In the year 1683, two consequential battles took place respectively in the West and East. In the wake of a siege-breaking bloodbath outside Vienna, King Jan III Sobieski of Poland wrote to his queen-consort about how his winged hussars had saved Christendom from the invincible Ottoman janissary. Thousands of miles away in the high-walled Forbidden […]

On Oct. 16, Xi Jinping delivered a report to the landmark 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and a political catchphrase less heard before carried noticeable weight in his speech, “Chinese modernization” or “Chinese path to modernization.” (both in Chinese 中国式现代化) He outlined the future CPC’s task as such: “From this day

Upon the genesis of the United Nations, Harry Truman envisioned a “durable world order” in which the UN would be the linchpin for global governance, and he vowed to position the support of this overarching institution as the “Point One of the U.S. foreign policy.” Seven decades later, however, America has grown to resent the world order it helped create. Donald Trump

Last week, China rolled out a once-in-a-decade overarching plan for the national road network. The new roadmap charted another 60,000 km by 2035 on top of the 400,000 km outlined in the previous 2013 edition. It explains how China annually spends 2.4% of its GDP on road construction. To put it in perspective, China’s yearly defense budget, often portrayed as gargantuan

Last week, the US Boeing Company took a huge blow by losing China’s biggest civil aviation order to its European nemesis Airbus. The transaction order of the century, placed by China’s three leading airlines, contains 292 Airbus A320 NEO passenger aircraft with a total worth of over 37 billion U.S. dollars. The US aviation giant

“Do not arbitrarily change old place names,” this line jumped out from the 26th meeting of the central commission for deepening overall reform on June 22. Chairing the meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee” to “ensure solid overall planning and avert unregulated and disorderly acts.”

Elegance never goes out of style – European villa kitchenEuropean style refers to the unique architectural style in Europe. According to different periods, it has derived French Baroque style, neoclassical style, Nordic style, Jane European style, etc. The previous article has introduced in detail the overall style and decoration points of European-style villa decoration. This

7 details you must pay attention to when decorating your bathroomThere are many things to pay attention to when decorating a new house. It is indeed easy for people to overlook the toilet area. They think that there is a pit to solve internal emergencies and a bathing area to take a bath. But is

Forty-five years ago today, Deng Xiaoping held a watershed meeting that fired the starting pistol on China’s embrace of the market economy and ushered in four decades of economic rise. Known as the third plenary session of the 11th CPC (Communist Party of China) Central Committee, it made the usually-once-in-five-year “third plenary sessions” a much-anticipated

In 1950, one year after the People’s Republic of China was born, then the US Secretary of State Dean Acheson for the first time outlined America’s “defensive perimeter” in the post-WWII Asia. It was a line running through the Aleutians, Japan, the Ryukyus, and the Philippines. Taiwan was not part of it. Contrary to the crusading mission