Initially, being a huge football fan, I wanted to ask FIFA how many countries are there in the world. And then I could work offthe FIFA listBut as much fun as that would have been, it was just plain wrong. Football has more national teams than any other sport so that’s a great s...
First, many families do not have money for school. Also, some girls leave school. They get married as teenagers — some at age fourteen or fifteen. Kakenya Ntaiya is from a small village in Kenya. She is the oldest of eight children. As a child, her family was very poor. She had to...
Editor's Note: China Daily's think tank 'China Watch Institute' issued a report to brief readers about how some individuals and organizations in Western countries rolled out defamation campaign against the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in an attempt to discredit and suppress China. In recent ye...
lost in the Caucasus between Russia and Georgia. If you followedmy journey to every country in the world, you’ll know that from a technical standpoint the answer to ‘how many countries in the world‘ is 197. But that doesn
The threat of secondary sanctions on financial institutions that help Russia bypass its own restrictions is proving effective, the US deputy treasury secretary, Wally Adeyemo, has told Reuters. Data cited by the Treasury shows financial flows between Russia and several countries, such as Kazakhstan,...
law, it is illegal for anyone to provide funding or support for the Al-Qaida, ISIS or other terrorist organizations. However, the US government has long been, directly or indirectly, providing funds, weapons and intelligence support to these organizations through certain countries in the Middle ...
Why and How China Works Preface Over the years, perspectives on China have run the gamut from predicting “the coming collapse of China” to expecting that “the twenty-first century will be the Chinese Century.” And we’ve heard every perspective in between. Despite its many ups and downs...
In a stunning escalation of the ongoing conflict, Ukraine has launched significant cross-border attacks into Russia’s Kursk region, claiming control over approximately 1,000 square kilometers of territory. This bold move, initiated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has effectively shattered pro...
on Russia’s southern border, Mr Putin is being asked to help crush a popular uprising—a distraction and awkward proof of his willingness to oppress.For these reasons, he may have to curb his ambitions and, say, seize enclaves around Donetsk that are already controlled by Russian-backed irre...
American lawmakers say that China’s dependence on illegal practices puts domestic fishermen at a competitive disadvantage. (The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairsdeclined to commenton this allegation.) “We cannot continue to allow countries such as China and Russia to undercut our honest fishers ...