Most media, everywhere in the world, cater to their domestic audiences by stoking the fires of nationalism. This is no extraordinary insight: human beings, rooted in common evolutionary history, are territorial and tribal animals; we take pride in our home countries, just as we do in our home sports teams (the word "fan" is short for "fanatic"). Patriotism, taking pride in one's country, is laudatory and energizing, but if excessive, misdirected or blinding, it backfires and becomes counterproductive.
As trade tensions ratchet up between the world's two largest economies with US President Donald Trump directing the US Trade Representative last week to identify Chinese goods worth $100 billion for additional tariffs, some academics are trying to explain the chaos.
With the fourth industrial revolution prompting adjustments and changes in the global manufacturing industry, some developed economies, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Japan, have already worked out strategies to boost their manufacturing sectors.
The annual Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament is renowned for its party atmosphere, and last weekend's edition was no exception.
A retired doctor in Chongqing is helping visually impaired friends "see" the world by volunteering as a travel guide.
Amir Gal-Or has been avoiding crashes his whole working life - either in the cockpit of a plane or making investment decisions in his office.
Liu Tuchi has donated tens of thousands of books to rural children in five villages in southwestern China and built more than 15 reading rooms over the past 13 years - all with just the small income he earns collecting and selling trash.
Judge Guo Jie said she felt safer after China's top court put the protection of judges high on its agenda for this year.
A group of artists has been breaking established norms by deciding to uproot and relocate to a traditional Chinese village, leaving behind their jobs, homes and city lives in the process.
A good taxi driver might expect the occasional compliment. But Tianjin cabbie Jiang Wensheng has received more than 4,200 in 16 years from Chinese and foreign fares.
On a serene night, with a luminous moon gleaming above eastern China's Likeng village, 74-year-old Yu Jiajiu - perhaps the country's last traditional night watchman - sets out to work with his gong and mallet.
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