POLITICS
Unlike most major economies, Japan has spent much of the 21st century adhering to a doctrine of extremely low interest rates — so low that since 2016, they were actually negative. That changed on Tuesday, March 19, when the Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced the country’s first interest rate hike
France Fines Google, Facebook $230 Million Over ‘Dark Pattern’ Privacy Violation Schemes
Big tech behemoths Google and Meta have been exposed by France’s data protection agency CNIL for employing...
Blaming ‘Hostile Forces’, North Korea Says It Won’t Send an Olympic Team to Beijing
The North Korean regime is sitting out the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing next month, citing condemnation...
Taiwan Should Destroy its Semiconductor Industry if Beijing Invades: US Study
A paper published in November by the U.S. Army War College has been gaining a lot of attention to the...
China Conducts Mass Testing in Tianjin After Omicron Cases Pop Up
The Chinese port city of Tianjin is the latest to get hit by a COVID-19 outbreak. After over 20 cases...
Scammers Stealing Millions From NFT Investors
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) are the latest items to become a sought-after asset class. An NFT is a non-interchangeable...
Residents in Locked-Down Xi’an Made to Say ‘Thank You, Communist Party’ When Receiving Food
The city of Xi'an in China’s Shaanxi Province has been under a citywide lockdown since Dec. 23, 2021....
China Announces It May Deploy Troops to Support Kazakh Government Amidst Unrest
In order to help curb widespread civil unrest, People’s Republic of China (PRC) foreign minister Wang...
Lithuanian MP Proclaims Country’s Support for Taiwan
On Jan. 4, an MP of the Lithuanian government, Gitanas Nausėda, claimed that his country supports the...
MI6 Chief Responds to Bizarre James Bond Spoof Clip From Chinese News Agency
In a rare occurrence, MI6 Chief Richard Moore has responded to a tweet from China Xinhua News. The tweet...