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China’s Xinhua News taunted the US over the massive 20-year failure in Afghanistan. The entire venture collapsed this past week after Joe Biden removed troops, left the terrorists billions of dollars worth of military weapons and is now scrambling to save the thousands of remaining US citizens stranded in the country. Advertisement - story continues below Afghanistan will forever be a stain in world history thanks to Joe Biden. Xinhua News also mocked the poor Afghans who fell to their death clinging to a US plane leaving the Kabul Airport.

CNN is under fire for allegedly publishing "Chinese propaganda" in a report that cites a media outlet controlled by the Chinese government. On Monday, CNN.com ran an article about China People's Liberation Army (PLA) supposedly having a foothold in the spread of the coronavirus in a branch of its military, running the headline, "China's PLA Navy is controlling coronavirus and aircraft carrier's deployment proves it, report says." "A Chinese naval flotilla headed into the Pacific over the weekend, evidence that the People's Liberation Army Navy has done a much better job controlling coronavirus than the US Navy, according to a...

Feb 12, 2005 SPEAKING FREELY Betting on the next Lenovo By George Zhibin Gu Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. December 2004 will be remembered as a time when a faceless Chinese company, Lenovo, suddenly took the global stage. The bluest of blue-chip multinationals, IBM, got out of its personal computer business by selling out to Lenovo, making the faceless company the third-biggest global PC player. So are there other Chinese brands that could take the world by storm? A rising...