Shenzhen will be continuing China’s digital yuan pilot program by issuing 20 million digital yuan (about $3.1 million) to citizens via a lottery. ( read original story …)
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Pro-Beijing Hong Kong politicians to be vaccinated in mainland
Beijing’s politicians in Hong Kong is set to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in mainland China, ahead of the rest of the city’s population, in order to attend the Chinese Communist party’s premier … ( read…
Beijing launches mass testing as China reports slight drop in daily COVID cases
Beijing launched mass COVID-19 testing in parts of city on Friday, while Shanghai was testing all hospital staff, as China battles the worst outbreak since March 2020. ( read original story …)
Newspapers Feature Stories on Biden in Beijing, China
China’s main, state-controlled newspapers, featuring front page stories on President Joseph Biden’s inauguration, are sold at a news kiosk in Beijing on Thursday, January 21, 2021. China sees the … ( read original story …)
Expert says Biden’s presidency creates opportunity for China and U.S. to reengage with each other
The Biden administration has inherited a complicated and, at times, tense relationship with China. In recent years, the two world powers have clashed over a range of issues from trade to the origins … (…
China revives conspiracy theory that links coronavirus with US army lab Fort Detrick as Beijing’s state TV suggests ‘something fishy’ was going on there
China’s state broadcaster CCTV told its millions of viewers that ‘something fishy’ was going on at the Fort Detrick lab, reviving the rumour that the contagion could have come from there. ( read original story …)
Will Biden ease the sky-high tension between the U.S. and China?
The chasm between the two superpowers deepened considerably over the last 4 years, but one veteran Chinese analyst sees clear opportunities “to reengage.” … ( read original story …)
Biden admin blasts China for ‘cynical’ Inauguration Day sanctions on Trump officials
Speaking after the rebuke from Washington, China’s foreign ministry said Thursday that “if both countries work together, better angels in the U.S.-China relations could defeat evil forces.” … ( read original story …)
Twitter’s Labels Cut Likes and Retweets for China State Media Accounts: Report
Prominent Communist Party-owned outlets like China’s nationalist tabloid “Global Times” saw 31 percent fewer likes following the roll-out of Twitter’s labeling policy, the China Media Project found. ( read original story …)
China reports more COVID-19 cases in Beijing, Shanghai
Chinese authorities are reporting new COVID-19 cases in the country’s two largest cities after imposing a lockdown of 1.7 million people in Beijing. ( read original story …)
COVID-19 Has Now Been Found In Ice Cream… In China
From respiratory droplets transmitted through direct contact, COVID-19 has now appeared in frozen food in China. ( read original story …)
The right condemns China over its Uighur abuses. The left must do so too
In the dying days of the Trump administration, outgoing secretary of state Mike Pompeo declared that China was committing genocide against the Uighur Muslims. Yet there is no reason to believe he was … (…
Rebuked China echoes Biden’s call for ‘better angels’ to heal relations with America
Within hours of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, his foreign policy team began wrangling with one of the administration’s biggest challenges: China. The U.S. labeled as “unproductive and cynical” a … ( read original story …)
