Cooks at Mina’s Restaurant discuss plans for their New Year’s celebration in 2019 with deaf waiters and friends. [Photo provided to China Daily] The couple believed artists would be the majority of their customers,
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Some in China return to regular activity after COVID infections
Some people in China’s key cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan braved the cold and a spike in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity on Monday, confident of a boost to the economy as…
Alibaba, Tencent lay-offs burst property bubbles in headquarters cities of Hangzhou, Shenzhen, sending prices plunging
Transactions and prices are down while second-hand listings are up in formerly hot districts such as Hangzhou’s Yuhang and Shenzhen’s Nanshan; Home prices in one prime neighbourho …
China Is Preparing for War, Retired General Warns
“Xi Jinping has made it quite clear…that he is going to make, from his perspective, China whole again by subsuming Taiwan,” H.R. McMaster said Sunday.
China marks 3-year anniversary of first COVID-19 cases with estimated 9,000 deaths per year
COVID-19 is surging to astronomical levels in Mainland China, an estimated 9,000 deaths a day and more than 250 million cases in a month, three yearsafter the nation reported cases of pneumonia of unk …
NASA chief warns China could claim territory on the moon if it wins new ‘space race’
China could establish a base on the moon and keep the U.S. out if it wins the new space race, NASA’s top administrator Bill Nelson warned on Sunday.
Blinken discussed U.S.-China relationship in call with China’s Qin
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with incoming Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang over the phone on Sunday, Blinken said on Twitter, after China last week appointed its ambassador to the …
COVID-19-mutation risk drives rush to test travelers from China
The latest restrictions come after the U.K. and France on Friday joined the rush of countries testing passengers and sequencing samples from people arriving from China in an effort to identify any …
Australia and China both gave up on COVID-zero just as an Omicron outbreak hit. Here’s why the situation is so much worse for Beijing
Australia’s experience of moving to a model of living with COVID in January has some distinct similarities to China’s current transition away from COVID-zero.
Foreign students expected to stream back Beijing
After three years of pandemic controls that limited academic exchanges between China and the rest of the world, students have begun making plans to study abroad again, media reports said.
COVID surge in China provides fertile ground for new variants, scientists say
It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something entirely different, scientists say. Every new infection offers a chance for the …
TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl,’ incoming GOP China committee chair says
TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China.
Canada, Australia Impose COVID Rules On Travelers From China
China’s battling a nationwide outbreak of the coronavirus after abruptly easing restrictions that were in place for much of the pandemic.