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...Douyin in China boasts of billions of hits each day. Its international edition has recently topped off Whatsapp, becoming the most downloaded IOS application on the market in the first quarter of 2018.… Tik Tok videos are typically 15 seconds long, tuned to repurposed, hit music and featured special effects.... Zhi [Ying, senior Director with Tik Tok] said the app's popularity builds on what users, typically under 35, made and submitted themselves, as they've taken the format to be an...

Shot across the bow of US?EcnsXi backs DPRK development China Daily

China's news can come across as somewhat corny to Americans but it is taken seriously and to heart in China.Here is a Mother's Day message featuring President Xi Jinping as filial son, a key Confucian value.In India and among those that follow the Vedic tradition, all women and especially mothers are regarded as manifestation of the Divine Mother (Devi) whose forms are many and varied but whose reality is one. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers.EcnsWays to love mother: Xi's story shows the...

Marx gets and update with Chinese characteristics. In contemporary China, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the scientificity and truthfulness of Marxism has been fully tested, its people-oriented approach fully implemented, and its openness and epochal character fully manifested. Xi's thought therefore is a development of Marxism, which is applicable to today's China. Ecns —China DailyXi's thought a development of Marxism Zhang...

[embedded content] A bit old, from 2016, but not too old, and very apropos given the recent heightened trade disputes between the United States and China.

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Michael HudsonPeking University, School of Marxist StudiesMay 5-6, 2018 Volumes II and III of Marx’s Capital describe how debt grows exponentially, burdening the economy with carrying charges. This overhead is subjecting today’s Western finance-capitalist economies to austerity, shrinking living standards and capital investment while increasing their cost of living and doing business. That is the main reason why they are losing their export markets and becoming...

Must-read. Xi Jinping lies at the apex of the Chinese political system. His influence now permeates at every level. He is the most powerful leader since Chairman Mao. Kevin Rudd (former PM of Australia and longtime student of China) notes, “none of this is for the faint-hearted … Xi has grown up in Chinese party politics as conducted at the highest levels. Through his father, Xi Zhongxun … he has been through a “masterclass” of not only how to survive it, but also on how to prevail within...