UA POV: According to Censor, Ukraine's Minister of Social Policy has announced that about 22-25 million people are currently living in Ukrainian controlled territory, down from 41 million in 2022
The boy Putin hugged at Beihai Park in 2000 met him again. Peng Pai, now a senior engineer from Hunan, was inspired by that childhood encounter to pursue studies in Russia. “Mr President, you look just the same. I’ve gone from a little boy to a chubby middle-aged man,” Peng said
For the first time in history, a novel originally written in Mandarin wins the International Booker Prize - and, of course, it's written by an anti-communist lib who hates communism and the mainland, promotes Taiwanese identitarianism, and deals with the "complicated" Japanese colonialism.
China now is refusing import permits for the Nvidia RTX 5090 D v2, a GPU Nvidia exclusively builds for China. Semiconductor sovereignty is now a critical national priority for China.
By 2023, the transition to new energy vehicles in China led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths.