Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Fungi collected by a Chinese mycologist in the first half of the 20th century and saved from certain destruction during WW II are coming home to China after a decades-long sojourn at an Ivy League University. From AP: Some 1,700...
Read MoreChina may soon own 49 percent of Kazakhstan’s fourth largest oil producer. From AP via The Los Angeles Times: CNPC’s proposed purchase of the stake in MangistauMunaiGaz would consolidate Chinese energy interests in...
Read MoreLiu Xiang, China’s great hurdling hope at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was at the track recently, but he wasn’t competing. From The Wall Street Journal: This was Mr. Liu’s second public appearance since returning...
Read MoreAn older Hui Muslim man rides his scooter in Bayan Hot, Inner Mongolia. By Antonis SHEN.
Read MoreBloomberg reports that China may support a draft proposal in the United Nations that would deter North Korea from launching missiles: “Before the launch they were not ready to accept a resolution, but now they could do so,”...
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