The beautiful ShaXi ancient town, YunNan province

Chinese technology company Tencent, the driving power behind instant messaging apps WeChat and QQ, is planning to build an entire mini-city off the banks of the Pearl River in ShenZhen, where the company has its headquarters.

With Walk East ...

MiuMiu sings three different vocal styles here ... counter point, harmony, alternate lead ... awesome; and a great song ... The original video by JoySide - Dong Dong Dong ... Full album version ...

Don't miss it. This is the key. With Ben Norton and Danny Haiphong ... And Richard Wolff ... With BreakThrough News and Yanis Varoufakis ... With Inside China Business ..

It comes down to this - do they want Taiwan to remain in the status quo (semi-independence) with good relations with the rest of China, - or - does it want to become increasingly a US (and Japan) puppet regime / missile base (DPP) - (that would be suicide) ? If the former, it makes sense to back the KMT and not waste the vote on a third party that cannot win. The future of Taiwan, and its prosperity, lies with closer ties with China, not war. With Brian Berletic / The New Atlas ... With Danny Haiphong and George Galloway (jump to 1 hour 11 min.s for the Taiwan discussion) ... With David Oualaalou ...

With CostiTravel ...

The town 'where nobody is a stranger' ...

KāiFēng was once the capital of the Song dynasty, and is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China. Located along the southern bank of the Yellow River, it borders the provincial capital of ZhengZhou to the west.

With Dr. May-yi Shaw. Meet the pioneers of the Belt and Road Initiative ...