Tag: China
U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok
Reuters
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, in the latest s
U.S. four-star general warns of war with China in 2025
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A four-star U.S. Air Force general said in a memo that his gut told him the United States would fight China in the next two years, comments that Pentagon officials said were not consistent with American military assessments."I hope I am wro
U.S. House panel to vote next month on possible TikTok ban
Reuters
The House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of China's popular social media app TikTok in the United States, the committee confirmed on Friday.
Morocco to ban arrivals from China over COVID surge
Reuters
Morocco will impose a ban on people arriving from China, whatever their nationality, from Jan. 3 to avert any new wave of coronavirus infections, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.
COVID is now killing 9,000 people per day in China- UK data firm says
Roving Correspondent
Around 9,000 people in China are probably dying each day from COVID-19, UK-based health data firm Airfinity said on Thursday, nearly doubling its estimate from a week ago, as infections ripped across the world's most populous nation.COVID i
U.S. to impose mandatory COVID-19 tests for travellers from China as deaths soar
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The United States will impose mandatory COVID-19 tests on travellers from China, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday, joining India, Italy, Japan and Taiwan in taking new measures after Beijing's decision to lift stringent zero-COVID policies.
China's COVID cases overwhelm hospitals
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In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this.Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly and many are very un
Uncertainty over TikTok's future as it faces ban in U.S
Reuters
A Republican Senator in the U.S has announced bipartisan legislation to ban China's popular social media app TikTok. The plan by Marco Rubio ratchets up pressure on TikTok owner ByteD
South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone
Alex Waithaka
South Korea's military said it scrambled fighter jets as two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defence zone on Wednesday.The two Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly entered and left the Korea Air Defence Identification
China's President Xi Jinping clinches third term, packs leadership with loyalists
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China's Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third leadership term on Sunday and introduced a new top governing body stacked with loyalists, cementing his place as the country's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.Shanghai Communist Par
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China suspends cooperation with U.S after Pelosi's Taiwan trip
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China's announced Friday it was suspending cooperation with U.S on the prevention of cross-border crime and drug trafficking,
Furious China fires missiles near Taiwan after Pelosi visit
Reuters
Pelosi, the highest-level U.S. visitor to Taiwan in 25 years, praised its democracy and pledged American solidarity during her brief stopover. Chinese anger could not stop world leaders from travelling there, she said.
Kenya makes history with Avocado shipment to China
Ephantus Maara
Kenya has exported its first consignment of avocados to China.
The rise of donkey rustlers in South Africa as demand in China skyrockets
Wangari Keit
Domesticated for about 6000 years, the donkey has served the human race from acting as a form of transport to farming to now being a demanded export by the Chinese for traditional medicine as they claim.Among countries that has an
Footage of women's beating at a restaurant sparks outrage in China
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Surveillance footage of men assaulting women at a restaurant in the northeastern city of Tangshan has unleashed a flood of outrage on Chinese social media, prompting state media calls for punishment and renewing a debate over the treatment of w
China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu; a child was in contact with chickens, crows
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China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the c
China continues to battle its worst COVID-19 outbreak since Wuhan
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China reported 1,335 confirmed coronavirus cases for March 25, the country's national health authority said on Saturday, compared with 1,366 a day earlier.Of the new cases, 1,280 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commi
Boeing 737 plane crashes with 132 people onboard
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A China Eastern Airlines aircraft with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in south China on Monday while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, Chi