China: President Xi Jinping was quoted as saying after meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday that China is willing to continue enhancing its tactical cooperation with the country. According to the standard news agency Xinhua, China is also willing to improve coordination and cooperation with Belarus in internationalContinue Reading
BEIJING: On Monday, December 4, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing for the next time this year. In the midst of harsh Western sanctions, the politely reclusive president discussed his nation’s economic ties to the Eastern superpower. According to Belarussian state media, the nearContinue Reading
The Hong Kong Journalists Association said in a statement on Friday (Dec 1) it was “deeply concerned” about the safety and whereabouts of a South China Morning Post reporter who has been unreachable since attending an event in Beijing in late October. Minnie Chan, a senior reporter covering security mattersContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday (Dec 1) asked President Joe Biden’s administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese respiratory illness cases. “We should immediately restrict travel between the United States and (China) until we know more about theContinue Reading
SEOUL: Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7 years, down from 83.6 years in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday (Dec 1), after life expectancy fell in 2022 for the first time since 1970, hit by a spike in deaths linked to COVID-19. FollowingContinue Reading
Meta on Thursday (Nov 30) warned that deceptive online campaigns based in China were taking aim at 2024 elections in the United States and elsewhere. The tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram said it has taken down five coordinated influence networks out of China this year. “Foreign threat actors areContinue Reading
TAIPEI: China’s leadership is too “overwhelmed” with its internal problems to consider an invasion of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with the New York Times. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military pressure against the island over the past fourContinue Reading
TAIPEI: China’s leadership is too “overwhelmed” with its internal problems to consider an invasion of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with the New York Times. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military pressure against the island over the past fourContinue Reading
BEIJING: China on Thursday (Nov 30) hailed the late Henry Kissinger as an “old friend”, paying tribute to a diplomat central to establishing ties between Beijing and Washington. Kissinger, a former US secretary of state whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, diedContinue Reading
UNITED NATIONS: A recent increase in respiratory illnesses in China is a common issue faced by all countries and Chinese authorities have it under effective control, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday (Nov 29). The World Health Organization (WHO) last week requested China provide detailed information on anContinue Reading