Dozens of makeshift centers were built and now stand empty. Now authorities want to revive a stagnating economy and attract young workers to cities by turning the structures into affordable housing.
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Dr Gareth Nye, Programme Lead for Medical Science and Chester Medical School, said the pneumonia outbreak in China could be a Covid virus but at the moment there’s no need to panic …
Philippines accuses China of shooting water cannon at its boats
The Philippines has accused China of using water cannons to obstruct three of its vessels, in the latest territorial dispute between the two countries in the South China Sea. Video footage shows …
US and Philippines condemn China coast guard’s dangerous water cannon blasts against Manila’s ships
The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a high-seas assault by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to …
China raises complaint over Taiwan’s participation in COP28
The Chinese delegation at COP28 on Saturday raised a complaint over what it said was unacceptable talk about Taiwan’s participation in the U.N. climate summit by other countries.
Moody’s downgrades China’s debt; Beijing insists “unnecessary to worry”
Credit risk agency Moody’s is warning about growing problems with the Chinese economy, and has cut its outlook on government-s debt to negative from stable. China has become the world’s second largest …
How Philippines’ South China Sea ‘name and shame’ strategy put Beijing on the back foot
With ‘assertive transparency’, the Philippines has shown the limits of China’s ‘grey-zone’ coercion – and provided a strategy other Southeast Asian claimant states could emulate.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the AI world by storm a year ago and China is still playing catch-up as US piles on the pressure
At a study session of the Politburo five years ago, President Xi Jinping said artificial intelligence (AI) was a strategic priority and that China must occupy the “commanding heights” in core AI …
Arthur Cyr: President Biden’s sensible step regarding China
Washington should overtly emulate that style, especially after the disruptive, erratic character of U.S. foreign relations during the rocky Trump regime.
‘China’s economic recovery is still at a critical stage,’ says President Xi Jinping
“At present, the country’s economic recovery is still at a critical stage,” Xi said at a meeting of China’s Communist Party Politburo
China Can’t Shake Deflation
The weak inflation figures add to a run of signals suggesting that China’s economy is losing momentum again after modest interest-rate cuts and other small stimulus steps drove a pickup in growth in …
China LandSpace’s methane-powered rocket sends satellites into orbit
A rocket developed by LandSpace Technology on Saturday launched three satellites into orbit, a milestone in the Chinese private rocket startup’s mission to test whether its vehicle using methane and …
