Reactions in Beijing as NKoreans say farewell to late leader
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Dandong
1. Wide of China-North Korean Friendship Bridge connecting Chinese city of Dandong and North Korean city of Sinuiju
2. Building at North Korean side
3. Wide of street in Dandong
4. Various of women watching TV showing Kim Jong Il funeral
5. Close of TV screen showing Kim Jong Il funeral
6. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhang Fang, 21-year-old Waitress:
People told me that the funeral of Kim Jong II is kind of like the funeral of Chairman Mao. The Chinese were very sad when Mao died. I think North Korea today is just like what China was in Mao's time.
7. Wide of people walking by Yalu River that separates China and North Korea
8. Pan of Dandong resident Zhong Weisheng walking with friend
9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhong Weisheng, 23-year-old Engineer:
North Korea just gives importance to military build-up, and isolates itself from the outside world and pays no attention to economic development and the country is very poor during Kim Jong Il's time. I think their policies may have some positive changes after Kim Jong II's death, so I think his death is good for North Korea.
10. Wide of Friendship bridge
11. Chinese flag
Beijing
12. Street and building with big screen
13. Close of screen showing widow of former South Korean president, in Pyongyang for the funeral of Kim Jong Il
14. Mid of pedestrians
15. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Xiaocun, 25-year-old architect:
I feel quite sad. After all he was a leader of a country and has been quite friendly to China. Also North Korea is a friendly neighbour to us.
16. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Wu (full name not given), Company manager:
It is an experience for everyone; to be born, get sick and die, so I don't feel anything about it. For me it is quite far away.
17. Various of pedestrians in Beijing streets
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Residents of the Chinese border city of Dandong, across the Yalu River from North Korea, tuned in to watch a meticulously choreographed funeral for late leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang.
Footage broadcast on North Korea's state television showed Kim's youngest son and successor Kim Jong Un walking next to his father's hearse as it made its way slowly through cold, snowy Pyongyang.
Tens of thousands of North Koreans lined snow-covered streets, wailing and clutching their chests as the funeral cortege passed by.
Dandong resident, 23-year-old Engineer Zhong Weisheng expressed the hope that Kim's death might bring positive changes for the country.
North Korea just gives importance to military build-up, and isolates itself from the outside world and pays no attention to economic development and the country is very poor during Kim Jong Il's time. I think their policies may have some positive changes after Kim Jong II's death, so I think his death is good for North Korea, he said.
To some Chinese, the scenes of mass grief coming from North Korea were similar to the funeral of Mao Zedong in 1976, the revolutionary leader whose radical policies killed (m) millions and impoverished China but whom they were all taught to worship as a godlike father.
Reactions were mixed in the Chinese capital Beijing, where some local residents expressed sorrow at the loss of Kim Jong Il, while others professed indifference.
Kim Jong Il, who led the nation with an iron fist following his father Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, died of a heart attack December 17 at age 69, according to state media.
Kim Jong Un is already being hailed as the supreme leader of the party, state and army.
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Chinese Geologists Claim Success in Combustible Ice Mining in South China Sea
Geologists at the China Geological Survey on Thursday announced success in the tentative mining of combustible ice in the South China Sea.
Continuous mining has been conducted in the past week in the South China Sea, making China the first country to achieve continuous and stable gas production in the tentative drive.
Since the successful burning for official gas production on the combustible ice on May 10, we have been operating for eight days with daily output of over 10,000 cubic meters. The maximal daily output reached 35,000 cubic meters. The continuously stable output signals that we have realized our set goals, said Ye Jianliang, commander of the combustible ice mining project at the site and deputy chief engineer with the China Geological Survey.
Combustible ice is a compound of methane and ice crystals of gas and water under low temperature and high pressure, conditions similar to the seabed. It is predicted that the reserve of combustible ice on earth is more than twice that of coal, oil and gas.
Since most combustible ice is buried deep down in the seabed, mining of such clean energy is very challenging. Many countries including Japan and Canada have tried to tap it but are yet to reach their expected goals.
Experts said the Chinese success means the country has mastered the world-class technology in the field.
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Japan's Dirty Secret (2003): The truth about Japan's secret facility at Harbin, used to manufacture germs that infected and killed thousands of Chinese during World War II.
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The Shanghai Jews. Michael Blumenthal, Rachel DeWoskin, and Civitas Ensemble
The Shanghai Jews: Risk and Resilience in a Refugee Community. Faculty member and novelist Rachel DeWoskin hosts a keynote by W. Michael Blumenthal, former Secretary of the Treasury and a Holocaust survivor who grew up in Japanese-occupied war-time Shanghai. Blumenthal delivers a keynote on the life of a community of more than 18,000 Jewish refugees who survived WWII in Shanghai, identifying intersections between that past and our present context.
Following his keynote is a concert performed by Civitas Ensemble's violinist Yuan-Qing Yu; cellist Kenneth Olsen; clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom; and pianist Winston Choi, of classical music composed by Jewish refugees and Chinese composers inspired by collaborations with refugees or by the musical legacies of the Shanghai Jews. Yuan-Qing Yu introduces the pieces and composers, telling stories of their connections to Shanghai, the war, and each other. She plays on a plays on a bow stamped with a Star of David and believed to date from WWII and soon to be added to a touring collection described in the documentary Violins of Hope. The pieces Civitas Ensemble performs here include Alexander Tcherepnin's Selections from Piano Etudes, Ode for Cello and Piano, and Sonata in one moment for clarinet and piano as well as Otto Joachim's L'Eclosion for Solo Piano; Jacob Avshalomoff's Sonatine for clarinet and piano; Wolfgang Fraenkel's Variations and Fantasies on a Theme by Arnold Schoenberg Sang Tong's Fantasia for Cello and Piano Fantasia; and Ding Shan-De's Piano Trio.
W. Michael Blumenthal's keynote was made possible by support from the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; The Franke Institute; The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS); the Departments of Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), and History; the Program on Creative Writing; and a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The concert by Civitas Ensemble was sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
Arirang Special - M60Ep242C05 It is the duty of the soldier to dedicate his life for the country
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Ahn Jung-geun On peace in East Asia
The Chinese government opened a memorial hall at Harbin Railway Station for a Korean patriot Ahn Jung-geun on Jan. 19, 2014, fueling heated debated on a historic events that had taken place more than a century ago.
On the fated day, Oct. 26, 1903, patriot Ahn Jung-geun shot and killed the heady of the Japanese Privy Council Ito Hirobumi on a platform at the Harbin Railway Station. Ahn gave himself up on sight without any resistance. Japan labeled him a terrorist, but, in fact, he was the Lieutenant General of the Korea's Righteous Army and a true pan-Asianist, working for peace in East Asia. His grand idea remains guidance for the future in the region.
Arirang Special takes us back to 100 years, a critical moment in history for Korea, China and Japan, and reviews the action of Ahn Jung-geun. So was he a terrorist as Japan claim, or an independence activist fighting for his country and a visionary of peace in East Asia?
Chapter 1: In great concern over the national security
Ito Hirobumi boasted himself as being a protector of peace. However, Ahn Jung-geun revealed different side to Ito, listing 15 reasons how Ito was disrupting peace in East Asia. In fact, Japan was in the process of colonizing Korea through wars with China (the Sino-Japanese War) and Russia (the Russo-Japanese War). Ahn had logically formed his cases.
Chapter 2: A person with a noble reason is not afraid to give up one's life to do the right thing.
Ahn Jung-geun was born in Hwanghae-do, north of the Korean Peninsula, in 1879. He realized early on in his life the importance of equality and worked to educate his people of its importance. He decided to be part of the Korea's Righteous Army to fight against Japanese imperialism and ranked lieutenant general. There he severed his finger to pledge loyalty and decided to take action against Ito Hirobumi.
Chapter 3: Unless reading everyday, thorns grow in the mouth
Ahn Jung-geun tried to tell the people at the trial of deceptive Japanese acts. The trial was almost scripted by Japan and Ahn was sentenced to death, but he wasn't disturbed and carried on with his duty. As he was waiting for the sentence to be carried out, Ahn wrote On Peace in East Asia to describe this thoughts on how peace should be achieved in the region, such as Korea, China and Japan forming a community of politics, economy and culture. His idea, which is the likes of the EU, is evidently different from the ideas Ito Hirobumi wanted to realize, which is making Japan the leader in East Asia. Ahn was ahead of his time.
Chapter 4: It is the duty of the soldier to dedicate his life for the country.
Ahn Jung-geun faced his death proudly and moved many, including Japanese prison guards who were with him until the end. Ahn's mother supported his action and said it was his duty as a Korean to dedicate his life for the country.
On Mar. 26, 1910, Ahn was executed at the age of 31, but his death didn't end in vain. Until the end, he only prayed for his country's independence and peace in East Asia and even now, Ahn's spirit still lives on.
US-China Shared Challenges in Water Management and Urban Development
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CEAS Lecture Series - Charles K. Armstrong
Industrialization and its Consequences in Transborder Northeast Asia
October 6, 2016
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1025 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637
From the early 1930s to the late 1950s, northern Korea and Northeast China shared a common path of interconnected industrial development, first under the Japanese Empire and then as part of a Soviet-led socialist regional order. The state-led, heavy industry-oriented economic development of this period created lasting consequences on both sides of the Sino-Korean border: by the 1980s, Northeast China had become a de-industrialized rust belt, and in the 1990s North Korea collapsed into famine. The harsh environmental legacies of this industrialization are still felt today. This talk explores the intertwined histories of industrialization, de-industrialization, and nascent re-integration between North Korea and Northeast China from the 1930s to the present, with a focus on the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
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War crimes perpetrated by the Soviet Union and its armed forces from 1919 to 1991 include acts committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as the NKVD, including the NKVD's Internal Troops. In some cases, these acts were committed upon the orders of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in pursuance of the early Soviet Government's policy of Red Terror, in other instances they were committed without orders by Soviet troops against prisoners of war or civilians of countries that had been in armed conflict with the USSR, or they were committed during partisan warfare.A significant number of these incidents occurred in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe before, during and in the aftermath of World War II, involving summary executions and the mass murder of prisoners of war, such as in the Katyn massacre and mass rape by troops of the Red Army in territories they occupied.
When the Allied Powers of World War II founded the post-war International Military Tribunal to examine war crimes committed during the conflict by Nazi Germany, with officials from the Soviet Union taking an active part in the judicial processes, there was no examination of Soviet Forces' actions and no charges were ever brought against its troops, because they were also an undefeated power which then held Eastern Europe under military occupation, marring the historical authority of the Tribunal's activity as being, in part, victor's justice.Today, the Russian government regularly dismisses the war crimes as Western myth. In Russian history textbooks, the atrocities are either altered to portray the Soviets positively or omitted entirely. In a June 2017 interview, Russian president Vladimir Putin acknowledged the horrors of Stalinism, but he also criticized the excessive demonization of Stalin by Russia's enemies.
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Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russia and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry. Anti-communism has been an element of movements holding many different political positions, including nationalist, social democratic, liberal, conservative, fascist, capitalist, anarchist and even socialist viewpoints.
The first organization specifically dedicated to opposing communism was the Russian White movement, which fought in the Russian Civil War starting in 1918 against the recently established Communist government. The White movement was supported militarily by several allied foreign governments, which represented the first instance of anti-communism as a government policy. Nevertheless, the Communist Red Army defeated the White movement and the Soviet Union was created in 1922. During the existence of the Soviet Union, anti-communism became an important feature of many different political movements and governments across the world.
In the United States, anti-communism came to prominence with the First Red Scare of 1919–1920. During the 1920s and 1930s, opposition to communism in Europe was promoted by conservatives, social democrats, liberals and fascists. Fascist governments rose to prominence as major opponents of communism in the 1930s and they founded the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936 as an anti-communist alliance. In Asia, the Empire of Japan and the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party) were the leading anti-communist forces in this period.
After World War II, fascism ceased to be a major political movement due to the defeat of the Axis powers. The victorious Allies were an international coalition led primarily by the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, but after the war this alliance quickly broke down into two opposing camps: a Communist one led by the Soviet Union and a capitalist one led by the United States. The rivalry between the two sides came to be known as the Cold War and during this period the United States government played a leading role in supporting global anti-communism as part of its containment policy. There were numerous military conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists in various parts of the world, including the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Soviet–Afghan War. NATO was founded as an anti-communist military alliance in 1949 and continued throughout the Cold War.
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The men's national basketball team of the Philippines represents the country in international basketball competitions. It is managed by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (Basketball Federation of the Philippines or simply SBP). The team won a bronze medal in the 1954 FIBA World Championship for men, the best finish by any team outside the Americas and Europe, and a fifth-place finish in the 1936 Summer Olympics, the best finish by any team outside the Americas, Europe and Oceania. The Philippines has the most wins in the Olympics among teams outside the Americas, Europe and Oceania.
Aside from the bronze medal at the World Championships and the fifth-place Olympic finish, the Philippines has won five FIBA Asian Championships for Men, four Asian Games Men's Basketball gold medals and a consistent winner at the Southeast Asian Games and at the Southeast Asia Basketball Association. The country has also participated in four FIBA World Cups and seven Olympic Basketball Tournaments.
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00:03:05 1 Anti-communist movements
00:03:15 1.1 Left-wing anti-communism
00:04:14 1.1.1 Anarchists
00:05:48 1.2 Classical liberals
00:06:55 1.2.1 Objectivism
00:07:36 1.3 Former communists
00:09:22 1.4 Fascism and far-right politics
00:10:57 1.5 Other
00:11:26 1.6 Religions
00:11:34 1.6.1 Buddhists
00:12:26 1.6.2 Christianity
00:16:31 1.6.3 Falun Gong
00:18:19 2 Literature
00:21:40 3 Evasion of censorship
00:23:22 4 Anti-communism in different countries and regions
00:23:33 4.1 Council of Europe and European Union
00:24:09 4.2 Albania
00:25:12 4.3 Armenia
00:25:56 4.4 Belgium
00:26:16 4.5 Czechoslovakia
00:27:24 4.6 Finland
00:27:49 4.7 France
00:28:18 4.8 Hong Kong
00:29:24 4.9 Hungary
00:30:28 4.10 India
00:30:49 4.11 Indonesia
00:31:38 4.12 Japan and Manchukuo
00:36:12 4.13 Middle East
00:36:20 4.14 People's Republic of China
00:36:30 4.14.1 Early anti-communism in China
00:36:58 4.14.2 Communism after the revolution
00:38:13 4.15 Poland
00:41:09 4.16 Romania
00:42:25 4.17 Moldova
00:42:58 4.18 South America
00:43:43 4.19 South Korea
00:44:04 4.20 Spain
00:44:36 4.21 United States
00:53:11 4.22 Vietnam
00:53:43 5 Criticism of anti-communism
00:59:07 6 See also
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Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry. Anti-communism has been an element of movements holding many different political positions, including nationalist, social democratic, liberal, libertarian, conservative, fascist, capitalist, anarchist and even socialist viewpoints.
The first organization specifically dedicated to opposing communism was the Russian White movement, which fought in the Russian Civil War starting in 1918 against the recently established Communist government. The White movement was supported militarily by several allied foreign governments, which represented the first instance of anti-communism as a government policy. Nevertheless, the Communist Red Army defeated the White movement and the Soviet Union was created in 1922. During the existence of the Soviet Union, anti-communism became an important feature of many different political movements and governments across the world.
In the United States, anti-communism came to prominence with the First Red Scare of 1919–1920. During the 1920s and 1930s, opposition to communism in Europe was promoted by conservatives, social democrats, liberals and fascists. Fascist governments rose to prominence as major opponents of communism in the 1930s and they founded the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936 as an anti-communist alliance. In Asia, the Empire of Japan and the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party) were the leading anti-communist forces in this period.
After World War II, fascism ceased to be a major political movement due to the defeat of the Axis powers. The victorious Allies were an international coalition led primarily by the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, but after the war this alliance quickly broke down into two opposing camps: a Communist one led by the Soviet Union and a capitalist one led by the United States. The rivalry between the two sides came to be known as the Cold War and during this period the United States government played a leading role in supporting global anti-communism as part of its containment policy. There were numerous military conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists in various parts of the world, including the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Soviet–Afghan War. NATO was founded as an anti-communist military alliance in 1949 and continued throughout the ...
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00:07:53 1 Names
00:09:18 2 Background
00:09:27 2.1 Political and military alliances
00:12:19 2.2 Arms race
00:14:49 2.3 Conflicts in the Balkans
00:16:20 3 Prelude
00:16:29 3.1 Sarajevo assassination
00:18:51 3.2 Expansion of violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:19:55 3.3 July Crisis
00:24:37 4 Progress of the war
00:24:46 4.1 Opening hostilities
00:24:55 4.1.1 Confusion among the Central Powers
00:25:50 4.1.2 Serbian campaign
00:26:38 4.1.3 German Offensive in Belgium and France
00:30:16 4.1.4 Asia and the Pacific
00:31:30 4.1.5 African campaigns
00:32:18 4.1.6 Indian support for the Allies
00:34:01 4.2 Western Front
00:34:10 4.2.1 Trench warfare begins
00:36:45 4.2.2 Continuation of trench warfare
00:40:58 4.3 Naval war
00:46:23 4.4 Southern theatres
00:46:32 4.4.1 War in the Balkans
00:50:38 4.4.2 Ottoman Empire
00:55:59 4.4.3 Italian participation
01:01:03 4.4.4 Romanian participation
01:04:21 4.5 Eastern Front
01:04:29 4.5.1 Initial actions
01:05:28 4.5.2 Russian Revolution
01:08:23 4.5.3 Czechoslovak Legion
01:10:01 4.6 Central Powers peace overtures
01:12:01 4.7 1917–1918
01:12:21 4.7.1 Developments in 1917
01:15:52 4.7.2 Ottoman Empire conflict, 1917–1918
01:19:27 4.7.3 15 August 1917: Peace offer by the Pope
01:20:37 4.7.4 Entry of the United States
01:24:44 4.7.5 German Spring Offensive of 1918
01:28:54 4.7.6 New states enter the war
01:30:24 4.8 Allied victory: summer 1918 onwards
01:30:35 4.8.1 Hundred Days Offensive
01:33:03 4.8.1.1 Battle of Albert
01:34:50 4.8.2 Allied advance to the Hindenburg Line
01:37:00 4.8.3 German Revolution 1918–1919
01:38:08 4.8.4 New German government surrenders
01:39:15 4.8.5 Armistices and capitulations
01:43:13 5 Aftermath
01:43:58 5.1 Formal end of the war
01:46:10 5.2 Peace treaties and national boundaries
01:51:31 5.3 National identities
01:55:38 5.4 Health effects
01:59:52 6 Technology
02:00:01 6.1 Ground warfare
02:06:16 6.1.1 Areas taken in major attacks
02:08:06 6.2 Naval
02:09:08 6.3 Aviation
02:11:34 7 War crimes
02:11:43 7.1 Baralong incidents
02:12:46 7.2 Torpedoing of HMHS iLlandovery Castle/i
02:13:40 7.3 Blockade of Germany
02:14:36 7.4 Chemical weapons in warfare
02:16:51 7.5 Genocide and ethnic cleansing
02:17:01 7.5.1 Ottoman Empire
02:18:56 7.5.2 Russian Empire
02:19:24 7.6 Rape of Belgium
02:21:01 8 Soldiers' experiences
02:21:42 8.1 Prisoners of war
02:25:59 8.2 Military attachés and war correspondents
02:26:27 9 Support for the war
02:30:55 10 Opposition to the war
02:37:30 11 Conscription
02:37:58 11.1 Canada
02:38:29 11.2 Australia
02:39:46 11.3 Britain
02:41:31 11.4 United States
02:43:52 11.5 Austria-Hungary
02:44:39 12 Diplomacy
02:45:36 13 Legacy and memory
02:46:01 13.1 Historiography
02:46:49 13.2 Memorials
02:48:45 13.3 Cultural memory
02:52:07 13.4 Social trauma
02:53:27 13.5 Discontent in Germany
02:55:43 13.6 Economic effects
03:02:54 14 See also
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World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as the war to end all wars, it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic caused another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide.On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, leading to the July Crisis. In response, on 23 ...
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The history of the Jews in Japan is well documented in modern times with various traditions relating to much earlier eras.
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Beijing (;Mandarin pronunciation: [pèi.tɕíŋ] (listen)), formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's third most populous city proper, and most populous capital city. The city, located in northern China, is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of central government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China.Beijing is an important world capital and global power city, and one of the world's leading centers for politics, economy and business, finance, education, culture, innovation and technology, architecture, language, and diplomacy. A megacity, Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urban population after Shanghai and is the nation's political, cultural, and educational center. It is home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companies and houses the largest number of Fortune Global 500 companies in the world, as well as the world's four biggest financial institutions. It is also a major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport has been the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic since 2010, and, as of 2016, the city's subway network is the busiest and second longest in the world.
Combining both modern and traditional architecture, Beijing is one of the oldest cities in the world, with a rich history dating back three millennia. As the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political center of the country for most of the past eight centuries, and was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A.D. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural center of an area as immense as China. With mountains surrounding the inland city on three sides, in addition to the old inner and outer city walls, Beijing was strategically poised and developed to be the residence of the emperor and thus was the perfect location for the imperial capital. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates. It has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, and parts of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal – all popular locations for tourism. Siheyuans, the city's traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are major tourist attractions and are common in urban Beijing.
Many of Beijing's 91 universities consistently rank among the best in China, among which Peking University and Tsinghua University are ranked in the top 60 universities of the world. Beijing CBD is a center for Beijing's economic expansion, with the ongoing or recently completed construction of multiple skyscrapers. Beijing's Zhongguancun area is known as China's Silicon Valley and a center of innovation and technology entrepreneurship.
Philippines men's national basketball team | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:20 1 History
00:01:29 1.1 Early years
00:05:06 1.2 Birth of the Asian championships
00:06:27 1.3 Creation of the Philippine Basketball Association
00:07:32 1.4 The NCC program (1980–1986)
00:09:03 1.5 Professional era
00:14:18 1.6 SBP era (2007–present)
00:14:29 1.6.1 Team Pilipinas (2007–2009)
00:15:39 1.6.2 Gilas Pilipinas (2010–present)
00:21:16 2 FIBA suspensions
00:21:25 2.1 1963
00:22:00 2.2 2001
00:22:36 2.3 2005–2007
00:25:10 3 Nickname
00:28:41 4 Uniform
00:29:37 4.1 Manufacturer
00:29:59 5 Fixtures and results
00:30:09 6 Competitions
00:30:18 6.1 Olympic Games
00:30:27 6.1.1 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament
00:30:36 6.2 FIBA Basketball World Cup
00:30:46 6.3 FIBA Asia Championship/Cup
00:30:56 6.4 FIBA Asia Challenge
00:31:05 6.5 Asian Games
00:31:13 6.6 Southeast Asian Games
00:31:23 6.7 SEABA Championship
00:31:31 6.8 SEABA Cup
00:31:40 6.9 Far Eastern Championship Games
00:31:50 6.10 Other tournaments
00:31:58 6.10.1 William Jones Cup
00:32:15 7 Team
00:32:24 7.1 Current roster
00:32:33 7.1.1 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification
00:32:49 7.1.2 2018 Asian Games
00:33:05 7.2 Past rosters
00:33:21 7.3 Coaches
00:33:29 8 See also
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The Philippines men's national basketball team (Filipino: Pambansang koponan ng basketbol ng Pilipinas) is managed by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (Basketball Federation of the Philippines or simply SBP).
The team won a bronze medal in the 1954 FIBA World Championship, the best finish by any team outside the Americas and Europe. Also, the team took a fifth-place finish in 1936 Summer Olympics, the best finish by any team outside the Americas, Europe and Oceania. The Philippines has the most wins in the Olympics among teams outside the Americas, Europe and Oceania.
Aside from the bronze medal at the FIBA World Cup and the fifth-place Olympic finish, the Philippines has won five FIBA Asia Cups (formerly known as the FIBA Asia Championship), four Asian Games men's basketball gold medals, eight SEABA Championships, all but one Southeast Asian Games men's basketball gold medals, and has the most titles in Southeast Asia Basketball Association men's championship, being considered as the powerhouse team in Southeast Asia and one of Asia's elite basketball teams. The country has also participated in five FIBA World Cups and seven Olympic Basketball Tournaments.
Gilas Pilipinas and the Gilas Cadets represent the current men's national team.
First World War | Wikipedia audio article
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First World War
00:06:48 1 Names
00:09:48 2 Background
00:09:57 2.1 Political and military alliances
00:12:25 2.2 Arms race
00:14:34 2.3 Conflicts in the Balkans
00:15:54 3 Prelude
00:16:03 3.1 Sarajevo assassination
00:18:08 3.2 Expansion of violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:19:05 3.3 July Crisis
00:23:12 4 Progress of the war
00:23:21 4.1 Opening hostilities
00:23:30 4.1.1 Confusion among the Central Powers
00:24:17 4.1.2 Serbian campaign
00:24:59 4.1.3 German Offensive in Belgium and France
00:28:12 4.1.4 Asia and the Pacific
00:29:18 4.1.5 African campaigns
00:30:01 4.1.6 Indian support for the Allies
00:31:30 4.2 Western Front
00:31:39 4.2.1 Trench warfare begins
00:33:54 4.2.2 Continuation of trench warfare
00:37:33 4.3 Naval war
00:42:15 4.4 Southern theatres
00:42:24 4.4.1 War in the Balkans
00:46:00 4.4.2 Ottoman Empire
00:50:36 4.4.3 Italian participation
00:54:43 4.4.4 Romanian participation
00:57:39 4.5 Eastern Front
00:57:47 4.5.1 Initial actions
00:58:39 4.5.2 Russian Revolution
01:01:18 4.5.3 Czechoslovak Legion
01:02:43 4.6 Central Powers peace overtures
01:04:27 4.7 1917–1918
01:04:45 4.7.1 Developments in 1917
01:07:48 4.7.2 Ottoman Empire conflict, 1917–1918
01:10:53 4.7.3 15 August 1917: Peace offer by the Pope
01:11:55 4.7.4 Entry of the United States
01:15:30 4.7.5 German Spring Offensive of 1918
01:19:05 4.7.6 New states enter the war
01:20:23 4.8 Allied victory: summer 1918 onwards
01:20:34 4.8.1 Hundred Days Offensive
01:22:42 4.8.1.1 Battle of Albert
01:24:15 4.8.2 Allied advance to the Hindenburg Line
01:26:05 4.8.3 German Revolution 1918-1919
01:27:04 4.8.4 New German government surrenders
01:28:03 4.8.5 Armistices and capitulations
01:31:30 5 Aftermath
01:32:11 5.1 Formal end of the war
01:34:02 5.2 Peace treaties and national boundaries
01:38:33 5.3 National identities
01:41:52 5.4 Health effects
01:45:21 6 Technology
01:45:30 6.1 Ground warfare
01:50:58 6.1.1 Areas taken in major attacks
01:52:34 6.2 Naval
01:53:29 6.3 Aviation
01:55:35 7 War crimes
01:55:44 7.1 Baralong incidents
01:56:40 7.2 Torpedoing of HMHS iLlandovery Castle/i
01:57:27 7.3 Blockade of Germany
01:58:16 7.4 Chemical weapons in warfare
02:00:16 7.5 Genocide and ethnic cleansing
02:00:25 7.5.1 Ottoman Empire
02:02:04 7.5.2 Russian Empire
02:02:29 7.6 Rape of Belgium
02:03:54 8 Soldiers' experiences
02:04:30 8.1 Prisoners of war
02:08:11 8.2 Military attachés and war correspondents
02:08:37 9 Support for and opposition to the war
02:08:48 9.1 Support
02:12:19 9.2 Opposition
02:18:01 9.3 Conscription
02:18:27 9.3.1 Conscription in Canada
02:18:54 9.3.2 Conscription in Australia
02:19:25 9.3.3 Conscription in Britain
02:20:55 9.3.4 United States
02:22:56 9.3.5 Austria-Hungary
02:23:38 9.4 Diplomacy
02:24:29 10 Legacy and memory
02:24:53 10.1 Historiography
02:25:36 10.2 Memorials
02:27:16 10.3 Cultural memory
02:30:08 10.4 Social trauma
02:31:17 10.5 Discontent in Germany
02:33:15 10.6 Economic effects
02:39:28 11 See also
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World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as the war to end all wars, it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. An estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a direct result of the war, and it also contributed to later genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic, which caused between 50 and 100 million deaths worldwide. Military losses were exacerbated by new technological and industrial developments and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history and precipitated major political changes, including the Revolutions of 1917–1923, in many of the nations involved. Unresolved rivalries ...
Vladivostok | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:53 1 Names and etymology
00:02:12 2 History
00:07:21 3 Geography
00:08:25 3.1 Climate
00:11:18 4 Politics
00:13:13 5 Administrative and municipal status
00:13:49 6 Demographics
00:14:34 7 Economy
00:16:01 8 Transportation
00:18:06 8.1 Urban transportation
00:19:27 8.2 Port
00:19:52 9 Education
00:20:45 10 Media
00:22:54 11 Culture
00:23:02 11.1 Theatre
00:23:36 11.2 Museums
00:24:13 11.3 Music
00:25:27 12 Parks and squares
00:25:58 12.1 Pokrovskiy Park
00:26:26 12.2 Minny Gorodok
00:27:02 12.3 Detsky Razvlekatelny Park
00:27:26 12.4 Admiralsky Skver
00:27:50 13 Pollution
00:28:57 14 Sports
00:29:24 15 Twin towns and sister cities
00:29:57 16 Notable people
00:30:05 17 See also
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Vladivostok (Russian: Владивосто́к, IPA: [vlədʲɪvɐˈstok] (listen), literally 'ruler of the east') is a city and the administrative centre of the Far Eastern Federal District and Primorsky Krai, Russia, located around the Golden Horn Bay, not far from Russia's borders with China and North Korea. The population of the city as of 2018 was 604,901, up from 592,034 recorded in the 2010 Russian census. Harbin in China is about 515 kilometres (320 mi) away, while Sapporo in Japan is about 775 kilometres (482 mi) east across the Sea of Japan.
The city is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet and is the largest Russian port on the Pacific coast.
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World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as the war to end all wars, it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. An estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a direct result of the war, and it also contributed to later genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic, which caused between 50 and 100 million deaths worldwide. Military losses were exacerbated by new technological and industrial developments and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history and precipitated major political changes, including the Revolutions of 1917–1923, in many of the nations involved. Unresolved rivalries at the end of the conflict contributed to the start of World War II about twenty years later.On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, leading to the July Crisis. In response, on 23 July Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia. Serbia's reply failed to satisfy the Austrians, and the two moved to a war footing.
A network of interlocking alliances enlarged the crisis from a bilateral issue in the Balkans to one involving most of Europe. By 1914, the great powers of Europe were divided into two coalitions: the Triple Entente—consisting of France, Russia and Britain—and the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (the Triple Alliance was primarily defensive in nature, allowing Italy to stay out of the war in 1914). Russia felt it necessary to back Serbia, on 25 July issuing orders for the 'period preparatory to war', and after Austria-Hungary shelled the Serbian capital of Belgrade on the 28th, partial mobilisation was approved of the military districts nearest to Austria. General Russian mobilisation was announced on the evening of 30 July; on the 31st, Austria-Hungary and Germany did the same, while Germany demanded Russia demobilise within 12 hours. When Russia failed to comply, Germany declared war on 1 August in support of Austria-Hungary, with Austria-Hungary following suit on 6th; France ordered full mobilisation in support of Russia on 2 August.German strategy for a war on two fronts against France and Russia was to concentrate the bulk of its army in the West to defeat France within four weeks, then shift forces to the East before Russia could fully mobilise; this was later known as the Schlieffen Plan. On 2 August, Germany demanded free passage through Belgium, an essential element in achieving a quick victory over France. When this was refused, German forces entered Belgium early on the morning of 3 August and declared war with France the same day; the Belgian government invoked the 1839 Treaty of London and in compliance with its obligations under this, Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August. On 12 August, Britain and France also declared war on Austria-Hungary; on the 23rd, Japan sided with the Entente, seizing the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence by capturing German possessions in China and the Pacific. The war was fought in and drew upon each powers' colonial empires as well, spreading the conflict across the globe. The Entente and its allies would eventually become known as the Allied Powers, while the grouping of Austria-Hungary and Germany would become known as the Central Powers.
The German advance into France was halted at the Battle of the Marne and by the end of 1914, the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, marked by a long series of trench lines that changed little until 1917. The Eastern Front was marked by much greater exchanges of territory, but though Serbia was defeated in 1915, and Rom ...