Day: September 20, 2022

At around 3:48 p.m. on September 16, a serious fire broke out at the China Telecom building in Furong District of Changsha City, Hunan Province. The video shows smoke rolling out, the whole building covered by a huge fire, with items that are on fire constantly falling down and the sound of explosions ringing out. According to public information, the China Telecom Building, also known as the Lotus Garden Building, which was completed in 2000, was the first building in Changsha to exceed 200 meters tall with

The United Nations ( UN ) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, waited till the 11th hour to release a report on China’s alleged crimes in Xinjiang, a region where the majority of China’s ethnic Uyghurs, many of whom are Muslim, live. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about the politics behind the report’s release, the backlash from the report, and the UN’s relationship with China.

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According to Bloomberg on September 18, Hong Kong forecasted a financial deficit of almost twice the amount projected. The economic downturn further declines revenue and the COVID pandemic increases government expenditure.

On September 15 and 16, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping met with Russian President Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan. This was his first visit abroad since January 2020. The meeting between the two is particularly notable because of tensions with the West over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the CCP’s military harassment of Taiwan. The CCP will hold its 20th National Congress on October 16th. Why is Xi Jinping rushing to Central Asia ahead of such a critical meet

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Hongkongers queued up for hours to sign a book of remembrance at the UK consulate for Queen Elizabeth II. Before Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, the Queen was Hong Kong’s reigning monarch. While many Hongkongers disliked British rule, it pales in comparison to their dislike of the CCP, which has systematically dismantled their freedoms, legal system and independent media since Hong Kong’s national security law was passed in 2020. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about how the Queen i