A day trip to the Summer Palace 頤和園 in BeiJing

At the foot of the Western Hills in west BeiJing lies the large and beautiful Botanical Gardens ... Also well worth a visit is the nearby XiangShan Park, which is actually on the slopes of the Western Hills, with many scenic spots and quite a climb !

North east Beijing. An area of disused factories born again as galleries, cafes, bookshops, boutiques ...

Mount SiGuNiang, in SiChuan province, is famous for its beautiful scenery. The surrounding area is reputed to be the "Oriental Alps". Mount SiGuNiang National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park comprises Mount SiGuNiang and the surrounding three valleys, namely ChangPing Valley (长坪沟), HaiZi Valley (海子沟) and ShuangQiao Valley (双桥沟), covering an area of 2,000 square kilometers. Mount Siguniang

Bonus film - China Celebrates its Rise from Humiliated Colony to Global Power with The New Atlas ...

With Garland Nixon ... Nordstream : The sheep (Germany, 'allies') spends it's whole life scared of wolves only to be eaten by the shepherd (the US).

'An Outrage' : House passes largest military budget in generations - with Democracy Now / William Hartung ... Preparing you for war - with The New Atlas ... On the phony 'Uyghur Tribunal', with The New Atlas ... On the China - Laos high speed railway ... On the new national highway in Cambodia ... Is Russia really planning a war in Ukraine - or is Washington? - with The Grayzone and Scott Ritter ... With YChina ... With Martin Jacques talking with Jie Qiong ... On 'Russian aggression' ... On Nicaragua ... China 2021 review - with Pascal Coppens ... With Martin Jacques ... The critical need for independent media - with Glenn Greenwald ... 'Who rules America? The dangerous concentration of power and wealth in the American elite', with George Domhoff (and this is from the late sixties); the reality behind 'democracy'. Don't miss it ...

Provincial capital of GuangDong.

An interesting interview that looks into Western propaganda ... Bonus film - a talk by professor Kishore Mahbubani ...

With Einar Tangen ...

A film by Pryadko Artem and Shishkovski Dmitry