It was a rare comment on Taiwan politics from a high-ranking Philippine official and sure to rankle China. Manila-Beijing ties are already on shaky ground after a year of confrontations in the South China Sea.
Monthly Archives For January 2024
China Breaks Oil Import Records in Landmark Year
China’s oil market experienced significant growth last year, with record-high imports and domestic production, indicating robust demand both domestically and internationally.
China’s GDP grows 5.2% in Q4, misses market forecast
China’s economy expanded 5.2% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, official data showed on Wednesday, missing analysts’ expectations slightly but still making it possible for Beijing to meet its …
Chinese lab crafts mutant COVID-19 strain with 100% kill streak in ‘humanized’ mice: ‘Surprisingly’ rapid death
In a Wuhan-esque study, Chinese scientists are experimenting with a mutant COVID-19 strain that has a 100% kill streak in “humanized” mice. The deadly virus — known as GX_P2V — attacked the brains of …
China’s population drops for a second straight year as deaths jump
China’s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped.
China’s population drops for 2nd year, raises long-term growth concerns
China’s population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a plunging birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn that will have profound …
China’s economy expanded 5.2% last year, hitting target of ‘about 5%’ even though recovery is uneven
China’s economy for the October-December quarter grew at a quicker rate, allowing the Chinese government to hit its target of about 5% annual growth for 2023 even though trade data and the economic re …
China’s Population Decline Accelerated Last Year
Beijing. China ended 2023 with 1.410 billion people, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday, down from 1.412 billion in 2022, when it hit a historic turning point: the first year the …
China’s Growth Slows to Three-Decade Low Excluding Pandemic
A festering property-market slowdown offsets much of the benefit of a postpandemic recovery in the world’s second-largest economy.
WRAPUP 2-China’s Q4 GDP shows patchy economic recovery, many challenges ahead
Sustained weakness in the property sector, once a key driver of the world’s second-biggest economy, continued to drag on the broader economic recovery. China’s December new home prices fell at the …
China’s population drops for second consecutive year
China’s population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a plunging birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn that will have profound …
Republicans continue to probe Coronavirus response by the federal government
In 2020, as a mystery virus spread like wildfire throughout the globe, Doctor Francis Collins was in charge at t Institutes of Health.
Beyond breathing: How COVID-19 affects your heart, brain and other organs
The risk of dangerous clotting – including deep vein thrombosis (clots in large veins) and pulmonary embolisms (clots in the lungs) – is small but stays elevated for up to a year after the infection,…
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