Planet Mick.
China So here we are heading into July 2021 and much of our Irish summer so far has been dismal. I gave up on hope for our Irish weather and built myself a greenhouse. Today I was planting my tomatoes as I thought about China and grumbled about the price of wood to build said greenhouse. […]
The crackdown continues.
The EU worked to ensure that China was not openly criticised at the recent G7 summit for using slave labour in Xinjiang. “EU leaders blocked efforts to name and shame Beijing for using slave labour,” the Times reports. It says that Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, along with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Ursula von […]
United States sources have reportedly revealed the identity of the Chinese defector who has been at the centre of revelations regarding what took place at the Wuhan virology institute. His information has, as previously reported, re-opened the investigation into the origin of Covid 19. The information comes from a tweet by another defector, Han Lianchao, […]
Bombshell?
Whilst 2016 saw 18 million babies born in China, 2020 saw only 12 million.
On March 4, 2010, The Economist ran one of its most memorable covers: a completely black page, except for a pair of tiny pink shoes with frilly bows the bottom. The headline was “Gendercide: what happened to 100 million baby girls?” Good question. The answer is that they were aborted or killed, mainly in China and India, […]
Lai, who is estimated to be worth over $1bn, recently had his assets frozen by Chinese-aligned Hong Kong authorities.
China and Musk rattle the market.
Contrary to what many scholars expected back in January 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic did not become China’s Chernobyl moment. Instead, more than a year later, the world has fallen into a collective amnesia that is familiar to Chinese citizens. As Kai Strittmatter pointed out in his book We Have Been Harmonized (2020), although the Chinese government’s cover […]
On April 28, 2021, the daily newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, the People’s Daily, introduced to its readers the recently published book “Questions and Answers on the Study of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想学习问答), published by the Central Propaganda Department of the CCP. It is yet another book whose study will be […]