Above Photo: Beijing Olympics to be held in 2022 (@2022_Beijing / Twitter) On Monday, the current U.S Joe Biden administration confirmed it would not be sending any government officials to the Beijing Olympics. In response, the Chinese Foreign Minister declared the move a statement of ideological prejudice. Jen Psaki, Press Secretary for the White House alleged as the reason for this diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, supposed crimes against humanity committed by Chinese authorities and abuses of human rights. The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated the United States is using Washington’s ideological prejudice to disrupt the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, […]
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A stolen, 9-foot Chinese calligraphy scroll believed to have been written by former Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong has been found sliced in half by an unsuspecting, second-hand buyer. Hong Kong authorities announced Thursday that they had located the whereabouts of a Mao calligraphy scroll valued at around $645 million. “Someone thought the calligraphy was too long – 2.8 meters in length – and it was difficult to show and display it. That’s why it was cut in half,” said Tony Ho Chun Tung, senior superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, as reported by the […]
Chinese electric carmaker Xpeng revealed it is working on a flying car model and showed off a prototype of the vehicle at the Beijing motor show – the biggest international event held for the industry since the pandemic began. During the show, which kicked off on Saturday, the Chinese rival to American EV maker Tesla said that it wants to invest in flying car technology. According to its CEO, He Xiaopeng, the carmaker is funding air taxi startup Xpeng Heitech, in which he owns a majority stake. Also on rt.com Chinese electric car maker Nio ready to challenge Tesla in major […]
Beijing has accused Washington of “provoking trouble” after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country’s general consulate in New York is used for espionage, rejecting the allegation as “malicious slander.” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin hit back at Pompeo on Friday, after the top US diplomat told the New York Post that Beijing was running a spying operation out of its New York consulate. “Pompeo’s allegations concerning Chinese diplomatic and consular missions in the US and their staff are purely malicious slanders,” Wang said at a press briefing, insisting that Chinese staff act in “strict accordance” with international […]
Chinese students whose visas were revoked by the US were persecuted for political reasons, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said, adding that Beijing reserves the right to respond to the move. The visa move by Washington amounts to “outright political persecution and racial discrimination” of Chinese students and a violation of their human rights, the ministry’s spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said. The revocation of visas and other anti-Chinese steps by the US “run counter to its self-proclaimed openness and freedom,” he added. The spokesman urged Washington to “immediately stop its unreasonable restrictions and suppression of Chinese students.” Beijing “reserves the right to […]
In the latest verbal spat between Beijing and Canberra, China has accused Australia of oppressing its reporters as well as slamming its “blatant irrational behavior.” A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, alleged that four Chinese journalists had been harassed in June this year, noting that the Australian authorities had searched their homes and seized items including laptops, cellphones and even a child’s toy tablet. Zhao, in a daily briefing, requested that Australia “immediately stop such blatant irrational behaviors, stop harassing and oppressing Chinese personnel in Australia under whatever pretext.” Beijing also claimed that, according to the Australian side, the journalists […]
The ambitious multi-million pound project will work along with two major government investment strategies aimed at bolstering domestic technologies amid Washington’s contentious trade war. Chinese tech giants such as Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) are set to launch a “domestic replacement” fund by the end of 2020 to boost mainland firms hit by US sanctions, reports revealed. China Europe Capital, a venture capital firm, plans to raise 5bn yuan (£566.3m) to facilitate start-ups in the semiconductor, artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G industries, chairman Zhang Jun said in a statement. “China and the US are in a Great Power […]
Military tensions are growing between the US and China as Washington continues to pursue a policy of attempting to dominate global affairs, Mike Wong, the vice president of the San Francisco chapter of Veterans for Peace, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Friday. “There’s been a steady upbeat in US naval exercises in both the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait,” Wong told host Brian Becker on Friday. “We sent two carrier battle groups together running through the South China Sea. That started it off. Now, we’re doing other ships. We sent a missile cruiser by just yesterday and, of […]
Donald Trump’s national security advisor has tried to justify Washington’s air and sea operations in the South China Sea by saying the US has the “freedom” to do so, and dismissing all of Beijing’s objections. “The US always reserves its right to have freedom of navigation and freedom of aviation,” Robert O’Brien told the Atlantic Council on Friday. “I certainly reject any Chinese claims that flights over the South China Sea … constitute some sort of breach of a norm or a rule.” He added that, to him, it seems Beijing seeks “to annex a vast swath of the Western Pacific […]
Chinese citizens could soon abandon their iPhones for good if Washington bans popular messaging app WeChat, Beijing has warned, pointing to survey data showing most consumers are ready to ditch Apple. “If WeChat is banned, then there will be no reason why Chinese shall keep iPhone and Apple products,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijan tweeted on Thursday, sharing a video from his most recent press conference, where he accused the US administration of “piracy” over a ban on the chat app ordered earlier this month. Zhao said he was aware of a survey, conducted by Chinese social media platform Weibo, which […]
Earlier this week, Washington slapped sanctions on 24 Chinese companies over their alleged role in building military fortifications on artificial islands in the South China Sea. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper slammed Beijing during his visit to Palau, stating that China has repeatedly fallen short of promises to follow international laws. “Communist China is exerting financial and political pressure, publicly and privately, on many Indo-Pacific and European nations – large and small – while pursuing new strategic relationships worldwide… In fact, the smaller the country, the heavier the hand of Beijing”, Esper said. The official stressed that Beijing seems to be […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/05/1080077510_0:0:1355:762_1200x675_80_0_0_1ffa1c782a27839ec1694448dd80e4f4.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202008261080285083-beijing-reportedly-fires-2-missiles-into-south-china-sea-in-warning-to-us/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – China fired two missiles into the South China Sea on Wednesday in an act of “warning” to the United States after a US spy plane intruded its army’s no-fly airspace, a source close to the Chinese military told the South China Morning Post newspaper. “This is China’s response to the potential risks brought by the increasingly frequent incoming US warplanes and military vessels in the South China Sea,” the source said, as quoted in the report, adding “China doesn’t want the neighbouring countries to misunderstand Beijing’s goals.” The missiles included a […]
In a promising development, the last remaining coronavirus patients have been discharged from the hospital in the Chinese capital, where “wartime-like” quarantine measures were in force just two months ago. No hospital in Beijing is now dealing with Covid-19 cases, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. The last two patients, who were being treated at the Beijing Ditan Hospital, were sent home the day before. One of these cases was attributed to a spike in coronavirus infections in the northeastern city of Dalian, while another caught the contagion abroad, the city health authorities said. Meanwhile, no new locally transmitted or […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104760/61/1047606188_0:270:5184:3186_1200x675_80_0_0_7226f1f3193ba2714706688d3ee7bf83.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202008221080242362-beijing-has-no-intention-or-interest-to-interfere-in-us-domestic-affairs-chinese-embassy-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Chinese Embassy in the United States said in a statement on Friday that Beijing has no intention to interfere in the US presidential election. “We have no intention or interest to get involved in American domestic affairs”, the statement said. The Chinese Embassy added that Beijing is ready to work with the Trump administration to resolve current bilateral issues. The Chinese mission was responding to a Washington Post report about whether China would prefer President Donald Trump or Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Earlier this month, the US intelligence community […]
China will stand up against the pressure the United States is piling on Huawei, the Foreign Ministry said the day after Washington tightened existing restrictions on Chinese tech firms. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian lashed out at the US during the daily press briefing on Tuesday, pushing back against America’s latest crackdown on tech giant Huawei. The US is utilizing unfounded national security concerns to target Huawei and other Chinese companies, Zhao said, describing it as “hegemonic behavior.” Reiterating previous rhetoric, he stated that the US’ targeting of Huawei undermines the foundations of free trade and fair competition. His statements […]
Hong Kong police officers searching the newsroom of the Apply Daily newspaper Monday after arresting the paper’s publisher, Jimmy Lai. AP hide caption toggle caption AP Hong Kong police officers searching the newsroom of the Apply Daily newspaper Monday after arresting the paper’s publisher, Jimmy Lai. AP Textbooks censored. Teachers investigated for improper speech. Students arrested and charged with secession for their social media posts. Just over a month after Beijing imposed a national security law in Hong Kong, authorities are targeting in rapid succession figures at all levels of Hong Kong’s civil society and education sectors, despite assurances from Beijing […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202008041080052188-beijing-ready-to-retaliate-if-all-chinese-journalists-forced-to-leave-us—global-times/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – China has prepared for a worst-case scenario, in which all Chinese journalists will have to leave the United States amid the ongoing row, and is ready to take retaliatory measures concerning US journalists based in Hong Kong, Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese official Global Times newspaper, said on Tuesday. “From what I know, given that the US side hasn’t renewed visa of Chinese journalists, Chinese side has prepared for the worst scenario that all Chinese journalists have to leave the US. If that’s the case, Chinese side will retaliate, […]
On Tuesday, US authorities gave China 72 hours to shut down its Houston, Texas Consulate, accusing its staff of systematically engaging in espionage. Beijing responded by ordering US diplomats to leave America’s diplomatic mission in Chengdu, with Washington claiming that China has no right to respond in that kind of tit-for-tat manner. China strongly protests US officials’ “forcible entry” into the Chinese diplomatic mission in Houston on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has announced. “China has expressed strong opposition and a firm protest against the forcible entry of the US side in the territory of the Chinese consulate general in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107494/85/1074948580_0:76:3371:1972_1200x675_80_0_0_0beaa72a34752203d6bea51368b47579.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007251079980554-beijing-has-no-legal-basis-for-claims-in-south-china-sea-australian-government-says/ Earlier, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States aims to form a new alliance with other countries to counter China with combined economic and military force. Australia’s mission to the UN wrote in a filing that there is no legal basis to China’s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea. “There is no legal basis for China to draw straight baselines connecting the outermost points of maritime features or ‘island groups’ in the South China Sea,” Australia’s mission said. “Australia rejects China’s claim to ‘historic rights’ or ‘maritime rights and interests’ as […]
The FBI has claimed that Chinese researchers with secret military ties are active in dozens of US cities, just as the top US diplomat urged the ‘free world’ to unite against Beijing and cut the ‘Frankenstein monster’s tentacles.’ Through a series of recent interviews, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says it uncovered a “concerted effort” by a number of Chinese citizens conducting scientific research in the US to “hide their true affiliation” to the People’s Liberation Army, with the intent to “take advantage of the United States and the American people.” Four of those individuals have since been charged for visa […]
Chinese Foreign Ministry has ordered the US government to shutter a diplomatic office in Chengdu, a move Beijing deemed a tit-for-tat response to Washington’s recent expulsion of Chinese consulate staff from a facility in Texas. “China has decided to revoke the license for the establishment and operation of the US Consulate General in Chengdu and put forward specific requirements for the Consulate General to stop all business and activities,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday morning. The current situation between China and the United States is something China does not want to see, and the responsibility rests entirely […]
US President Donald Trump said he could shutter additional Chinese consulates following the closure of a diplomatic facility in Texas, leaving the door open for further escalation as tensions soar between the two nations. The comment came during a White House presser on Wednesday, following the State Department’s decision to order a Chinese consulate in Houston to shut down within 72 hours “in order to protect American intellectual property and Americans,” according to a department spokesperson. “I guess they were burning documents and burning papers,” Trump said, referring to the Chinese consulate staff. Also on rt.com US abruptly informs Beijing to CLOSE consulate in […]
If Trump said this you’d never hear the end of it. On the same day Joe Biden accuses President Trump of being a racist — he dropped this line: Joe Biden: Look what he’s doing now. He’s blaming everything on China. He’s blaming everything on the Chinese. And people don’t make a distinction. As you well know from a South Korean and someone from Beijing. They make no distinction. It’s Asia. And that’s the way and he’s just using it as a wedge. Wow. TRENDING: Photo Appears to Show Black Lives Matter Supporters Holding Down and Kneeling on Neck of White […]
22 Jul, 2020 07:33 Follow RT on The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the US asked it to close down its consulate in Houston, Texas. Beijing condemned the move, promising retaliation if the decision is not reversed. Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times newspaper, tweeted that Beijing was given 72 hours to vacate the consulate building. “This is a crazy move,” he wrote. The US asked China to close Consulate General in Houston in 72 hours. This is a crazy move. — Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) July 22, 2020 DETAILS TO FOLLOW Follow RT on Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105375/62/1053756206_0:183:3500:2151_1200x675_80_0_0_7ed84ed862c93e5ae6dc18d2ebdfec9d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202007201079939842-beijing-announces-test-of-new-helicopter-fired-ground-attack-missile/ Chinese media reported last week the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had tested a new kind of air-to-surface missile for its attack helicopter fleet. The Global Times recently reported on the test, noting an undisclosed type of helicopter had performed the test at a PLA site in Alxa, Inner Mongolia, on June 22. The test was successful. “In the whole world, [the missile] is in a leading position,” an unidentified employee of the Aviation Industry Corp of China told China Aviation News, a company-affiliated publication, on Tuesday. “The missile is likely to excel at range, […]
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration was considering introducing across-the-board travel restrictions against members of China’s Communist Party and their families, with the reported proposal targeting as many as 270 million people. China’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed the contents of a report suggesting that Washington is preparing to introduce travel restrictions against members of the Chinese Communist Party (CPP), saying the idea as “absurd” if the report is accurate. “If the report is true, then the US is publicly choosing to be in opposition with 1.4 billion Chinese people,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/10/1079907840_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_a03b91743b917733045aab5b3b949d86.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007161079907888-ottawa-working-with-beijing-to-begin-testing-of-chinese-covid-19-vaccine-trudeau-says/ TORONTO (Sputnik) – Ottawa is working with Beijing to facilitate the start of testing of a Chinese vaccine candidate against the novel coronavirus disease in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a briefing. Chinese biotechnology firm, CanSino Biologics Inc. (CanSinoBIO), received Canadian regulatory approval to begin testing in Canada in May but the process has been reportedly delayed by China’s customs authorities. “We’re obviously continuing to work with the Chinese government to ensure that this work can continue in an uninterrupted fashion,” Trudeau said on Thursday. There are also reports that Russia is […]
China has said it would impose sanctions on the US after US President Donald Trump has signed legislation to punish Beijing for “oppressive acts” in Hong Kong and an executive order ending all preferential treatment for the city. “The US law…maliciously denigrates Hong Kong’s national security legislation, threatens to impose sanctions on China, and seriously violates international law and basic rules of international relations. It is gross interference in Hong Kong affairs and China’s internal affairs,” China’s foreign ministry said in a scathing rebuke to Trump’s announcement earlier on Tuesday that he signed the so-called “Hong Kong Autonomy Act” into law. […]
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump signed legislations that suspended the US preferential treatment for Hong Kong and envisaged sanctions over Chinese officials responsible for implementation of Hong Kong national security law. China strongly opposed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act signed earlier by Donald Trump and expressed intentions to respond with sanctions against relevant US officials, according to the statement made by Foreign Ministry of China, cited by state-run media. The statement stressed that any US attempts to “hinder implementation of the security law are doomed to failure”, vowing to “counter foreign meddling in Hong Kong’s affairs”. “The US bill maliciously denigrates the […]
China has accused the US of trying to inflame tensions among powers that have stakes in the South China Sea. The rebuke comes after Washington formally rejected China’s territorial claims in the region on behalf of US allies. In a strongly-worded statement on Tuesday, the Chinese embassy in the US demanded that Washington keep its distance from the disputes between Beijing and other nations claiming sovereignty over contested territorial waters and islets in the South China Sea. “We advise the US side to earnestly honor its commitment of not taking sides on the issue of territorial sovereignty, respect regional countries’ efforts […]
Beijing said on Friday it will impose reciprocal measures in response to US sanctions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing that the US action represented serious interference in China’s affairs and was deeply detrimental to bilateral relations. On Thursday, Washington blacklisted Xinjiang region’s Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo, a member of China’s Politburo, and three other officials. A senior administration representative described Chen as the highest ranking Chinese official ever sanctioned by the United States, Reuters said. China’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Chen […]
The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said on Monday that the United States had deliberately sent its ships to the South China Sea to flex its muscles. China also accused Washington of trying to drive a wedge between the countries in the region. Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the comments in response to a question about two US aircraft carriers conducting operations and exercises in South China Sea. US Navy aircraft carriers are conducting exercises in the contested sea within sight of Chinese naval vessels spotted near the flotilla, the commander of one of the carriers, the USS Nimitz, told Reuters on […]
White House economic adviser Peter Navarro added another accusation to a tide of speculation over China’s “fault” in the COVID-19 pandemic from its beginning to its spread across the world. Trump appointee Peter Navarro on Saturday claimed that the Chinese government sent “hundreds of thousands” of its nationals to travel, thus “seeding and spreading” the coronavirus, implying that the Chinese Communist party “is making us stay locked in our homes and lose our jobs”. “I want everybody right here today, as the day before America’s Independence Day, to understand where this virus started — with the Chinese Communist Party that is […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): On 29 June, India banned 59 Chinese mobile apps in a move widely perceived as a response to the border dispute in the Galvan valley of Ladakh. On 15 June, twenty Indian soldiers were killed in violent clash between patrol parties belonging to both sides. Since then, India is in arms against China on the economic front. China claims that India’s ban on 59 major Chinese apps, including the notorious TikTok app, the UC Browser and Shareit, among others, is a violation of World Trade Organisation (WTO) norms. Banning Chinese apps is one of a number of steps, […]
Amid pressure from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China has committed to resuming negotiations aimed at drawing up a Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (COC). The news comes amid controversial Chinese naval drills near islands also claimed by Hanoi. At the 26th ASEAN-China Senior Officials’ Consultation on Wednesday, Beijing committed to resuming discussions on creating a legally binding COC for the South China Sea, a waterway in which China’s claims overlap with those of five other nations, four of which are part of ASEAN. However, no specific date or place has yet been set, […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, … with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The US has exposed its hidden hand quite openly now with the Hong Kong issue. Any country that opposes US ‘color revolutions’, which many would consider an interference in the internal affairs of another country’, will find itself being punished by US sanctions. But wait, the craziness gets better. One of the proposals to “hurt” China is to block US sales exports, and businesses operating in Hong Kong, despite the US having in nice fat trade surplus with Hong Kong. You really can’t make this stuff up. It […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107964/12/1079641242_0:0:1920:1080_1200x675_80_0_0_001de78ad0d8a09fa111f4bdd7e88ce5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006231079694025-territorial-claims-of-new-delhi-beijing-remain-unchanged-after-long-talks—indian-army-source/ NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – India and China have finished a meeting on the level of corps commanders with not much deviation in their stances on conflicting territorial claims amid a recent escalation on the borderline, a source in the Indian army said on Monday. “Corps Commander level meeting between India and China ended after 11 hours. China is adamant about withdrawal from Galwan Valley and Finger 4 area. India, too, remained firm in its demand that China must go back to its pre-May, 2020 position. The Indian side also demanded that China must stop […]
Unfazed by the lack of evidence, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro went on accusing China of creating Covid-19, possibly even purposefully, as he was grilled about the US readiness for the pandemic. Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper what the president and his team are doing to prepare for a potential second wave of the coronavirus, Navarro quickly launched into a diatribe about China. “China created this pandemic,” he said. “They hid the virus. They created that virus. And they sent over hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens here to spread that around and around the world,” he said. “Whether they […]
Genome sequencing data has revealed that the COVID-19 strain responsible for the most recent outbreak in Beijing traces back to a European one, according to recent studies. “According to preliminary genomic and epidemiological study results, the virus is from Europe, but it is different from the virus currently spreading in Europe,” Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official Zhang Yong is quoted as saying in a Friday article on the website of China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Reuters reported. “It’s older than the virus currently spreading in Europe.” In addition, Wu Zunyou, the CDC’s chief epidemiology expert, told […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): At a time when countries like China and New Zealand are witnessing what seems to be a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, India is tackling its first wave. As of now, 380,532 people have been infected with COVID-19 in the country, of which 12,573 have died. As the number of COVID-19-positive cases recently crossed the 52,000 mark in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, alarm bells have begun to ring. A stringent lockdown has been re-imposed by the local government. In many places, even drones have been deployed to monitor that the lockdown is strictly complied […]
As the world braces for a possible second wave of COVID-19 novel coronavirus infections, a new report out of Beijing, China, highlights that the city’s wholesale food market is heavily contaminated with traces of the virus. Preliminary results of an epidemiological investigation into the Xinfadi wholesale food center – a massive facility that contains warehouses and trading halls – revealed that those frequenting the seafood section are more likely to become infected with the novel coronavirus, according to Reuters. “We have analyzed the nature of infected persons’ activities. We found that people who bought seafood contracted [the novel coronavirus] more often […]
China’s top diplomat has shot back after the US and its allies in the G7 called on Beijing to abandon a hot-button national security law slated for Hong Kong, telling his American counterpart to respect Chinese sovereignty. “China resolutely opposes the words and deeds of the US side interfering in Hong Kong affairs and resolutely opposes the statement made by the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven on Hong Kong-related issues,” Yang Jiechi, the director of Beijing’s foreign affairs, said on Wednesday after meeting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for talks in Hawaii. Also on rt.com You better ‘reconsider’: […]
Chinese airlines have suspended half of all inbound and almost 70 percent of all outbound Beijing flights as part of emergency measures designed to contain a spike in coronavirus infections that was discovered days ago. At least 1,255 scheduled flights were canceled as of Wednesday morning, local media reported, just as Chinese authorities introduced a travel ban for residents dwelling in medium- and high-risk areas of Beijing. The cancelations affect flights arriving at, or departing from, Beijing Daxing International Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport. Most of those flights were bound for domestic locations like Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and others. China’s […]
China locks down TEN more Beijing neighborhoods over new Covid-19 outbreak at wholesale market …from Russia Today, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: China will now “show its stuff” to the rest of the world and set the benchmark on how to deal with new outbreaks of Covid with quick lockdowns to prevent the clusters from growing. By just the second day it had tested over 40,000 citizens, that included all f the market employees. Expect to see contact tracing to be just as quick was will be the testing of those people. Could a US major city move this fast? Hardly, especially […]
Lockdown Measures Return To Beijing As Testing Reveals Cluster At Major Food Market By Emily Feng and Amy Cheng/npr.org Updated 1:15 a.m. Monday China’s capital of Beijing has discovered 79 symptomatic new cases of the coronavirus since Thursday, leading city authorities to resurrect lockdown measures and elevating fears of a second wave of infections. All the new cases were linked to the sprawling Xinfadi wholesale food market in the south of Beijing, which supplies the city and its environs with 1,500 tons of seafood, 18,000 tons of vegetables and 20,000 tons of fruit every day, according to the market’s website. The first new […]
In response to the new coronavirus outbreak connected to Xinfadi wholesale market in Beijing, the city has introduced strict quarantine measures in ten neighborhoods in Haidian District. For the second day in a row, after months of almost no new Covid-19 cases, China has reported dozens of new locally-transmitted infections – including 36 in Beijing, where a new cluster was discovered several days ago. The fresh outbreak in the capital was linked to a large food market, Xinfadi, which was promptly shut down on Saturday, along with several other markets in the area, as well a schools and kindergartens. Also on rt.com […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107940/94/1079409431_0:196:3045:1908_1200x675_80_0_0_cbf2bf4b0831da83d5ba264c84f66104.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006121079597813-beijing-authorities-reintroduce-ban-on-sporting-events-due-to-new-covid-19-cases-in-city/ BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing sports authorities said on Friday that all sporting events would be temporarily suspended again as new COVID-19 cases were detected in the Chinese capital. At the end of May, China’s General Administration of Sport allowed to partially resume holding sports tournaments suspended over the pandemic. “Due to the changes in the epidemiological situation and the need to carry out work to prevent the epidemic, reduce movement- and crowds-related risks, ensure the health and safety of citizens, all kinds of sports competitions are temporarily suspended citywide starting Saturday”, the Beijing sporting […]
Beijing on Thursday confirmed a new COVID-19 case in the country’s capital for the first time in nearly two months, according to Chinese officials. The patient is a 52-year-old man who first checked into a clinic on Wednesday with a fever, Reuters reported, citing the state-owned newspaper People’s Daily. The patient, identified only as Mr. Tang, confirmed that he had neither left Beijing nor been in contact with anyone who had been traveling overseas in the last couple of weeks. Tang, who hails from Beijing’s Xicheng District, has been admitted to a hospital for treatment and is currently under medical observation. […]
BEIJING (Sputnik) – The United States has unilaterally withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and has no right to demand that the United Nations Security Council extend the arms embargo on the Islamic republic, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said in a letter to the UN secretary-general. “Wang Yi: All provisions of #UNSCR2231, including arms-related arrangements, should be earnestly implemented[;] US is no longer #JCPOA participant, and has no right to demand #UNSC invoke a snap-back[;] The only way to move forward is to effectively safeguard & implement JCPOA”, China’s Permanent Mission to the UN wrote on Twitter, quoting Wang’s […]
The EU, unlike the US, earlier stopped short of promising to take any action against Beijing over its decision to introduce a new piece of legislation in Hong Kong. The law would ban activities directed at dividing China. EU Foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell has stated that the EU is not going to launch a “cold war” with China, noting that Beijing has been notified about Brussels’ position. “I told [Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi]: ‘Don’t worry, Europe is not going to embark on any kind of Cold War with China'”, Borrell said. Borrell’s statement comes as Brussels and Beijing are […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that the West could not ignore the rise of China. Beijing was coming closer to the West in various ways – in the Arctic, in cyberspace and in critical infrastructure, including telecommunications, he told BBC radio. The head of the Western military alliance also said it was important that Britain had a review of the role of Huawei in its 5G network to ensure its security. “I trust that the UK government will design their networks in ways that protect the networks and make sure that the UK has secure 5G networks,” Stoltenberg told […]
COLOGNE, Germany — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wants the alliance to take on a greater political role in world affairs and help nations in the Asia-Pacific region contend with China’s rise. “Military strength is only part of the answer,” Stoltenberg said Monday in a speech during an online event organized by the Atlantic Council and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “We also need to use NATO more politically.” He said alliance member should adopt a more global approach to security issues, unlike the Europe- and North America-centric tack that has often shaped the alliance’s agenda. “This is […]
De-globalizing the world economy and blaming China for the current viral outbreak is the opposite of what needs to be done to ensure humanity is prepared for future pandemics, Beijing has argued in a white paper on Covid-19. “Covid-19 is changing the form but not the general trend of economic globalization. Decoupling, erecting walls and deglobalization may divide the world, but will not do any good to those who themselves are engaged in these acts,” China warned in the 65-page document detailing its response to the coronavirus, which was published on Sunday. The white paper was issued by the State Council […]
MELBOURNE, Australia — China could stand to lose almost all of its ballistic and cruise missiles if it were to sign a new strategic arms control treaty, according to a new regional security assessment. The analysis, titled “The End of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty: Implications for Asia,” is one of the chapters of the annual Asia-Pacific regional security assessment published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank. IISS’ report was released June 5 and covered regional security topics such as Sino-U.S. relations, North Korea and Japanese policy. China could lose 95 percent of its ballistic and cruise […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107929/79/1079297921_0:0:2144:1207_1200x675_80_0_0_2380cd8a086c3790d97c7f7a9b9533d5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006011079492027-taiwan-eyeing-us-made-anti-ship-missiles-for-coastal-defense-despite-beijings-disapproval-/ As tensions between Washington and Beijing persist, Taipei is maintaining its autonomy and has expressed interest in securing a deal for new Harpoon anti-ship missiles from US-based defense contractor Boeing. The National Defense Ministry of the Republic of China revealed on May 28 that the democratically-ruled island intends to proceed in procuring Harpoon missiles from the United States, despite recent warnings from China and the already contentious relations between Washington and Beijing. Deputy Defense Minister Chang Che Ping confirmed the future US-Taiwan arms deal while answering questions in parliament on Thursday, according to Reuters. […]
Beijing Sees Trump’s Hand And Won’t Fold By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. May 31, 2020 Beijing Sees Trump’s Hand And Won’t Fold2020-05-312020-05-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/china-us-xi-trump–e1590958151920.jpg200px200px Above photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in a file image. Image: Youtube. With Sinophobic hysteria reaching new heights in US, China’s counter play is a massive new economic plan. Stranger things have happened. Everyone was expecting US President Donald Trump to go nuclear by de facto sanctioning China to death over Hong Kong. In an environment where Twitter and the President of the United States are now engaged in open warfare, the rule is that […]
Asia & Pacific 07:33 GMT 29.05.2020(updated 07:41 GMT 29.05.2020) Get short URL Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202005291079450608-beijing-urges-foreign-nations-to-cease-attempts-at-meddling-in-hong-kong-affairs/ The day before, China’s parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution to draft a law on national security in Hong Kong that would outlaw secessionism in the territory and hefty fines or jail terms for those ridiculing China’s anthem among other things. The Chinese Foreign Ministry called on foreign nations on Friday to cease attempts at meddling in Hong Kong affairs. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is using self-described human rights legislation to put pressure on the Hong Kong government and threaten China’s sovereignty, Beijing has claimed. Pompeo is “blackmailing” the semi-autonomous city with the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Office of the Commissioner to Hong Kong said on Thursday. He added that China was not intimidated by Washington’s political maneuvering and that Beijing would protect its national interests from all foreign threats. Signed into law in November 2019, the act requires the State Department to audit Hong Kong’s level of “autonomy” […]
US President Donald Trump has fired off another missive targeting China, arguing the country could have “easily” stopped the Covid-19 pandemic and is now waging an information war to escape responsibility. Trump lashed out at Beijing in a flurry of messages on Twitter, apparently in response to the recent statement by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who accused the US leader of “trying to mislead the public, smear China’s efforts and shift the blame of US incompetence” in handling the Covid-19 outbreak on China. Also on rt.com ‘No time to waste’: Trump gives WHO 30 days to make ‘major improvements’ […]
BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing has issued an official protest to Tokyo over an incident involving Chinese patrol ships and a Japanese fishing vessel near the disputed Diaoyudao Islands, known in Japan as Senkaku Islands, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said at a briefing on Monday. “According to our data, the Chinese coastal patrol ships carried out routine patrols near the Diaoyudao Islands when they discovered the illegal operation of a Japanese ship. Chinese ships tracked the Japanese vessel in accordance with the law and urged it to leave the waters. China made a representation to Japan through diplomatic channels, […]