China has dispatched a team to the summit of Mount Everest, where they will draw a line to divide China’s side from Nepal’s.
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New Shenzhen design institute promises to make the city a hub of innovation
New building projects are going to transform Shenzhen, China, including one enormous floating campus that’s going to build the future of design in the city.
An escaped leopard is eluding its would-be captors in China. Officials sent hundreds of drones to find it.
Two of the three big cats that escaped from a safari park in April have been recaptured, but one remains on the loose.
Warren Buffett-backed BYD presses ahead with plans to list semiconductor unit on Shenzhen’s ChiNext tech board
BYD says its legal advisers approve of the plan to go ahead with the spin off and listing of the 72.3 per cent-owned semiconductor unit.
China threatens campus free speech, says Johnson
China poses a “genuine and real threat to freedom of speech” at British universities, a former minister has warned.Lord Johnson of Marylebone said Beijing was seeking to influence academic research …
U.S. Calls Xinjiang an ‘Open-Air Prison,’ Decries Religious Persecution by China
The Chinese government has turned its western Xinjiang province into essentially an “open-air prison,” a U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday as the department published a report that …
Coronavirus: China gives nothing away on whether it supports waiving vaccine IP protections
Success of a proposed intellectual property waiver to ramp up global manufacturing may still depend on whether pharmaceutical firms share technical know-how.
U.S., UK, Germany take on China at U.N. over Xinjiang
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) -Dozens of countries raised awareness about China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang at a meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday, angering Beijing, …
China Weighs New Economic Envoy to U.S.
Senior Chinese official Liu He, who oversaw a trade deal with the Trump White House, might be replaced with the younger Hu Chunhua.
Inquiry Into Early Covid-19 Response Finds WHO Delays but Spares China
The World Health Organization should be given the power to swiftly investigate threatening pathogens in any country, a review board said.
Bangladesh receives China-donated COVID-19 vaccines
Bangladesh on Wednesday received a batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine donated by China. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming formally handed over the vaccines to Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK …
China has used pandemic to boost global image, report says
While Covid-19 crisis has led to more positive reporting on Beijing, global news outlets have become more reliant on official views …
California city councilmember’s email called coronavirus the “China Virus;” she says she’s not racist
Jessica Alexander, whose May 4 note refers to federal pandemic dollars as “China Virus Relief funding,” says it “breaks my heart to sit here and have people tell me that …
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