India: India has successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Agni-V. The missile has a range of over 5,000 kilometers, which puts it within reach of targets in China and Pakistan.

#India #Pakistan #China

China: The Chinese government has announced that it will be conducting military exercises near Taiwan next week. The exercises are seen as a show of force in response to the US decision to sell arms to Taiwan.

#China #Taiwan

#PDFDownload For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr by Duncan Hamilton

The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire , from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last, brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWII
Many people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire . Famously, Liddell would not run on Sunday because of his strict observance of the Christian sabbath, and so he did not compete in his signature event, the 100 meters, at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He was the greatest sprinter in the world at the time, and his choice not to run was ridiculed by the British Olympic committee, his fellow athletes, and most of the world press. Yet Liddell triumphed in a new event, winning the 400 meters in Paris.

Bitcoin Tumble: Cryptocurrency Craze Crashing or Temporary Dip?

The once-booming cryptocurrency market is experiencing a turbulent crash, with Bitcoin, the flagship digital currency, plummeting in value. This sudden dip has sent shockwaves through the crypto community, sparking speculations about the future of Bitcoin and the viability of the entire crypto market. While some fear a complete bust, others believe this is merely a temporary correction within a larger growth trajectory.

Several factors have contributed to this recent downturn. Rising inflation and tightening monetary policies by central banks have dampened investor appetite for riskier assets, including cryptocurrencies. Concerns about regulatory crackdowns on crypto in China and other countries have also added to the market's anxiety. Additionally, internal factors within the crypto ecosystem, such as the collapse of certain stablecoins and lending platforms, have further eroded investor confidence.

Despite the bearish sentiment, several arguments offer hope for a potential rebound. Bitcoin's intrinsic value as a decentralized, inflation-resistant store of value remains appealing to a segment of investors. Furthermore, institutional adoption of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is gradually increasing, suggesting long-term potential for market growth. Advancements in blockchain technology and the emergence of innovative crypto applications could also contribute to future bull runs.

The long-term trajectory of the cryptocurrency market remains uncertain. While the current dip is undoubtedly a cause for concern, it is crucial to remember that volatility is inherent in this nascent asset class. The future of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will depend on several factors, including regulatory developments, technological advancements, and overall investor sentiment. #Bitcoin

Subzero Blast in China Leaves Over 120 Dead

A powerful earthquake followed by extreme temperatures has devastated parts of China, claiming over 120 lives and leaving many injured. Rescue efforts are ongoing as survivors face the harsh winter conditions. #China

"Survivors Face Subzero Temperatures After Quake Kills Over 120 in China" is currently featured as the top story on the New York Times international section. This suggests it's receiving significant attention from readers. #China

Political developments: In the United States, a new report suggests that former President #Trump would attempt to reshape US foreign policy on China, NATO, and Ukraine if he were re-elected. In Canada, public opinion polls indicate that a majority of voters believe Prime Minister Trudeau should resign and anticipate an election in 2024. #UnitedStates

China-Taiwan Tensions Rise, Sparking Fears of Military Conflict: Tensions escalate between China and Taiwan, raising concerns about potential military confrontation and its global impact. #InternationalNews

#PDF_Download Remembrance of Earth's Past #1 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin , Ken Liu (Translator)

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.

#PDF_Download James Asher #4 Magistrates of Hell by Barbara Hambly

James Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking . . . October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate the rumour that the mindless Undead - the Others that even the vampires fear - have begun to multiply in the caverns of the hills west of Peking. Alongside his old vampire partner, Don Simon Ysidro, Asher embarks on a sinister hunt, while somewhere in the city's cold gray labyrinth lurk the Peking vampires, known as the Magistrates of Hell - with an agenda of their own . . .

#PDF_Download Bruny by Heather Rose

A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcoming election. But this is no simple task. Her brother and sister are on either side of politics, the community is full of conspiracy theories, and her father is quoting Shakespeare. Only on Bruny does the world seem sane.

#PDF_Download Crazy Rich Asians #2 China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

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#PDF_Download The Scottish series The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley

From international bestselling author Susanna Kearsley comes a historical tale of intrigue and revolution in Scotland, where the exile of King James brought plots, machinations, suspicion and untold bravery to light. An investigation of a young widow's secrets by a man who's far from objective, leads to a multi-layered tale of adventure, endurance, romance...and the courage to hope.

#PDF_Download The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown in a powerful story about a largely unknown chapter in history and the women who emerged as heroes.

#PDF_Download Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang

In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had been five dollars at Kmart, too good a deal to pass up. But when she opened the box, something shocking fell out: an SOS letter, handwritten in broken English.

#PDF_Download Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani

China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.

#PDF_Download The Radiant Emperor #1 She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

In Mongol-occupied imperial China, a peasant girl refuses her fate of an early death. Stealing her dead brother’s identity to survive, she rises from monk to soldier, then to rebel commander. Zhu’s pursuing the destiny her brother somehow failed to attain: greatness. But all the while, she feels Heaven is watching.

#PDF_Download The Radiant Emperor #1 She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

In Mongol-occupied imperial China, a peasant girl refuses her fate of an early death. Stealing her dead brother’s identity to survive, she rises from monk to soldier, then to rebel commander. Zhu’s pursuing the destiny her brother somehow failed to attain: greatness. But all the while, she feels Heaven is watching.

#PDF_Download China's Leaders: From Mao to Now by David Shambaugh

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power.

#PDF_Download Getting China Wrong by Aaron L. Friedberg

The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the existing international system. To the China today is more repressive at home, more aggressive abroad, and more obviously intent on establishing itself as the world’s preponderant power than at any time since the death of Chairman Mao. What went wrong? Put simply, the democracies underestimated the resilience, resourcefulness, and ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party. For far too long, the United States and its allies failed to take seriously the Party's unwavering determination to crush opposition, build national power, and fulfil

#PDF_Download The World According to China by Elizabeth C. Economy

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to lead in the reform of the global governance system, suggest that he has just such an ambition. And his iron grip on power in the wake of the 2022 Party Congress suggests that he now has the mandate. But how does he plan to realize it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world? In this compelling book, Elizabeth Economy reveals China's ambitious new strategy to reclaim the country's past glory and reshape the geostrategic landscape in dramatic new ways. Xi's vision is one of Chinese centrality on the global stage, in which the mainland has realized its sovereignty claims over Hong Kong, Taiwan and the South China sea, deepened its global political, economic, and security reach through its grand scale Belt and Road Initiative, and u

#PDF_Download The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston , Xiaolu Guo (Introduction)

With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood. Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award

#PDF_Download The Singing Hills Cycle #1 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.

#PDF_Download The Radiant Emperor #1 She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.

#PDF_Download The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr

Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all those Tudors. He’s had a pretty bad press: supposed usurper of Richard II’s crown and the focus of hatred in the Peasants’ Revolt (they torched his home, the Savoy Palace). Helen Carr will paint a complex portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, patronised the arts … and, if you follow Shakespeare, gave the most beautiful oration on England (‘this sceptred isle… this blessed plot’). An engrossing drama of political machinations, violence, romance and tragedy played out at the cusp of a new era.

#PDF_Download Eat A Bowl Of Tea: A novel of New York's Chinatown by Louis Chu

Ben Loy, a member of the Chinese-American community in New York City, finds his arranged marriage to Mei Oi, a Chinese girl, in danger, because of her seduction by a local gambler

#PDF_Download Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick

Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of the most difficult places in all of China for foreigners to visit. Ngaba was one of the first places where the Tibetans and the Chinese Communists encountered one another. In the 1930s, Mao Zedong’s Red Army fled into the Tibetan plateau to escape their adversaries in the Chinese Civil War. By the time the soldiers reached Ngaba, they were so hungry that they looted monasteries and ate religious statues made of flour and butter—to Tibetans, it was as if they were eating the Buddha. Their experiences would make Ngaba one of the engines of Tibetan resistance for decades to come, culminating in shocking acts of self-immolation.

#PDF_Download Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT AND INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS ofour time comes an unforgettable true story about the redeeming potential of mercy. Bryan Stevenson was a gifted young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the furthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to die for a notorious murder he didn't commit. The case drew Stevenson into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

#PDF_Download The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo , Bagram Ibatoulline (Illustrator)

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. . . .

#PDF_Download Post Office by Charles Bukowski , Niall Griffiths (Introduction)

Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office.