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Biomass could play a key role in Canada’s transition to a carbon-neutral economy

Canada needs to move towards a carbon-neutral economy, and the biomass sectors have a key role to play in this transition.

Chinese company on US forced labour watchlist to buy Canadian gold mining firm

Zijin Gold’s parent company has been placed on US administration’s Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act Entity List

Letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer: Demand Closure of Residential Boarding Schools in Tibet on Visit to China

    The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer, KCB KC MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A United Kingdom Dear Prime Minister, On the eve of your first official visit to China, I am writing to urge you...

Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake Strikes China’s Western Gansu Province

An earthquake of magnitude of 5.5 struck near the rural county of Tewo in Gansu province in western China on Monday.

The Denial Has Collapsed: UN Confirms Forced Labor in Tibet and Xinjiang

Even the usually cautious United Nations has now issued an official statement suggesting Beijing may be guilty of “enslavement as a crime against humanity.” The post The Denial Has Collapsed: UN Confirms Forced Labor in Tibet and Xinjiang first...

Chinese Police in the Western Balkans: Cooperation or a Wider Influence Network?

This article is part of a series of articles authored by young, aspiring China scholars under the Future CHOICE initiative. Amid growing numbers of Chinese tourists flocking to the Western Balkans, China has stepped up… Source

Chinese asylum seeker who exposed rights abuses fights to stay in the US

Guan Heng sought asylum in the United States after exposing human rights abuses in his native China

Finland’s Prime Minister Should Confront Repression in China Visit

Click to expand Image Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo, in Brussels, Belgium, January 22, 2026.  © 2026 Michael Kappeler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s scheduled January 25-28 visit to China, accompanied by over 20 Finnish business leaders,...

Keir Starmer: China’s Residential Boarding Schools in Tibet

    The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer, KCB KC MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A United Kingdom Dear Prime Minister, On the eve of your first official visit to China, I am writing to urge you...

Humans could be to blame for rising bear attacks in rural communities

Experts say outmigration of younger residents is making the attacks more imminent and the solutions more challenging

UK approves China’s mega-embassy in London ahead of Starmer visit

Starmer's visit reportedly depended on the approval, Reuters reported citing British and Chinese officials. The mega-embassy will be nearly 10 times the size of China's current embassy in central London.

What a bear attack in a remote valley in Nepal tells us about the problem of aging rural communities

Lack of opportunities are driving young people away from rural villages, leaving fewer people to scare away the wildlife.

Chinese team restores legendary Tang dynasty ‘golden’ armour found in Tibetan tomb

“We will not leave the desert till we beat the foe, although in war our golden armour be outworn 100 times.” Wang Changling’s famous poem from China’s Tang dynasty depicts soldiers in golden armour battling on the desert frontiers....

China expected to get London embassy go-ahead this week after years of wrangling

Decision expected on Monday or Tuesday, potentially smoothing relations before Keir Starmer’s visit to ChinaWhy Chinese ‘mega embassy’ is not such a worry for British spiesA decision on China’s proposed mega embassy in London is expected on Monday or...

Thousands gather in San Francisco to celebrate Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir’s life

Joan Baez and John Mayer spoke on a makeshift stage in front of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium after four Buddhist monks opened the event with a prayer

Thousands of fans celebrate life of legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir in San Francisco

Thousands of mourners gathered at San Francisco’s Civic Center to celebrate Bob Weir, the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist who died last week at 78

How a group of nimbys could bring down China’s mega embassy plans

A decision on China’s application for a new embassy in London is expected in days, but those living next to the proposed site will be challenging it all the way, as Dan Haygarth

Nepal, Belt and Road to Big Brother: Surveillance Tech in China’s Sphere of Influence

Nepal imports technology from China—which is where data end up. The post Nepal, Belt and Road to Big Brother: Surveillance Tech in China’s Sphere of Influence first appeared on Bitter Winter.

CDT 2025 Year-End Roundup: CDTV Video Compilation

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and videos, sensitive...

Geopolitical football: Iran? Trump? How the game can stand strong in a fractured world

The 2026 World Cup is set to be a polarising event but, even if it will not be the first to be politically contentious, it will expose a growing uneaseFive months out from the World Cup the politics are...

​’How do you really tell the truth about this moment?’: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trump’s America

The Lincoln in the Bardo author is back with another metaphysical tale. He discusses Buddhism, partisan politics and the terrifying flight that changed his lifeLike his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker prize in 2017,...

America’s Maduro Operation and China’s Aksu Cave Operation: A Uyghur View

Can China capture Taiwan’s President as the U.S. did with Maduro? Maybe not, judging from Beijing’s “anti-terrorism” operation of 2015 in the Uyghur region. The post America’s Maduro Operation and China’s Aksu Cave Operation: A Uyghur View first appeared...

Kazakhstan/China: Drop Charges against Activists for Xinjiang Protests

Click to expand Image Family members and neighbor (far right) of Alimnur Turganbay, a Kazakhstan citizen detained in China, outside their house in Uzynagash village, located outside Almaty, Kazakhstan on August 4, 2025. © 2025 Chris Rickleton (London, January...

Canada and China: A half-century journey from Pierre Trudeau to Mark Carney

Canada was one of the first Western countries to recognize communist China, establishing ties in 1970 under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

China’s London super-embassy almost certain to get go-ahead next week

Approval shortly before Keir Starmer’s trip to Beijing would come despite widespread concern among Labour MPsA vast new Chinese embassy complex in east London is almost certain to be formally approved next week despite renewed worries among Labour MPs...