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It's promoted by US but not necessarily directly funded by US.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Behind-the-blitz-Falun-Gong-practitioners-spend-14966684.php The image is likely hanging on your doorknob as you read this. And popping up on your Facebook feed. When you glance up from your phone, there it is again — on a billboard, a bus or the...

TMSC——Taiwan's last fortress

I'd say it will be a gradual process. But Xi's deadline of achieving a full well-off society by late 2020 is imminent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderately_prosperous_society

https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20191231/china-xinjiang-muslims-labor/dual/ KASHGAR, China — The order from Chinese officials was blunt and urgent. Villagers from Muslim minorities should be pushed into jobs, willing or not. Quotas would be set and families penalized if they refused to go along...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world/asia/china The head of US-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says he has been denied entry to Hong Kong, where he had been planning to launch a report focusing on China's "assault" on human rights. HRW said the move to block Kenneth Roth highlighted "vanishing...

am I the only one who thinks the 130mm gun is too small for its large size?

That's good news. their days are numbered.

let's wait and see.

you're overestimating the awareness of Asians. Asia is too divided to be considered as a whole. It's just irrelevant to most of them.

it's time for you to say something good about it @Viva_Viet

needless to say, vietmese internal infighting is more severe than people thought. the coruption and power struggle in vietmese communsit party and army is unparallel

just ignore the mosaic. it's not going to be transferred to drydock until June.