The best news of the week was that three Chinese astronauts made it to the new fledging space station orbiting the Earth, but there was lots of stuff on the other side of the ledger, which w... Read more
Chess and Go are both games of strategy and risk and sometimes the play develops slowly and sometimes there are sudden developments which redefine the whole board. This week includes three p... Read more
Having started out slowly on vaccinations, and focusing instead on simple control of virus spread, China has now moved inoculations into high gear just as small outbursts of infections appea... Read more
The sense of a parting of the ways just gets stronger all the time—two worlds being created, China on one side, the West on the other. Let us look at just some of the evidence for the trend... Read more
A relatively quiet week in China news, but we’ll start with space. Two steps forward, one step back perhaps, but China is seriously making progress. We are in a “Mars access” window right no... Read more
