Macron lists priorities as France gets ready to take EU presidency
France will take the presidency of the Council of the European Union on Saturday and is aiming to make progress on many ambitious goals in the six-month term that will coincide with its presidential election. In a speech about the EU Council presidency early this month, French President Emmanuel Macron listed the priorities as defending European sovereignty, managing migration and reforming the border-free Schengen Area, building a new European model, advancing a carbon border tax, building a...
Macron lists priorities as France gets ready to take EU presidency
France will take the presidency of the Council of the European Union on Saturday and is aiming to make progress on many ambitious goals in the six-month term that will coincide with its presidential election. In a speech about the EU Council presidency early this month, French President Emmanuel Macron listed the priorities as defending European sovereignty, managing migration and reforming the border-free Schengen Area, building a new European model, advancing a carbon border tax, building a...
Law to comprehensively protect women's rights
The top legislature of China is reviewing the draft amendment to the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests from Monday to Friday. The amendment defines "discrimination against women", strengthens protection of women's personality rights and interests, and bans any subjugation of women, by nonviolent as well as physical abuse. The amendment focuses on problems related to women's rights and interests protection that have become apparent over the past nearly 30 yea...
Law to comprehensively protect women's rights
The top legislature of China is reviewing the draft amendment to the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests from Monday to Friday. The amendment defines "discrimination against women", strengthens protection of women's personality rights and interests, and bans any subjugation of women, by nonviolent as well as physical abuse. The amendment focuses on problems related to women's rights and interests protection that have become apparent over the past nearly 30 yea...
Livestreamers must not use tragedy to make money
A couple in Yichun, Jiangxi province, died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning while taking a bath on Dec 3, leaving behind eight children, all below 18, with the youngest being just 9 months old. As the news spread, many livestreamers rushed to the couple's house, not to help the orphaned children but to livestream their plight. So many livestreamers turned up during the couple's funeral on Dec 8 that one could see more cameras and smartphones than mourners in some of the photog...
Livestreamers must not use tragedy to make money
A couple in Yichun, Jiangxi province, died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning while taking a bath on Dec 3, leaving behind eight children, all below 18, with the youngest being just 9 months old. As the news spread, many livestreamers rushed to the couple's house, not to help the orphaned children but to livestream their plight. So many livestreamers turned up during the couple's funeral on Dec 8 that one could see more cameras and smartphones than mourners in some of the photog...
Tale of 'Uyghur Tribunal': Report fatally compromised by lack of objectivity and credibility
Whenever those who wish to diminish China and hinder its progress flex their muscles, they rely heavily on fake news. Down the ages, propagandists have recognized the value of the big lie. They know that if it can be repeated enough times some people may eventually come to believe it. The serial fantasist, Benedict Rogers, for example, who has always had a very loose relationship with the truth, is a prime example. Since he founded his London-based propaganda outfit, Hong Kong Watch, in 2017,...
Tale of 'Uyghur Tribunal': Report fatally compromised by lack of objectivity and credibility
Whenever those who wish to diminish China and hinder its progress flex their muscles, they rely heavily on fake news. Down the ages, propagandists have recognized the value of the big lie. They know that if it can be repeated enough times some people may eventually come to believe it. The serial fantasist, Benedict Rogers, for example, who has always had a very loose relationship with the truth, is a prime example. Since he founded his London-based propaganda outfit, Hong Kong Watch, in 2017,...
Buzzwords fine, but be yourself, everybody else is already taken
Which words best describe or represent the eventful and volatile year that has been 2021? The answer may differ from person to person depending on their experiences, observations and outlook on life. Yet we may more or less agree with list of "Top 10 Chinese Social Media Buzzwords of 2021", which the National Center for Monitoring and Research on Language Resources released on Monday. Compiled using intelligent language information processing techniques, along with manual extraction and selec...
Buzzwords fine, but be yourself, everybody else is already taken
Which words best describe or represent the eventful and volatile year that has been 2021? The answer may differ from person to person depending on their experiences, observations and outlook on life. Yet we may more or less agree with list of "Top 10 Chinese Social Media Buzzwords of 2021", which the National Center for Monitoring and Research on Language Resources released on Monday. Compiled using intelligent language information processing techniques, along with manual extraction and selec...
