Nearly 34,000 Disneyland staff and park-goers shuffled through tents set up for coronavirus tests, as fireworks exploded above their heads—a surreal scene that has become the norm in China as part of …
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Beijing hosts BRICS Seminar on Governance 2021
Aiming to promote governance experiences in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, more than 150 representatives – mainly former BRICS dignitaries – gathered in Beijing and online on Tuesday …
Robots ready for Beijing Winter Olympic Games to reduce contact amid the COVID-19 pandemic
The venues for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games have been equipped with all types of high-tech tools to ensure the global sports event is held without a hitch. Among these, robots built for various …
Kazakh food exports to China plummet
Citing coronavirus, China has selectively banned imports from Kazakhstan, frustrating Kazakh farmers and breeding skepticism about Beijing’s real intentions.
China’s digital currency sees soaring growth in users as transactions near $10 billion
As of the end of October, more than 140 million people have opened wallets for the digital yuan, according to an official with China’s central bank.
GT investigates: 3 possible routes for China’s fresh flare-up shed light on COVID-19 origins
China on Wednesday recorded the highest one-day tally of novel coronavirus locally transmitted cases in this fresh flare-up, taking the total number of cases that spread to 18 provinces and …
China is suffering its most widespread Covid-19 outbreak since Wuhan
More than 600 locally-transmitted cases have been found in 19 of China’s 31 provinces amid what the government called a ‘serious’ new outbreak of the infectious Delta variant.
World Economic Forum event in China postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak
The World Economic Forum event scheduled in China this month has been postponed after COVID-19 cases in the city of Tianjin hit a three-month high, according to …
China’s nuclear expansion outpacing projected timelines, Pentagon report says
The Pentagon now estimates China will have 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030 — more than double its estimates from last year.
China hits back at criticism of Xi’s absence from COP26
Beijing has hit back at US criticism of Xi Jinping’s absence from the COP26 climate summit and said that the Chinese president was not allowed to join the main stage by video link. The spat…
China Could Have 1,000 Nuclear Warheads by 2030, Pentagon Says
Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Beijing the “No. 1” nation-state military challenger to the United States.
China plans to quadruple nuclear weapons stockpile, Pentagon says
Forecast of 1,000 warheads by 2030 is a sharp increase from previous estimate in ‘game-changer’ for Sino-US relations …
China’s nuclear stockpile growing at ‘accelerating pace,’ will have 1,000 warheads by 2030: Pentagon
China is building nuclear warheads at an “accelerating pace” and will have 1,000 by the end of the decade, according to the Pentagon’s new China report released Wednesday after a two-month delay.
