From Turkey to Korea, People Share a Common Language Invented to Describe Millet Farming
PICTURED: A woman harvests millet in a field in Zaozhuang city, East China’s Shandong province, on Sept 7, 2016.…
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Apathetic Taiwanese Military Unready and Unwilling to Defend Against China
Story at a glance… Calls for Taiwan attendance at the UN increase tensions between the US and China. Despite…
Democrats Look to Give Exclusive War Powers on China to Biden After he Promises War Over Taiwan
PICTURED: “Between Chinas”: an ISS image of the Taiwan Strait at 110 miles width. PC: Stuart Rankin. CC 3.0.…
Here’s What We Learned from the Moon Rocks China Recently Brought Back on Chang’e-5
PICTURED: The Chang’e-5 return module sits on the snow-covered ground in Inner Mongolia, smoldering from its reentry into Earth’s…
CIA to Create “China Mission Center” to Coordinate Efforts of an Increasingly Hostile U.S.
LANGLY, Virginia. October 7th, 2021. In a statement, CIA Director William Burns announced the CIA would form a China…
When The Ivory Trade Was Banned, They Came for Giant Clam Shells
Story at a glance… Giant clams have been decimated as poachers harvest their shells for illegal trafficking. The shells…
House Armed Services Committee Approves $24 Billion for a “Space National Guard”
In an already bloated military defense budget, the House Committee on Armed Forces recently marked up the National Defense…
China’s Rover Videotapes Itself Driving on Mars: a World’s First
Like NASA which landed its fifth Martian rover in February, China’s Zhurong rover touched down on the Red Planet…
China Becomes 2nd Nation to Operate on Mars Promising More Eyes and More Discoveries
PICTURED: A rendition of the Zhurong rover and landing craft on Mars. Photo credit: Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA)…
‘America is Back’ Is Equal To or Greater than ‘Make America Great Again’
WASHINGTON D.C., March 30th, 2021. In the span of two days, any credibility that the United States will commit…
UK Announce Increase of Nuclear Stockpile While Pentagon Predicts the Same in China
December, 2016. PICTURED: Now-Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks at Chatham House when he was Sec. of State for Foreign…
Rarest-of-the-Rarest Dinosaur Fossil is a Cretaceous Era Still Life of Oviraptor and 24 Eggs
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the latest fossil in what could be described as a 4-decade-long conveyor…
China Russia Moon Research Base Welcomes International Collaboration
PICTURED: Artist’s concept of the ILRS. Photo credit: CAST. Published. The directors of Roscosmos, the Russian national aerospace agency,…
China Launch Chang’e-5 to Bring Back First Lunar Geology Samples in 45 Years
PICTURED: The Chang’e-4 lunar lander gathers information from the far side of the moon. The Chang’e-5 lander which was…
State Department Green Lights Another Arms Sale to Taiwan Hoping China Will Respond
PICTURED: A CATM-84K Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), being mounted on an aircraft in an American airbase on…
Reagan-Era Cables on Taiwan Show How the U.S. Continues to ‘Lose’ China
August 31st, 2020. A batch of declassified Ronald Reagan-era cables show how America’s policy towards selling arms to Taiwan…
Russia and U.S. Must Reduce Nuclear Arms to Chinese Levels for Beijing to Join Arms Control Agreements
PICTURED: Fu Cong, Director‐General of the Department of Arms Control of Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the People’s Republic…
New 2021 Defense Budget Standouts – The Indo-Pacific and Hypersonic Missiles
PICTURED: The X-51 Waverider prototype hypersonic glide missile. The latest National Defense Authorization (NDA) for 2021 contains a lot…
India – China Border Clashes Deadliest Confrontation Since 1975
PICTURED: The Doda River in the disputed Landakh Province, Kashmir. LADAKH, Kashmir, India. Monday June 15th, 2020. Clashes between…
Banning the Wildlife Trade Could be Good News for Certain Animals, and a Death Sentence for Millions of Humans
Kenya. January 2019. PICTURED: Black rhino in Masai Mara’s green season. Photo credit: Kandukuru Nagarjun. CC 2.0 After research…