India’s largest dam planned to counter China faces Indigenous revolt
The Indigenous people of India’s remote eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh are protesting a massive dam planned to counter China’s colossal upstream hydropower project. They tell Al Jazeera the mega dam threatens their ancestral lands, culture and livelihoods.
On Monday night, as Kylian Mbappé attended the Ballon d’Or ceremony in London, he also became the centre of a major controversy on Chinese social media. It is illegal to “insult” or “slander” Communist Party martyrs and war heroes in China A portrait of Mao overlooks Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, a symbol of how central he is in the modern Chinese imagination.
Reactors could revolutionise moon exploration, providing energy for bases and mining, but risks of contamination remain.
Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has backed Kylian Mbappé over the controversy surrounding the forward’s remarks about China, saying both the player and the club responded with class and had done what was required to address the issue. Mourinho said he felt represented by the reactions of Mbappé and Real Madrid, adding that the club
US intelligence officials believe a Chinese businesswoman was gathering information for Beijing on the US chip-making giant, The New York Times reports.
The US Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it will vote on November 19 on a proposal to ban China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, and other IP-enabled service providers from direct access. The FCC has previously barred China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom from providing international telecommunications services to the United States.
The unprecedented number of empty seats at the fifth plenum – a symbol of expulsions – serve as a symbol for the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping China expelled a record number of officials from the Chinese Communist party (CCP) as it concluded a major political gathering, which saw an unprecedented number of empty seats indicating the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping. A record 33 members were expelled at this week’s fifth plenum, a gathering of top officials that takes place roughly once a year.