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Image China's President Xi is not an emperor, he’s a planner [Lima Charlie News]
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China’s President Xi is not an emperor, he’s a planner

On February 25th, China’s official press agency, Xinhua News, announced a proposal by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress to make a series of amendments to the constitution. The most substantial of these changes would remove term limits, first introduced by Deng Xiaoping… Keep Reading

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Russia’s mercenaries and a campaign of misinformation

A little over a month ago, on February 7, U.S. forces reportedly engaged pro-Syrian government forces, including the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), and Russian security contractors near the banks of the Euphrates River, pounding the group for hours with drones, fighter jets, Apache helicopters, heavy-air… Keep Reading

Image In Mao’s shadow, Xi Jinping rules absolutely over China [Lima Charlie News]
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In Mao’s shadow, Xi Jinping rules absolutely over China

Xi Jinping will soon remove one of the last remaining obstacles to his presidency. Almost certain to be passed by China’s National People’s Congress this week, a legal reform that removes the term limitation on the office of the president, will effectively transform President Xi into… Keep Reading

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Cobalt mining, China, and the fight for Congo’s minerals

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is attempting to increase revenue from the 270% surge in cobalt prices in the last year by raising taxes on the metal five-fold. Foreign governments and corporations who benefit from lower cobalt prices have protested the tax hike. Congo… Keep Reading

Image China facing consequences of the one-child policy [Image: Zhou Yuwei, 1986]
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China facing consequences of one-child policy

Between 1949 and 1976, China’s population had almost doubled from 540 to 940 million. Naturally, the strain on resources was dramatic. Under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, in 1979 China took the drastic step of limiting population growth. The one-child policy – one child per… Keep Reading

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China’s largest cities drop in population after mass displacement

On Jan. 24, China officially announced that the population of China’s two largest cities, Beijing and Shanghai, decreased in 2017. This is partially due to long-standing aggressive spending programs on housing across Chinese provinces. China has been implementing plans to relocate 250 million people between… Keep Reading

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Totalitarianism Crushes Pollution in China

On Friday, the Chinese capital city of Beijing announced it will spend $3 billion to reduce air pollution, which is half a billion more than last year. This comes two days after the Beijing’s mayor, Chen Jining, announced that the city would step up environmental… Keep Reading

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U.S. training Army for tunnel combat in North Korea

Despite recent moves ostensibly aimed towards peaceful diplomacy with North Korea, the U.S. military has begun training to fight in tunnels. There is a warren of thousands of tunnels beneath North Korea’s surface that was built in the 1970s, so this new training is a… Keep Reading

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Turkey attempts to reset relations in Europe with meetings in France, Germany

This Friday and Saturday both Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu were in Europe, France and Germany respectively, attempting to improve strained relations with their European allies. Friday, Erdoğan met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Nominally, the meeting was an… Keep Reading

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