Argentina registered 20,020 new cases and 12 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported on Saturday. With these figures, the total number of cases in the country rose …
Monthly Archives For January 2022
Beijing Winter Olympics fast approaching amid ongoing woes
Olympics will open on Feb. 4 and wrap up on Feb. 20. It will be the last of three consecutive Olympic Games to take place in East Asia. South Korea started the unprecedented streak with…
From a coup in Beijing to electricity blackouts: my bold predictions for 2022
So that was 2021 — what does 2022 hold in store? The year begins with Omicron peaking in early January before reducing sharply …
Question marks linger for S. Korea with Beijing Winter Olympics nearing
With only about a month left until the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, South Korea still doesn’t know if one of its best medal hopes will compete in China. That bit of…
Beijing nails coffin shut on dissent in Hong Kong
Authorities in Beijing last week forced the closure of Stand News, one of the last independent news outlets in Hong Kong, and levied new charges against Apple Daily, the city’s once-biggest …
National flag-raising ceremony held at Tian’anmen Square in Beijing
A grand national flag-raising ceremony is held at the Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, as a New Year celebration on Jan. 1, 2022. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong) A grand national flag-raising …
Covid gives China the perfect excuse to help Hong Kong self-isolate from democracy
A senior lawyer sat in a Hong Kong hotel room last week, venting his frustration with the draconian Covid-19 regulations that will confine him to his quarte …
Biden’s bolshy stance on China could be opposed by his Wall Street friends
Which brings us to Joe Biden. He is neither precise nor deliberately garbled, and often contradicts himself. But on China, he is clear: “If we don’t get moving, they’re going to eat our lunch.” He…
Peter Morici: Fixing Biden’s China policy
China’s global ambitions pose an existential threat to Western democracy, prosperity and security, but the Biden administration, preoccupied with domestic economic renewal and social justice, has not …
China claims to have beaten US to develop next generation heat-seeking hypersonic missiles that could hone in on stealth fighter jets, aircraft carriers and moving vehicles
Chinese researchers claim to have developed technology to allow a hypersonic missile to find a target based on its heat signature. Pictured: Hypersonic missiles on parade in China in 2019.
Winter Olympics: What are the seven new events at Beijing 2022? Mixed team events galore!
The women’s monobob and men’s and women’s freestyle skiing big air are coming to the Winter Olympics in February along with four new mixed team events.
China faces surge in Covid-19 cases
China ended its final week of 2021 with its biggest tally of local coronavirus cases for any seven-day period since subduing the country’s first epidemic nearly two years ago, despite an arsenal of …
China, world’s largest EV market, to reduce subsidy on new energy vehicles
China, aims for new energy vehicles (NEVs), including plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, to make up 20 per cent of auto sales by 2025.
