According to Dr Chris Murray, director of a health research center at the University of Washington in Seattle, a dangerous new Covid-19 variant is unlikely to be spread in China. His remarks on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Friday come as US
The period from the end of the Han Dynasty when an earlier yet modern version of China was being established marked the period of disunion in China. During this time, various factions and warlords fought to control the country. It was a
China‘s military dispatched 71 planes and seven ships to Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan’s defense ministry said Monday after China expressed displeasure with Taiwan-related provisions in the United States’ annual defense spending bill passed on
Soldiers from India and China clashed this week along their disputed border, according to India’s defence minister, in the latest violence along the disputed border since a deadly skirmish in June 2020. According to Rajnath Singh, who addressed members in parliament on
Mongolian protesters gathered in the capital for a fifth day on Thursday to decry perceived government corruption, despite the arrests of eight officials suspected of so-called coal theft. Thousands of people have gathered at Ulaanbaatar’s Sukhbaatar Square since Sunday, requesting the authorities
Authorities claim that new virus varieties are weaker, and China is relaxing some of the strictest anti-virus measures in the world. However, they have not yet indicated when they could abandon the “zero-Covid” plan, which has driven millions of people indoors, sparked
China confirmed two more COVID-19 deaths on Sunday, as several localities move carefully to lift anti-pandemic rules in the face of growing public outrage. According to the National Health Commission, one death has been reported in each of the provinces of Shandong
An altercation in the disputed South China Sea resulted in the Chinese coast guard forcibly seizing floating debris that the Philippine navy was bringing to its island, according to a Philippine military officer on Monday. It looked that the debris was from
One of the two giant pandas that China gave Taiwan as a gift, Tuan Tuan, passed away on Saturday following a brief illness, according to the Taipei Zoo. Although there was no immediate word on the cause of death, earlier reports indicated
Recently, there have been flawed notions that “education is a scam”; that people should quit going to school and go to the ‘streets’ to hustle. A lot of reasons have been put forward regarding why you should give up studying and rather
A confrontation between locals and law enforcement officers implementing Covid-19 quarantine rules resulted in seven persons being jailed, according to police in northeastern China. China is experiencing an increase in incidences of violence, with 2,230 occurrences in Guangzhou, a centre of manufacturing
Migrant workers in central China are fleeing one of the world’s largest iPhone Factories amid a coronavirus outbreak in Zhengzhou, prompting local officials to scramble to devise plans to isolate them once they return to their hometowns. In the seven days ending
Ahead of a significant Communist Party meeting in Beijing the next week, Chinese localities were enforcing new lockdowns and travel restrictions after the number of daily COVID-19 instances increased during a weeklong break. According to state broadcaster CCTV, the most recent lockdown
With World War II ending, the abused Chinese began to experience some display of love and support from the Americans who initially abhorred and scorned them. On migrating to the United States during the Gold Rush, the Chinese went on to build
The bloody Saturday picture was extensively published between September–October 1937 and, in less than a month, had reached an audience of more than 136 million viewers. It displays a crying Chinese baby sitting within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s south railway station.
China reaffirmed its claim to Taiwan on Saturday, telling international leaders that anybody who stands in the way of its ambition to reunify with the self-governing island will be “crushed by the wheels of history.” The language was strong but not out