Populous eastern Asian nation which has undergone a myriad of changes over the years, but remains one of the oldest civilizations in the world.
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Did the grandson of John Rabe received medicine from China during the start of COVID?
There is a story widely reported by prominent newspapers and government outlets in China that Thomas Rabe, the grandson of John Rabe, asked China for medicine and medical supplies at the start of the COVID pandemic in April 2020 because there is a…
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Can cremating bodies cause black rain?
There is speculation that the mysterious black rain that Japan had a few months ago was from China cremating bodies, and in particular, mass cremations from coronavirus victims.
7 News: Coronavirus victims’ cremated bodies blamed on ominous black…
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Did China import 2 billion masks earlier this year to control Covid-19?
I'm wondering if there's not a typo in a recent paper that says that
to control the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government imported more than 2.0 billion facemasks between 24 Jan 2020 and 29 Feb 2020
(FWIW, the claim has been reproduced in the…
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Does this video show a Hong Kong protestor disabling a tear gas cannister with liquid nitrogen?
A recent tweet from @PatriotCoburn says:
Holy Shit the protesters in Hong Kong are grabbing the canisters of tear gas dropping it into liquid nitrogen and turning it into its harmless solid form.
It shows a video of a person in a gas mask and…
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Is China placing advertisements seeking to influence the upcoming American mid-term elections?
As stated here and in numerous other places,
“We found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming
2018 election, coming up in November, against my administration,”
Trump said in a speech to members of the UN Security…
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US trade deficit and the iPhone
CNBC has an article arguing that the way the US trade deficit with China is quite misleading, particularly as to the ultimate source of the deficit, using the iPhone as an example:
Some $70 billion of the U.S. trade deficit with China [out of $375…
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Did an elderly Chinese woman grow horns?
This video shows a news report of a woman in China who has apparently grown a horn at her old age.
Is this a deformity, or some sort of video trick? Is this a scientifically sound phenomenon?
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Do these satellite photos show mockups of US military vessels?
Many news outlets are claiming that China has built mockups of US carriers and destroyers in the dessert of Taklamakan (example 1, example 2, example 3).
I have some doubts on this, partly because the "carrier" doesn't look much like a carrier, and…
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The Arizona Election Recount 2021: Would Chinese paper prove there was an election fraud?
On Slate magazine, I read the following news [emphasis in bold, mine]:
On Wednesday, a member of the Arizona election audit team that has been heavily touted by former President Donald Trump revealed that its examination of the 2020 vote in…
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Did the US government accuse China of genocide against Uyghurs based on a single report?
Background:
CNN reported in January 2021 that
The US has officially determined that China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghur Muslims and ethnic and religious minority groups who live in the northwestern region of…
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Did a Chinese ethics textbook say Jesus stoned a woman to death?
I was reading this Reddit thread where the comments were casting doubt on whether this picture from this tweet was legitimate:
This image says:
From an account of John 8:3-11 in a law-and-ethics textbook published by the Chinese Communist Party.…
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Did the Chinese chairman Xi Jinping carry 100 kg of wheat and walk 5 km of mountain road without switching shoulders?
In the first episode Liang Jia He (Chinese: 梁家河篇) of the series Chairman Xi's Beginning (Chinese: 習總書記的初心), Xi said (in Mandarin Chinese)
因爲我那時候，抗 200 斤麥子，十里山路不換肩的
... because I, at that time, carried 200 jin of wheat, and walked 10 li of mountain…
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Does China force US companies to hand over technologies?
In June 2019, Bloomberg reported:
It’s been one of the most contentious fronts in the U.S.-China trade
war: so-called forced technology transfers. The term refers to ways in
which companies from the U.S., Europe or elsewhere that want to
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Did the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) accuse China of pressuring the WHO to suppress news about the Wuhan outbreak?
As reported on Arirang TV and in (more clear detail) on Taiwan News
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak,…
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Did a Chinese researcher sell his lab animals to street food vendors?
An opinion piece in the New York Post by social scientist and activist Steve W. Mosher claims:
Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory
animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on
them.
You…
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