The largest permanent artwork commissioned in the 146-year history of “America’s Parish Church,” the painting depicts the apparition at Knock in Ireland, along with New York saints, servants of God, immigrants and first responders.
Steven Schwankert
Steven Schwankert is an award-winning writer and editor with 17 years of experience in Greater China, focusing on exploration, technology, media and culture. His book, Poseidon: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine was published in 2013 by Hong Kong University Press. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, his work has been published in The Asian Wall Street Journal, The South China Morning Post, Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. It has also appeared on the web sites of The New York Times, The Washington Post, PCWorld and MacWorld. He is a former deputy Asia editor for The Hollywood Reporter, former editor of Computerworld Hong Kong and former managing editor of asia.internet.com.
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Has China reached the limits of its power?
China’s slowing economy continues to worry international observers.
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China ups the ante in the South China Sea
President Xi has aggressively asserted Chinese territorial claims, especially maritime ones.
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Pope Francis’ comments on China ‘noted’ in Beijing
China has far less to gain from establishing relations with the Vatican than vice-versa.
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China’s Unhappy New Year
China’s management of its economy has brought out not only bears, but wolves.
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Taiwan Elects Tsai Ing-wen as Its First Female President
National election will be seen as expressing the Taiwan people’s dissatisfaction with its relationship with mainland China.
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Global Stock Markets Catch Beijing’s Flu
Investors both in the United States and overseas were still shaking from a week destabilized first by sharp exchanges between Iran and Saudi Arabia over an executed Shiite cleric and then by major plummets on China’s stock markets that led to trading being halted twice.
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Nuclear Fallout: Bomb Test Strains China-North Korea Relations
North Korea’s claimed test of a hydrogen bomb this week had one immediate casualty: the Stalinist outpost’s already strained relationship with its largest and most important neighbor, China.
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Could Xi Jingping be Time’s Person of the Year?
You heard it here first: I predict China’s President Xi Jinping will be Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
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Headlines on one-child policy change are a little misleading
The government is not granting its Han Chinese citizens the chance to have a family of any size they wish. Families are still limited to two children and must still apply for permission to have them, as they did for their single child.