China’s population shrank for the first time in decades last year as its birthrate plunged, official figures showed Tuesday, adding to pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing despite an aging workforce and at a time of rising tension with the U.S.
The University of California (UC) system has invested millions of dollars in companies that are linked to the ongoing Uighur genocide, an analysis of its endowments revealed.
Since Beijing announced it is reopening China’s borders, Hong Kong announced that beginning on Dec. 29, most of the pandemic measures will be lifted but the mask mandate will remain in effect.
Two federal public health agencies will provide $1 million in grant funding to develop “a “public health tool” to predict vaccine “misinformation trends.”
Jiang Zemin, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader known for persecuting the Falun Gong group, has died at the age of 96 from leukemia and organ failure.
