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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Does Beijing still see natural sunrises?
In Januari 2014, this article reported that:
Over the weekend, a story that originated on the smut-ridden UK-based
Daily Mail went viral among major media outlets across the world.
Time, CBS, and the Huffington Post were among the dozens of…
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Do Florida woods cockroaches (aka Palmetto bugs) commonly sell for ~US$80/kg in China?
According to this article on Yahoo news, citing a similar South China Morning Post article, Yuan Meixia bought her initial stock of 20kg of cockroaches for around US$1600:
Yuan, a pharmacy employee, was inspired to raise roaches after seeing
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Is (or was) the air pollution in Beijing worse than "what the first responders at ground zero on 9/11 were breathing"?
...I'd rather spend a week in Chernobyl (maybe not right now) than say a week in Beijing when the air quality is literally so bad it's worse than what the first responders at ground zero on 9/11 were breathing...
We solved nuclear waste decades…
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Is this alleged leak of a 2015 Chinese paper evidence that COVID-19 is an accidentally released bioweapon?
While searching around on the news today, I found this article, which alleges that a Chinese paper published in 2015, titled "The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons", details how coronaviruses can be…
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Did Pakistan ask China to invade India and vice versa in 1962 and in 1999?
I was watching this widely seen (Urdu) video, Pakistani journalist Imran Khan claims:
In 1962:
China invited Pakistan to invade India (as China attacked India).
The USA assured Pakistan that they will take the Pakistan's land dispute with India…
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Has China not published an official number of Covid-19 tests performed in its territory?
Taiwan’s vice president Chen Chien-jen claimed in a May 8 interview with France24 (around 3:40) that they cannot find the official number of Covid-19 tests performed in China... the implication being obviously that such [official] numbers aren't…
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Were Trump 2020 campaign banners made in China?
This 2018 Reuters story on reuters.com says:
The red, white and blue banners for U.S. President Donald Trump’s
second-term campaign are ready to ship, emblazoned with the words
“Keep America Great!”
But they are made in eastern China and soon…
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Are Chinese wet markets selling bat again?
I read that China banned consumption of wild life a few weeks ago.
A strict ban on the consumption and farming of wild animals is being rolled out across China in the wake of the deadly coronavirus epidemic, which is believed to have started at a…
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Are HIV positive couples in China denied assisted reproduction methods?
In the following article on Xinhuanet, it is claimed that HIV carriers are not allowed access to assisted reproduction in China.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/21/c_137762633.htm
As HIV carriers are not allowed to have assisted…
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Are Chinese authorities jailing, harassing, and torturing legal activists?
Reports suggest the authorities are not just jailing and harassing legal practitioners and their relatives, but also subjecting some of them to appalling torture.
The Economist | Champions chained: China’s crushing of independent lawyers is a blow…
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Did China say that war with the US over the South China Sea dispute is now a "reality"?
According to this article from the Daily Star, published on the 29th of January, 2017,
CHINA has declared war with the US is now a “reality” as military
commanders rallied their forces to be ready for total conflict as
early as “tonight”.
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Are sharks primarily hunted for Chinese cuisine?
In Captain Paul Watson: Fear and Loathing of Sharks in Western Australia, Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson (warning: Islamophobic content elsewhere in the article) says
On the other hand, we humans slaughter some 70 million sharks annually
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Did China receive blue prints of the IAI Lavi jet from Israel?
On the Internet, it is frequently found that the Chinese J-10 fighter jet evolved from the Israeli IAI Lavi project in that either China obtained the blueprints or received direct technical assistance from Israel regarding this project.
Why China…
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Does China's official position reject the "wet market origin theory" of COVID?
In an episode of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar says,
Even the Chinese don't try and push [...] the wet market theory. Their theory is basically like oh it was on some goods and it made it here. source
And then again here,
In May of 2020…
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Is Chinese government using Huawei to spy on the USA and the West?
A while ago Trump said that the Chinese government uses Chinese tech giant Huawei's telecom network and equipment to spy on the USA and the West.
Secretary of state Pompeo also said that Chinse made chips have backdoors and these backdoors enable…
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