Beijing claimed the balloon was a civilian aircraft that was blown off course A United States decision to shoot down a Chinese balloon that Beijing claimed had veered off course has “seriously impacted and damaged” relations between the two countries, China’s foreign ministry said Monday. The aircraft, which Washington said was a spy balloon, had
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…the figures do not include those who died from Covid at home China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population has already been infected by the virus. China a week earlier said nearly 60,000 people had died with
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…US president, Biden earlier on Tuesday congratulated Sunak in a tweet. The United States President Joe Biden and Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed in talks Tuesday to work together to support Ukraine and stand up to China, the White House said. They spoke for the first time hours after Sunak became Britain’s third
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The US, Canada, UK and the EU have all slapped sanctions on Beijing over human rights abuses. It’s the first major global action against China, following years of reports about the systematic persecution of the Uyghur minority. China has hit back with sanctions of its own. China’s Wang Junzheng, the Secretary of the Party Committee
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BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, a week after Beijing threatened to retaliate for the recent revocation of the British broadcasting licence for China’s state-owned CGTN. In a statement published at midnight Beijing time on Friday, China’s National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News’s coverage of China had violated
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A former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company, China Huarong Asset Management Company, Lai Xiaomin, has been executed after a court sentenced him to death on charges of corruption, bribe taking and bigamy. Xiaomin who was sentenced to death by a court in Tianjin, east of Beijing, on January 5, was executed on
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The World Bank on Tuesday downgraded its outlook for the global economy, and warned the situation could deteriorate if Covid-19 infections accelerate or the vaccine rollout is delayed. The coronavirus pandemic also has worsened the risks surrounding the rising debt load in developing nations, and it will take a global effort to avoid a new
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The European Union (EU) and China on Wednesday signed an investment pact that will provide European companies greater access to Chinese markets and help address what Europe views as unbalanced economic ties. The deal was consummated after almost seven years of talks and will probably take at least another 12 months to take effect. It
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Eighteen miners were confirmed dead on Saturday after a carbon monoxide leak at a coal mine in southwestern China, state media reported, with rescue efforts underway to reach five others still trapped underground. Twenty-four miners were caught up in the accident at the Diaoshuidong mine in the city of Chongqing after the gas leak occurred
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The Chinese government on Thursday has suspended Nigeria temporarily from entring Asian country. The suspension includes Nigerians and other nationals in Nigeria holding valid Chinese visas or residence permits over COVID-19 pandemic. This was announced by the Embassy of China and Consulate in Nigeria. The Embassy in a statement, added that it would no longer
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A city in western China finished testing 4.7 million people for coronavirus in four days after workers at a factory tested positive, state media reported on Wednesday. Kashgar, in the far-western Xinjiang region, had tested its entire population by Tuesday after a coronavirus cluster emerged last week, according to the People’s Daily. A total of
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President Muhammadu Buhari is delighted that the bond of friendship between Nigeria and The People’s Republic of China has continued to strengthen. The President, in a letter of felicitation with President Xi Jinping on the occasion of the 71st Anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of China, and the country’s National Day, said though
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At least 17 people died on Saturday when a restaurant in northern China collapsed, state media said , with rescuers pulling dozens of survivors from the rubble and searching for others believed to be trapped .The two-storey building used for banquets came down in the morning in Xiangfen county , in Shanxi province, according to
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Floods on the upper reaches of China’s Yangtze river forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people on Tuesday and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage site. Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try to protect the 71-metre (233-foot) Leshan Giant Buddha, a UNESCO World Heritage site in southwestern Sichuan province, as muddy flood water
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Chinese authorities have granted the first invention patent to a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which experts said demonstrates the vaccine’s originality and creativity, and would enhance the international market’s trust in Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines amid the US’ groundless accusations of Chinese hackers trying to steal novel coronavirus data on treatments and vaccine development from
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