China said on Monday it will simplify visa applications for foreign nationals who have been inoculated with Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines, its latest small step towards normalising international … ( read original story …)
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Brazil Needs Vaccines. China Is Benefiting.
China is a major supplier of coronavirus vaccine, giving it enormous leverage in pandemic-ravaged nations. Brazil, recently hostile to the Chinese company Huawei, has suddenly changed its stance. ( read original story …)
Biggest sandstorm in a decade turns Beijing skies yellow: “Like the end of the world”
Saharan dust cloud covers parts of U.S. Saharan dust cloud covers parts of U.S. 02:04 Beijing was cloaked in thick yellow and orange smog on Monday with pollution levels surging off the charts as the…
In Japan, top Biden administration officials attempt to set the tone on China
President Biden’s secretary of state and defense secretary began a multi-nation tour in Asia with a stop in Japan as they seek to address concerns about China with allies and partners in the region, ……
‘It looks like the end of the world’: China’s worst sandstorm in a decade chokes Beijing
This is the most intense sandstorm in China in the past 10 years,” China’s National Meteorological Center said Monday. ( read original story …)
China briefs European envoys on WHO coronavirus origin quest
There is no evidence suggesting either bats or pangolins were the origin host of the novel coronavirus , one of China’s top health experts told European diplomats in Beijing last week. Briefing envoys … (…
Beijing choked in duststorm stirred by heavy northwest winds
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese capital Beijing was shrouded in thick brown dust on Monday due to strong winds blowing in from the Gobi desert and parts of northwestern China, in what the weather ……
A Sandstorm in China Revives Memories of ‘Airpocalypses’ Past
China’s Communist Party has made great strides in reducing the country’s choking pollution, but a perfect storm of winds from the north and a post-pandemic industrial rebound created dangerously high … ( read original story…
Analysis: China’s ambitious COVID-19 vaccination plan to test its production capability
BEIJING (Reuters) – China aims to vaccinate at least half a billion of its people against COVID-19 in four months, a challenge that will test the country’s formidable industrial might just as it … (…
China-developed telescope captures images of solar corona
Designed to block light from the main solar surface in order to observe the corona, the coronagraph, with a caliber of 50 mm, is positioned on a 4,800-meter-high mountain in Daocheng County of Ganzi ……
Shenzhen center Shen matches CBA legends with all-round performance
Shen Zijie (front) attacks during Shenzhen Aviators’ CBA match against Beijing royal Fighters in Zhuji, east China on March 15, 2021. (Xinhua/Jiang Han) Shenzhen Aviators center Shen Zijie joins … ( read original story …)
Beijing chokes on yellow dust during biggest sandstorm in almost a decade
The Chinese capital was choking on sand and dust on Monday, as the biggest sandstorm in nearly a decade swept over the city turning the skies an eerie shade of orange. ( read original story…
Apocalyptic skies as Beijing hit by worst sandstorm in a decade
The Chinese capital of Beijing was covered in thick smog on Monday as it experienced what its weather bureau has called the worst sandstorm in a decade. The storm caused an unprecedented spike in air…
