Asia

A “Buddha-like lifestyle,” or “fo xi” in Mandarin Chinese, is a term coined around 2017 that describes a life philosophy that more and more Chinese youths are adopting: having no desires, being indifferent, not ambitious […]

China recently purchased technology that can monitor students’ attention levels on a mass scale. Focus 1 headbands, developed by U.S. startup BrainCo, purport to monitor concentration by reading and translating brain signals. BrainCo has signed […]

At a high-level meeting of senior Chinese Communist Party officials held in Beijing, Chinese leader Xi Jinping gave an opening speech on Jan. 21 that hinted at the severity of China’s economic downturn. “Improve the […]

Commentary “Peace, order, and good government.” Sounds familiar to Canadians, eh? Indeed, such language is embedded in the Canadian constitution. It is implemented by representative democracy, scrupulous adherence to the rule of law, and an […]

Embattled Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has been able to expand its business internationally despite concerns about the security of its equipment that many governments around the world have voiced. Huawei successfully transformed from a small […]

There is no need to pay exorbitant airfares to visit famous landmarks worldwide when you live in China and have them all in your own backyard. Thanks to China’s ‘duplitecture’ (duplicated architecture), half of Europe […]

Central planning, however efficient it may seem to outsiders, always results in a tremendous misallocation of labor, capital, and resources. As a result, it invariably leads to economic stagnation and collapse. Take China’s misadventures in […]

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently said that “times of austerity” are ahead for the country. His warning follows a similar one by the regime’s finance minister, and analysts say that such talk of belt-tightening is […]

Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, in a rare public appearance following the arrest of his daughter in Canada, said his company has never spied for the Chinese government, the Financial Times reported. “No law in China requires […]

Commentary The number “9” has always had special meaning for the Chinese. It’s the biggest single-digit number, and the Chinese have always believed that when something reaches the extreme, it will go in the opposite […]