Technological fun for the home
Gadget maker Cerevo has taken advantage of the hype surrounding this month's release of the Hollywood version of "Ghost in the Shell" by producing a 1/8 scale robot model of the original anime's AI combat-vehicle Tachikoma.
China will prosecute a former high ranking official in its secret police for suspected bribery, the state prosecutor said on Monday, taking a step that will almost certainly result in a conviction. Ma Jian, once a vice minister at China's Ministry of State Security, is ...
Gadgets and apps to help get up in the morning and enjoy the sky at night
King Jim provides a useful buzz in the ear Dozing off on trains is a common phenomenon in Japan, but you can't really set a noisy alarm to wake you up before your stop. Stationery and electronic goods company King Jim has taken on that ...
A tricky Edward Snowden moment for China
The Panama Papers have cast an unwelcome spotlight on the financial affairs of China's elite.
The return of fear-based governance in China
With China's international influence growing by the day, the revival of totalitarian scare tactics there has far-reaching — and deeply unsettling — implications for Asia and the world.
The CCP's daunting institutional challenges
China's leaders must cope with an asymmetry between what they can deliver and what consumers demand.
Chinese paper says West is trying to 'falsify' history of Communist Party, military
Enemy forces in the West are trying to "falsify" the history of China's ruling Communist Party and its military and force a "color revolution" on troops who are too susceptible to outside influences, the military's official newspaper said Tuesday. President Xi Jinping has repeatedly reminded ...
The grand parade in the center of Beijing on Sept. 3 to commemorate the end of World War II in China highlighted two contradictory narratives, both immensely important for understanding the country's future path.
Chinese Communist Party's great leap backward
Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign was supposed to signify a shift toward a more transparent system based on the rule of law, but the officials who have been purged so far have been Xi's political adversaries. Xi appears to be pulling China backward ...
Japan's war crimes still make paper-selling headlines in China, 69 years after WWII
On Aug. 15, 1945, at precisely noon, Emperor Hirohito took to the airwaves to announce the unconditional surrender of Japan's military to Allied Forces. The radio broadcast in Japan signaled the end of World War II and years of bloodshed. For most of the world, the ...
Twenty-five years after the protests at Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Communist Party continues to try to erase the memory of a movement that called for elimination of corruption, government accountability, freedom of speech and expansion of workers' rights.
What really happened at Tiananmen?
In recent years the Tiananmen Square "massacre" story has taken something of a beating as people in the square that night, including a Spanish TV unit, have emerged to tell us that there was no massacre in the square.
