Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

The two largest economies in the world - the United States and China - are at war, with tariffs being used by either side as its weapon. While the US has increased reciprocal tariffs on all ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- At Hunan Provincial Library in central China, 41-year-old Yan Sheng meticulously repaired fragile pages of ancient books under a microscope, surrounded by stacks of ...

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern ... It’s all that is left of what used to be a thriving wetland ecosystem, home to forests of Chinese swamp cypress along with ...

At another diplomatic occasion, when Chairman Mao Zedong cited an ancient ... The adviser to All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Tang says reading became her compass.

while almost all of the remaining 30% is in Chinese hands. While it is true that organizations can choose to host their data with a cloud provider all over the world, many use infrastructure that ...

BEIJING, April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese drama standing out in the world ... techniques of Laozi and Zhuangzi, including their use of abstraction, xieyi (freehand expression), the ...

The stratigraphy and artifacts, including pottery and bone tools, were used to differentiate the two cultural phases and support the chronological framework established by the radiocarbon dates. We ...

Then China announced it would retaliate with an 84% tariff on U.S. goods, effective Thursday. Trump hit back in response, raising tariffs to 125% on China while cutting them to 10% for the rest of ...