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America and China do not need to fight each other to win.
China has said that it will resume issuing ordinary visas and passports after nearly three years. China’s National Health Commission said that it will resume its daily COVID-19 report starting Wednesday in response to a sharp decline in PCR testing since the government eased anti-virus measures after daily cases hit record highs.
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China and the US are still on a collision course, despite the cooling of the heat.
The US and China will hold a summit in Beijing in January following the G20 summit, US State Secretary Antony Blinken said. The meeting will take place during Xi Jinping’s stay at the G20 summit in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. This will be the first time a US President has held a summit…
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Some Chinese students are going to return to their home country.
China has said that the fight against COVID-19 is “winnable” and the country’s top priorities now should be booster shots, particularly for the elderly and others most at risk. China’s National Health Commission said the daily report about COVID-19 was scaled down by the commission after the government stopped anti-viruses measures after record highs.
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China’s surge in cases has an impact on factories and the consumer market.
China’s exports and imports contracted for the first time since May 2020 in October amid the coronavirus pandemic, as surging inflation and rising interest rates hit global demand. The country’s exports fell 10.9% from a year earlier, while imports fell 10.4%. China’s manufacturing sector has been hit by new COVID-19 curbs at home, which have…
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There’s a reason vaccine hesitancy persists in China.
Amid rising cases of coronavirus in China, the country’s Health Commission reported that 1,476 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported across the country on Thursday. The total number of COVID-19 cases across China has risen to 3,07,713. China’s National Health Commission scaled down its daily COVID-19 report from daily to one on Wednesday in response…
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Global science should not be used as a bargaining chip.
Researchers have said that the number of co-authored papers between researchers from the US and China has fallen for the first time in 20 years. They further said that it’s in no one’s interest if China’s researchers become more isolated from their international counterparts. “It’s in no one’s interests if China’s researchers become more isolated…
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It doesn’t mean what it used to mean in China.
China’s COVID-19 expert Zhong Jianhua has said that the disease was spreading rapidly in the country. Zhong said that the government’s top priority now should be booster shots, particularly for the elderly and others most at risk, especially with China’s Lunar New Year coming up next month. Zhong had earlier said that the coronavirus was…
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The world felt like it changed overnight, says the zero- Covid.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a televised address that China will continue to keep its coronavirus policy “dynamic”. “The essence of persisting with dynamic zero- COVID-19 is putting people first and prioritizing life,” an editorial in the People’s Daily, the ruling party’s mouthpiece said. Earlier, China had said that it would end its zero-…
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It is hard for women in China’s Communist Party.
China’s President Xi Jinping on Friday said, “A new era of national socialism is set to be born.” Xi made the statement at the opening ceremony of National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature. China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), will officially open its second session today. The first session will end on November…
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In New York and Hong Kong, the Chinese stocks have fallen to multi-year lows.
The Chinese economy has seen its biggest contraction since May last year as the COVID-19 pandemic hit consumer spending. Investment in the property sector, which accounts for over 30% of China’s GDP, plunged 9.8% in the first 11 months of the year. It was the worst contraction in retail spending since May, when widespread lockdowns,…
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There was a rare protest against China’s president days before the party congress.
China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday said that the country’s economy is expected to grow at over 10% in 2020, the fastest rate since 2011. He added, “China is one of the world’s largest economies and we do not have any reason to be worried.” The growth is due to “the hard work and sacrifice…
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Zero- Covid is speeding up China’s state of vigilance.
In an apparent bid to lower public expectation about any policy changes ahead of the party Congress, China’s mouthpiece People’s Daily has said that the “essence of persisting with dynamic zero-Covid is putting people first and prioritising life”. China has reduced the amount of time travellers entering the country must spend in quarantine and removed…
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There are 3 reasons why China may become more assertive.
The US and China are “more and more focused on no longer just deterring independence”, while China views its actions as a response to the US’ actions, a senior Chinese official has said. “There are people within…government who do not believe that China’s policies toward the US are the best,” the official added. The official…
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The ‘zero COVID’ policy of China has been changed to less restrictions.
A Chinese woman, Yanzhong Huang, broke down in tears as she yelled at workers at a hospital over its COVID-19 testing requirement. In the video, Huang can be heard yelling, “Let’s do this, we’ve got to do this.” She added, “It’s a clear sign that China is moving away from zero COVID.” China has reported…
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The obstacles need to be conquered for invention to happen.
China is the only Asian country that is ranked low in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index (GII) for 2020. China is behind other nations in patents, trademarks and the size of its domestic market. The country is also not ranked high for GII metrics related to international relations such as student numbers…
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Beijing is refusing to change course even as Anger at the policy is rising.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been named the General Secretary of China’s Communist Party for the next five years at a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body scheduled to be held on Wednesday. Xi has been in this role for the past five years. He has been the Chairman of the Central Committee of…
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Thank You, President XI Jinping.
China and the United States are unlikely to have a disagreement over Taiwan in the coming years, Chris Li from the Asia-Pacific Initiative at Harvard University said. China’s strategy toward Taiwan hasn’t fundamentally changed, he added. However, there’s a perception that Beijing is more and more focused on no longer just deterring independence, Li further…
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Thank you, President Jinping.
Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was escorted out of a Communist Party meeting during a five-yearly leadership reshuffle. “A high-profile purge of Hu…shows the presence of dissent, and the notion that Xi is at least ‘challengeable’,” Professor Joel Wuthnow, a senior research fellow at US National Defence University, said. Four of the top six officers…