Washington: When veteran US diplomat Kurt Campbell travelled to the Solomon Islands to counter Beijing’s influence in the South Pacific country, he quickly saw just how far China would go to spread its message. The Biden administration’s Asia czar woke up one morning in 2022 to a long article in the local press about the … Read more
China said a pledge it signed Monday with four other nuclear nations to prevent atomic weapons spreading will “increase mutual trust” and reduce the risk of nuclear conflict. The official Xinhua news agency quoted vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu as saying the joint agreement “will help increase mutual trust and replace competition among major powers … Read more
The policy-setting body of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of divergent recoveries from the Covid-19 pandemic, pledging to strengthen cooperation to expedite universal vaccination. “The global economic recovery continues. But divergences between economies persist, reflecting stark differences in vaccine access and policy support,” the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) said in a … Read more
China on Sunday said it has administered over one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country. China has accelerated its pace of free COVID-19 vaccinations for the whole nation since late March and administered a billion doses by Saturday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said. The NHC, however, did not say how many people … Read more
Over 850,000 children in the US have tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic in the now worst-hit country, according to a new report of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. A total of 61,447 new child cases were reported last week from October 22 to … Read more
The successful experiment marks an important breakthrough in China’s technology to reuse spacecraft, which would provide the country more convenient and cheaper space round-trips for it to use the space in a peaceful way, Xinhua said. Source link
By Javier C. Hernández China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled an outspoken and prominent property tycoon who denounced the country’s authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, paving the way for his criminal prosecution and escalating its efforts to quash dissent among the elite. The party announced the expulsion of the tycoon, Ren Zhiqiang, late Thursday and said … Read more