The deal came months after a dinner address by Xi to US business leaders in San Francisco in November, in which he called the country’s panda’s “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American …
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Beijing’s African Gambit Runs Into Trouble
Congo. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Beijing has decided that it needs to make concessions within its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Africa. The arrangements always …
China Sends Warships to the Middle East
China has sent a guided-missile destroyer to the Gulf of Aden as part of an anti-piracy mission amid tensions over Houthi rebel attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea Setting sail from …
Why China Doesn’t Have an Opposition Leader Like Navalny
In October 2022, when China was still under its draconian COVID-19 lockdown, a man unfurled two banners on a bridge in central Beijing, calling for an end to the “zero COVID” policy and for “despotic…
South China Sea: Manila could file case against Beijing over possible cyanide use by Chinese boats
President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr says the legal action will proceed if Chinese boats were proven to ‘intentionally destroy’ the Scarborough Shoal.
China to send new pandas to the San Diego Zoo
China will send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo this year, in a boost for what is known as “panda diplomacy” after U.S. zoos were left with almost none of…
China asks World Court to speak out on ‘unlawful’ Israeli occupation
China asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday to give its opinion on Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories, which it said was illegal. “Justice has been long delayed, …
China’s Hacking and Spying Revealed in Bombshell Leak
The documents in the bombshell 190-megabyte leak on February 16 came from I-Soon (known as Auxun in Mandarin), a private security contractor with ties to China’s top spy agency. Detailed within are …
Video shows partial bridge collapse after ship collision in China
Two people were killed after an empty container ship hit a bridge over the Pearl River near Guangzhou city, causing part of the bridge to break off, plunging vehicles into the water, Chinese …
China, the world’s biggest polluter, at risk of missing climate targets, new report finds
China, the world’s top carbon polluter, is at risk of falling short on its climate targets after approving dozens of new coal plants, according to research published Thursday. In an effort to bring …
China Accuses CIA of Launching All-Out Spy War
China’s spy agency has accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of launching an all-out spy war.”CIA has committed substantially more resources toward China-related intelligence collection, …
China plans to send more pandas to US zoo
China said Thursday it had signed agreements to send pandas to a zoo in San Diego, after nearly all the beloved black-and-white animals on loan in the United States were returned during years of …
Two giant pandas are moving to a California zoo in a rare loan from China
China is sending two giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo – the first time it has granted new panda loans to the United States in two decades.
