On a chilly winter morning in January 1990, I stepped off a night ferry onto a dockside in the city of Guangzhou. It was my first glimpse of China.
The air smelled sulphurous from burning coal. Outside the streets were a river of bicycles, ridden by workers in blue caps
and Mao jackets. Occasionally the bicycles parted for a wheezing bus or official car.
There is significant military activity. A logistical supply line forms an artery towards Ukraine's continued counteroffensive.
irannews.ru "The policies that Xi has applied - the re-education camps - it's about making them more Chinese than Uyghur," Mr McGregor says. "It's cultural genocide." In the spring of that year hundreds of thousands of students and workers occupied central Beijing to protest against corruption and rising prices, and demand reform. Behind the high walls of the Communist Party's leadership compound, Zhongnanhai, the party's top rung split. Moderates led by Zhao tried to use the protests to push further reform. Hardliners, led by Premier Li Peng, believed the students' goal was to overthrow the party, and wanted the protests quashed. Images of students wearing so-called "anti-cheating hats" during college exams have gone viral on social media in the Philip
pines, sparking amusement. Many responded by creating homemade contraptions out of
cardboard, egg boxes and other recycled materials. In July it was reported that Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, was going to make its algorithm more similar to TikTok's, rather than prioritising content from accounts that individuals were already following.
