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Like a developed country, the senior population is increasing each year due to high longevity or better healthcare. In 2024, China had 10,930,000 deaths, which is 170,000 less than the 2023 figure (0.153% drop). This could be attributed to better healthcare or longevity factors; less death contributes to the aging population, but the death figure of 10,930,000 is higher than the birth figure of 9,540,000...

A few days ago, I watched a video in which an older gentleman in his eighties talked about the Lunar New Year. He spoke about all aspects of the “New Year,” which gave me a lot of new knowledge about Chinese traditions. Before introducing the main points of his talk, I would like to report the good news to everyone: China’s Lunar New Year has been officially approved by UNESCO as...

The US-China relationship is moving towards a cliff for no rational reason. The two nations of comparable land size are situated on the Earth’s opposite hemisphere, separated by oceans. There are no border issues or historical conflicts between the two nations. The major differences are one, the governance system and two, the people under each’s governance system-population. From the governance...

photo: the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)   Editor’s Note: Professor Louis Chow was selected as one of the recipients of Caltech’s 2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards for her pioneering research using electron microscopy to determine genome organization and RNA transcription, which led to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of split genes and RNA splicing, one of the most important breakthroughs...

The Democrats’ Collapse The outcome of this election can be described by borrowing a phrase from Taiwanese commentator Kuo Cheng-Liang, as the Democrats “losing so badly it’s embarrassing.” Why did the Democrats suffer such a disastrous defeat? Before the election, mainstream media polls suggested a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Kamala Harris. So why was the defeat so...

Capitalism is an important principle in economics. The important elements of economic productivity (production capacity) are manpower (including human labor and human intelligence), resources (including natural water, land, mines, energy, and biology), capital (the tools of trade beyond the era of barter transactions, the value measurement of products and production capacity, and the catalysts for...

The Democrats’ Collapse The outcome of this election can be described by borrowing a phrase from Taiwanese commentator Kuo Cheng-Liang, as the Democrats “losing so badly it’s embarrassing.” Why did the Democrats suffer such a disastrous defeat? Before the election, mainstream media polls suggested a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Kamala Harris. So why was the defeat so...

As an undeniable supporter of Trump for the U.S. Presidency since 2014, I have witnessed his struggle against the establishment for ten years. He won his 45th U.S. Presidency, lost his second-term bid, and came back and won the 2024 election. The author sensed that the 47th U.S. Presidency would not be a Trump 2.0 but X.0 where x (x = 1 to n) signifies a rapid revolution like a popular App racing to...

The current world hegemon, the United States of America, although still flaunting its power globally on the surface, is gradually revealing its internal issues. This has led more and more Americans to become aware of various societal injustices. Meanwhile, people in other countries have also been increasingly dissatisfied with America’s recent conduct and behavior, losing respect and confidence...

Make America Great Again (MAGA) is a great slogan for the U.S. and a timely movement simply because the U.S. is projected to be overtaken as the world’s largest economy and is laden with an ever-bigger national debt now at thirty-one trillion. Without a MAGA movement, the U.S. will never be able to maintain its world leadership position. If continuing with its legacy policies, the U.S. may decline...

Trump won the 47th U.S. Presidency with flying colors. He won the national popular vote by 2.5 million or more, electoral vote 312 to 220, Senate 49R to 47D (4 Independents), House 220R to 212D (3 Vacancies), and governorship 27R to 23D. No matter how you look at it, Trump came back better in 2024 than in 2016 and 2020. Trump created the slogan, “Make America Great Again (MAGA)” and the MAGA movement...

Today, China is athe fast- rising economy growing with twice the growth rate of the U.S. GDP, becoming the number two economy inof the world. The U.S. declares China as the most critical competitor and adopts a hostile China policy in diplomacy, waging sanctions oin trade and technology, and formulating military alliances against China. The US-China relations areis the worst ever since the nineteenth...

Significance of Trump’s Victory Trump has won the 2024 U.S. presidential election to become the 47th U.S. president. Trump’s victory is historical; he is the only American president returning to the White House with a landslide victory after being defeated after his first term. The 2024 presidential election was the costliest ($35B), with the richest individuals vested (Donors) in this...

Congratulations to President Donald Trump for winning the 47th U.S. Presidency. There is no question that it is a win by MAGA, the great slogan of making America great again. Trump’s victory is a call by Americans (more blue-collar, conservative citizens and young men than elites) who recognize that America is in decline, the government is ineffective, the economy is going to be worse, and the...

The U.S. and China, the two largest economiesy in the world, are obviously at odds today. The world mass media controlled largely by the American conglomerates devotes enormous space to covering news about the two nations’ domestic and foreign affairs, especially on their economic activities. The U.S. has been the number one economy in the world since 1890 and has become the only super power...

In our mass media, there is plenty of shocking news in 2024. The Ukraine-Russia war has extended from Ukraine to Russia and the Israel-Hamas war has continued and spread to Lebanon. As an election year for the U.S., we had assassination attempts not once but twice on a presidential candidate, former president Donald Trump, and the theatrical bow-out of President Joe Biden giving Vice President Kamala...

Dr. George Koo, 顧屏山, was my ‘Internet’ friend. George passed away on September 24, 2024, after a head injury from a fall on the pickleball court. I learned the terrible news from my Internet correspondents.  We were deeply sorrowed. For me, George was a remote acquaintance but a close friend in soul on international affairs. We knew each other at a late age and through the Internet. Thus,...

The U.S. election from ‘Biden-Trump’ to ‘Trump Waiting’ to today’s ‘Harris-Trump Battle’ iscan be said to be an interesting political drama series. In From January 2021, when Trump lost the re-election campaign and stepped down (With 74 million votes (47%), Biden was elected as the 46th president. Trump saidhad stated that he would run for the US presidential...

Link of Education to Nation Development Most people believe that “education is the key to success” on a personal level, such as the effect of education on employment, earning power, problem-solving skills, individual prosperity, and a happy life. Some general discussions on education’s contribution to communities or societies and its effect on personal attributes (human development) are critical...

​Link of Education to Nation Development Most people believe that “education is the key to success” on a personal level, such as the effect of education on employment, earning power, problem-solving skills, individual prosperity, and a happy life. Some general discussions on education’s contribution to communities or societies and its effect on personal attributes (human development) are critical...