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Hong Kong’s Palace Museum opens July 2
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

In 1924, thirteen years after the end of the Qing Dynasty, the expulsion from the Forbidden City of Puyi, China’s last emperor, raised questions about the purpose of the imperial palace. With no one in residence, some wanted to destroy the ...

More trouble ahead

“Our steps to implement the Uighur Law on time and on a tight schedule is a sign of this administration’s…
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

Robert Silvers, an undersecretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, comments on new rules that came into force from Tuesday blocking imports from China’s Xinjiang region. The assumption, notes the Wall Street Journal, is that goods ...

Chen Zhenwei

Chen Zhenwei
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

Born in 1992 in Huizhou in Guangdong province, ballet dancer Chen Zhenwei’s love for dance began in kindergarten. His parents had hoped for him to go to college and get a high-paying job, but from the age of 11 he spent six years training at ...

From another planet

“We may not be able to survive on Earth one day. We’ll need the help of alien civilisations.”
Jun 17, 2022 (WiC 589)

Zhang Tongjie, chief scientist at the extraterrestrial research team at Beijing Normal University, responds to reports that the gigantic FAST radio telescope in Guizhou has picked up radio signals that could come from aliens. In previous ...

Ambassador Gu

“Beautiful example of globalism”
Jun 17, 2022 (WiC 589)

‘Half-and-half’ unites or divides. At least, that seems to be the case for Eileen Gu, or Gu Ailing, the double Olympic gold medallist born in California to a Chinese mother, whose goal of ‘using winter sport to connect people’ has often ...

Milking it

Messi scores with two Chinese dairy giants
Jun 17, 2022 (WiC 589)

Can Lionel Messi inspire Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar later this year? With his 35th birthday coming this month, Messi likely won’t get another chance to emulate his idol Diego Maradona, who led the national team to lift the trophy in ...

Stating his position

“We are mislabelled by some people or some media saying we are [a] pro-China party. It’s totally wrong”
Jun 10, 2022 (WiC 588)

Eric Chu, chairman of Taiwan’s opposition party the KMT (Kuomintang), outlines his party’s allegiances in Washington during an 11-day tour of the US. He continued: “We are [a] pro-US party, forever. Since we inaugurated the party… in ...

On the run

NFT sneakers (briefly) arrive in China
Jun 10, 2022 (WiC 588)

In late May Chinese venture capitalist Zhu Xiaohu – an early backer of Didi Chuxing, Ele.me, and Ofo – posted on WeChat that he had just purchased a pair of NFT sneakers from StepN, a lifestyle app. “I finally bought a pair of BSC ...

Wang Xinling

Wang Xinling
Jun 10, 2022 (WiC 588)

Born in 1982 in Hsinchu in Taiwan, Wang Xinling did not have an easy childhood. Her parents divorced when she was 10 and Wang had to take care of her mother, who was going through depression, as well as raise her younger brother. In 1998 she was ...

 Wang’s warning

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi responds to a major speech by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, which declared that…
Jun 3, 2022 (WiC 587)

“If the US blindly defines China-US relations in terms of great power competition and takes a ‘you lose, I win’ approach to policy, it will only push China and the US into confrontation and conflict, and push the world into division and ...

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