China
Historic Speech in Shanghai: Xi Jinping Upholds Historical Progress
Belief in historical progress was once abundant in the western world. In fact, some of the uglier crimes of western colonialism were justified in the name of progress. Colonizers and imperialists often claimed to be more advanced than those they repressed and brutalized...
OBOR Five Years Later: Some Results and New Alternatives
Five years have passed since October 2013, when China unveiled its large scale and comprehensive OBOR project, which held the promise of quite a few benefits to its numerous participants for mutual trade and economic ties, financial hubs, infrastructure (port construction, high speed auto and railways, pipelines, tourist...
China's Hong Kong Mega Bridge Riles Former Colonialists
Officially called the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, the 55 kilometre-long bridge-tunnel is an engineering marvel physically connecting Hong Kong and Macau to China's mainland. Beyond providing links to the mainland, the bridge helps form a wider...
