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BEIJING--Airport scanners at office entrances, road closures for large-scale midnight rehearsals, drones banned, guards stationed 24/7 on all overpasses: Beijing has effectively paralyzed its urban ...
News China » Beijing » History: Rewriting world history puts China’s image and ‘cultural security’ at risk: party journal
Article warns that claims ancient Greece was a hoax or the Industrial Revolution originated in China have already hurt the country's image Radically rewriting world and Chinese history without solid ...
News China » Beijing » History: China, Taiwan clash over history, Beijing says can't 'invade' what is already its territory
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, ...
News China » Beijing » History: How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon
The Middle East has oil, China has rare-earth elements,” Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping declared in the early 1990s. This quote has been repeated a lot lately as Beijing has used its near monopoly on ...
News China » Beijing » History: When Beijing Was China’s Most International City
Toward the end of the 13th century, while a guest in the court of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo was stunned by the beautiful grassland enclosed in the imperial palace, which teemed with fruit trees and ...
News China » Beijing » History: Why Chinese media says US historians are giving ‘ammunition’ to separatists
As ethnic issues grow ever more sensitive, Beijing is alleging the New Qing History movement seeks to fracture the nation.
News China » Beijing » History: The complicated history of American presidents visiting China
President Donald Trump is heading to Beijing at a time when questions about trade, sanctions and Taiwan — on top of the war in Iran — loom large in the U.S.-China relationship. But presidential trips ...
News China » Beijing » History: Taiwan deserves freedom from Beijing’s revisionist history
In the run-up to the meeting this [May] in Beijing between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping, the Chinese side has been increasing the volume of its message that Taiwan has “always belonged to China.” ...
News China » Beijing » History: What the History of China-Russia Relations May Tell Us About Their Future
As China’s history shows, no matter if it is Tsarist, Bolshevik, Soviet, or “democratic,” Russia’s strategic and geopolitical logic guiding its behavior remain unchanged. In China’s case, history is ...
News China » Beijing » History: Once shaped by court rituals, China’s imperial cuisine lives on today
Imperial cuisine encompasses the meals emperors ate daily and the feasts their courts held throughout the year. Each had its own rituals. Drinking milk tea, for instance, was an important first step ...
News China » Beijing » History: History, triumph and trauma to take centre stage at China's WW2 military parade
BEIJING (Reuters) -Airport scanners at office entrances, road closures for large-scale midnight rehearsals, drones banned, guards stationed 24/7 on all overpasses: Beijing has effectively paralysed ...