The Chinese government recently put out a video titled “If you wanted China to be changed like those (countries, such as Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Libya and Turkey), please walk all over us.” After presenting images of war-torn countries, the video argues that “behind all these things, we can see the deep shadow of the star-spangled […]
In China, there is a popular idiom that loosely translates as “black and white are reversed”; it means that facts are twisted and distorted to the point that black is white and vice versa. Recently, the Chinese government accused some brave lawyers of inciting subversion, and threw them in prison for the “crime” of defending […]
I grew up on a bike, literally, in “bicycle kingdom”– China. In 2008, my salary as a college lecturer was about US$180 a month. Living in a mammoth metropolis like Beijing, with six rings of highways encircling the city, I needed transportation to take my son to and from school and go to work three […]