With Taiwan in the headlines, aspirants must go beyond the news. UPSC links such issues to a broader knowledge spectrum. What ...

Previously known as Formosa, the island has been home to indigenous people for thousands of years, before the Dutch and ...

Mainland Chinese scholars are increasingly challenging the Out-of-Taiwan theory for aboriginal peoples whose ancestors crossed the ocean and settled thousands of miles. This comes as Beijing and Taipe ...

Despite the steady modernization of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the international community is skeptical of its warfare capabilities. Late last month, US think tank RAND Corp published ...

As Donald Trump embraces a multipolar world where raw power dominates, New Zealand will find itself in a global minority of ...

How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration,” Yii Jan Lin narrates how some Americans have used the apocalyptic ...

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The 1930s and 40s were time a of great pain for the Chinese people. Exploited by nearly all of the great foreign powers for decades, its vast population were largely impoverished and with the collapse ...