This toilet is 2,400 years old!!! The broken parts of the toilet, as well as a bent flush pipe, were already unearthed last summer by a research team among ancient palace ruins at the Yueyang archaeological site in downtown Xi’an, according to Chinese state media. The toilet was said to have been located inside the […]
“Do we wanna let him in?” As far as China’s head of state Xi Jinping is concerned, the message of this carnival float is probably no. At the Shrove Monday procession in Cologne, Xi mutated into an octopus holding a tight grip on Scholz – a nod to the Chancellor’s state visit to Beijing in […]
‘I’m a realpolitik man’What does the possible successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel think about China? Armin Laschet gave his first major foreign policy interview as CDU leader to Reuters correspondent Andreas Rinke for the political magazine “Internationale Politik”. “We have an ambivalent relationship with China,” according to Laschet. On the one hand, he said, China […]
Two bulls charge at each other in front of packed crowds at the Lieshen Festival of the Li ethnic group in Yiliang, in the province of Yunnan. Bullfights – also with human participation – have experienced a renaissance in China in recent years.
If China can do it, we can do the same, YouTubers Josh & Archie decided. “We flew a spy balloon over Chinese airspace!” More precisely, they sent the balloon flying over the embassy of the People’s Republic in London, as this screenshot from the YouTube clip shows. They bought weather balloons on eBay for the […]
Was this picture taken from a balloon? There is snow on the Great Wall at the Jiankou section, and the mountains are also lightly powdered. Best conditions for a winter hike – at the up and down of the wall one warms up fast.
A list containing the names of 1.9 million members of the Chinese Communist Party from the Shanghai region has been leaked. Now Switzerland notes that an employee of the consulate in Shanghai is among them, and officials ask: Is Beijing infiltrating diplomatic and consular missions in this way and skimming off sensitive information?
