Phillip de Wet is an Associate Editor for Mail & Guardian, a South African online news publication. He writes about politics, society, economics, weird stuff, and the areas where all of these collide. Over the past decade and a half, he has also written about telecommunications, sexually transmitted diseases, property development, civil liberties, riot policing, mining, movies, the media, and UFOs, among other topics.
Park Gyun-hye said that Kim Jong-un is expected to take provocative actions in the future and it is important to deter them.
The Group of 20 biggest economies are concerned a stalled Chinese economy could spur further global sell-offs.
Genetically modified food faces zealous public opposition and is largely banned from the marketplace.
Splitting the bill is a relatively new idea to most Chinese, but now it's being embraced by cash-strapped young people.
I was invited to attend the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-fascist War and the Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese war this September, as a guest of a government that wanted me to represent friendship with the U.S. and other countries.
Jack Edelman, who is now 92 years old (pictured here in 1945), was born in New York and and attended City College there. Drafted into the U.S. Army in January 1943 while a senior, he was sent to China where he served in the Statistical Control Unit of the U.S. 14th Air Force, the successor to the privately organized Flying Tigers, at their headquarters in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. There, he kept records on U.S. bombing missions against Japanese positions.
After his marriage to Dorothy Edelman, he went into a family business that distributed building products for the Dow Chemical Company. He sold the business in 1978 and retired to California, where he continued to be actively engaged in China-related activities. He currently lives in Southern California.
As settlements see an influx of Tibetans, the transition is difficult for these nomad-turned-villagers.
Three years after Xi Jinping took control of China’s Communist Party and assumed the country’s leadership, he has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful people. But his tenure has also raised uncomfortable questions. Is he a reformer bent on curbing corruption at the highest levels of government? Or is he merely concerned with consolidating power within China’s opaque political system?
One of the world's largest militaries undergoes reforms to make it more effective.
