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How to trigger 1.4 billion Chinese people with five words?

One of China's leading comedy production companies received a two billion US dollar fine because of a distasteful joke made by one of its comedians.

Why was China never wiped out like all the other ancient civilizations?

China was able to rise and fall many times whereas the ancient Egyptian civilization, the Roman Empire, and the Great British Empire are all “dead”. Why China will not collapse? In this video, Prof. W...

GenZ in China and US: From ‘Quiet Quitting” to “Lying Flat” | OVERLAP

The term "quiet quitting" has taken social media by storm in both China and the US and it is particularly favored by the Gen Z in the workplace. How does "quite quitting", or "Lying flat" as it is cal...

How can China’s ‘Airstrike’ convert desert to forest? | THRESHOLD

To address a growing global food crisis, scientists have developed an aerial seeding technology inspired by the Erodium plant which uses self-drilling seed carriers that mimic the plant's corkscrew-li...

The China-Made “Terminator 2” robot has really broken out of jail! | THRESHOLD

Chinese scientists develop shape-shifting robot inspired by T-1000 from Terminator. The material of it can easily switch between rigid & fluidic states through the alternating magnetic fields combine...

Did China just launched an artificial sun to the sky? | THRESHOLD

The scientific race for the power of the stars is not only heating up, it's positively ablaze.

Green tech (literally): photosynthesis in human body | THRESHOLD

Scientists have developed a way to give human cells the ability to photosynthesize like plants, which could be a groundbreaking anti-aging treatment. A team led by Prof. Fan Shunwu extracted tiny sacs...

Leaders Line Up to Visit Beijing Instead of D.C. | Speak Softly

Within a week, leaders from four countries paid a visit to the re-elected General Secretary Xi. Is it a signal of the world drifting away from the old order?