"Republican Peter Hoekstra who's campaigning for a seat in the US Senate in Michigan has run a creepy, racist Super Bowl ad against his Democratic challenger Debbie Stabenow to insinuate that she's actually working to help the Chinese."
1979. The U.S. and China had just established diplomatic relations. For the first time since 1949, the Chinese government allowed American journalists to be based in Beijing. This is their story told by interviews with Chinese officials who sought to manage the Western media, people the reporters covered, plus rare archival footage, still photos and previously unseen home videos.
In a mainland China restaurant, a waitress is taking order from the customers, a Taiwanese mother and her son. The son said, “Restaurant of China has really poor environment, really makes me lose my appetite!” The waitress then muttered, “Isn’t Taiwan part of China?” Thus, the following scene in the video…
A young man's suicide was caught on video as he jumped from the fourth story of a public building in Pu'an Town, Jiange County, Guangyuan, Sichuan.
According to the notes accompanying the home video, the man, a soldier, was despondent over a romantic situation and prepared to take his life on the afternoon of December 17 at the Golden Dragon Hotel near Xuehua Square.
In accordance with the video sites’ daily reach, Youku tops among the most popular online video sites in 2011. So what we’re we watching this year? From Wenzhou Car Accident to Guo Meimei Incident to heroic rescue, check out this year’s s most-watched Youku’ videos of 2011.
Justin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. In the first of two films, he embarks on a journey across Southern Africa to chart the extraordinary phenomenon of Chinese migration to Africa, and the huge influence of China on the development of the continent.
Includes an interview with Jeremy Goldkorn, founder of web magazine Danwei.com, as he visits the Great Wall and a tour of Beijing's underground city and visit to expat-owned Great Leap Brewing with an interview with Dominic Johnson-Hall, owner of Plastered T-shirts.
That's hilarious.