Rescue workers help a miner as he is brought to the surface at the Hushan gold mine after the January 10 explosion trapped workers underground, in Qixia, Shandong province, China January 24, 2021. ( read…
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China pushes fringe theories on pandemic origins, virus
Chinese state media have played up questions about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could be lethal to the very old. A government spokesperson suggests the coronavirus could have emerged from … ( read original…
China says coronavirus traces found in vaccination sites, but not infectious
China has found harmless traces of the novel coronavirus in some COVID-19 inoculation sites potentially linked to vaccine liquid, its disease control centre said. Samples taken from tables, walls, … ( read original story …)
Contentious cruising: China’s Paracel Islands tourism is about more than travel
After 11 months’ suspension due to the pandemic, China’s cruise ships have set sail again. Two Chinese cruise ships are running from the port of Sanya to the Paracel Islands, an archipelago in the ……
Coronavirus live news: locked down city in China faces food shortages; global cases near 100m
Benjamin Netanyahu says ‘we are hermetically sealing the country’; world nears 100m cases; residents in Chinese city of Tonghua complain of food shortages … ( read original story …)
China’s Paracel Islands tourism is about more than travel
After 11 months’ suspension due to the pandemic, China’s cruise ships have set sail again. Two Chinese cruise ships are running from the port of Sanya to the Paracel Islands, an archipelago in the ……
A year after Wuhan’s lockdown: China’s former Covid-19 epicenter has emotional scars
On the surface, Wuhan bustles like a city that has never known a paralyzing 76-day lockdown. But the severe measures also came at a huge personal cost to residents, and despite the apparent return to…
Five Takeaways From the Developing Space War Between China and the U.S.
The Biden administration is inheriting the menace of Chinese antisatellite arms as well as an innovative way of trying to defuse the escalating threat. ( read original story …)
How Space Became the Next ‘Great Power’ Contest Between the U.S. and China
The Biden administration faces not only waves of Chinese antisatellite weapons but a history of jumbled responses to the intensifying threat. ( read original story …)
Pacific island nations turn to Beijing-backed AIIB as pandemic sinks economies
Pacific island nations are turning to China-led agencies to plug funding gaps in their pandemic-ravaged budgets after exhausting financing options from traditional western partners, stoking fears the … ( read original story …)
China was largest recipient of FDI in 2020: Report
China was the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak spread across the world during the course of the year, with the Chinese economy having brought in $163 … (…
11 miners rescued in China after being trapped for 2 weeks after explosion
Chinese state television showed miners being hauled up one by one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness. ( read original story …)
What does Beijing’s current silence over Britain’s citizenship offer to Hongkongers mean for the fate of BN(O)?
However China strikes back, pragmatism should prevail to allow Sino-British relations to survive the row, even if the BN(O) arrangement doesn’t. ( read original story …)
