US President Joe Biden met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, this week for the first time in a year, a meeting aimed at preventing tensions between the world’s two largest economies from spiraling into conflict, Agence France-Presse reported. During the meeting at the Filoli estate...
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Chinese police rescued more than 1,000 cats from being slaughtered and sold as pork or mutton, an incident that sparked concern across the country over food safety and animal rights, the BBC reported. State-affiliated media said this month that police conducted the rescue operation following a...
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China’s rubber-stamp parliament unveiled a new bill this month that would ban clothing considered offensive to the Chinese people, a move critics say underscores the government’s increasing restrictions on personal freedom and expression, the Washington Post reported. The National People’s Congress published a draft that would...
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China ordered government workers and state-owned companies not to use iPhones and other Apple products for work, a ban that comes amid ongoing geopolitical and trade tensions with the United States, the Guardian reported. A number of state agencies last week instructed their employees not to...
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Chinese authorities arrested two people this week accused of severely damaging a section of China’s Great Wall in order to create a shortcut for work near the world heritage site, NBC News reported. Police said the suspects, a 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, had widened...
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For the past 25 years, pundits in the West have been issuing dire warnings about China’s economy surpassing that of the United States, a shift that they feared would herald a new China-led global geopolitical system. Today, however, China’s economy – the second largest in the...
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China’s land and maritime neighbors protested against a newly published map displaying new and expanded Chinese borders, a move that could exacerbate already simmering regional tensions over Beijing’s territorial claims, Nikkei Asia reported. Last week, China’s Ministry of Natural Resource published a 2023 edition of the...
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China launched military drills around Taiwan over the weekend, shortly after the island’s vice president, William Lai, made two stopovers in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported. Last week, Lai visited Paraguay to reinforce relations with the South American nation – one of Taiwan’s...
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China will restrict the export of two important metals used to manufacture semiconductors, a move that could further escalate the global trade war over access to microchips, CNBC reported. The Chinese commerce ministry announced that the new regulations will require exporters to seek a license to...
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American diplomats claimed that the autocratic president of China, Xi Jinping, had no clue that one of his spy balloons had been shot down over the US in February. As CNN noted, Xi’s potential ignorance of a major international story illustrated a “significant lack of...
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One of China’s biggest airlines came under scrutiny this month after the company issued a new policy imposing strict weight requirements on female flight attendants, NBC News reported. Hainan Airlines unveiled a series of guidelines for its cabin crew, saying that female flight attendants would immediately...
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China is operating a spy station in Cuba, according to the US Biden administration, a revelation that comes days after reports emerged that Beijing was paying Havana to set up a facility just 100 miles off Florida, the Washington Post reported. The eavesdropping facility in Cuba...
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Protesters and police clashed in the town of Nagu in southwestern China this week after authorities attempted to partially dismantle a 14th-century mosque in the Muslim-majority municipality, the Guardian reported. Over the weekend, Nagu officials were set to dismantle parts of the Najiaying mosque after a...
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American and Chinese officials held more than eight hours of “candid” and “constructive” talks in Vienna two weeks ago. Among the breakthroughs, the Associated Press reported, was when White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Wang Yi that the...
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Chinese police arrested a man this week accused of using ChatGPT to generate a fake news article posted across social media, the first time authorities have enforced a recently passed law related to artificial intelligence, CNBC reported. Officials alleged that the man fabricated a news story...
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Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to reopen their diplomatic missions and boost economic cooperation during a meeting in the Chinese capital on Thursday, a significant step forward for the two regional rivals seven years after they broke off relations, the Associated Press reported. Both sides said...
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It’s hard to say which is more remarkable about the recent peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran – the reconciliation between Sunni and Shiite Muslim powers who have been at odds over the future of the Middle East since at least the late 1980s,...
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Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations following Chinese-led negotiations, a landmark development that many analysts see as a de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East and Beijing’s increasing international role, CNBC reported. The two regional rivals made the announcement Friday following four days...
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China rejected new allegations about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic after the US Department of Energy concluded this week that Covid-19 most likely came from a lab leak, The Hill reported Monday. Over the weekend, a new report showed that the Energy Department and the...
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Top diplomats from China and the US met Saturday for the first time since Washington shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast, with China failing to offer an apology and instead asking the US to mend the damage to the relationship,...
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