The Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom on Saturday urged some of the politicians in the UK to stop “playing with fire” on the Taiwan question and refrain from engaging in anti-China manipulation or interfering in China’s internal affairs. The Grand Committee
A China Eastern Airlines plane carrying 132 people on board has crashed in Guangxi province, Chinese aviation officials have confirmed. The number of casualties and reason for the crash are not yet known. The crash of the Boeing 737 jet, in a mountainous region, led to a fire in the woods, state media is reporting.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for “maximum restraint” in Ukraine and said China is “pained to see the flames of war reignited in Europe,” state media reported, in his strongest statement to date on the conflict. Xi, speaking at a virtual meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said
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China is “open” to international cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus but any investigation must be “free of political interference”, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said Sunday. He blasted what he called efforts by US politicians to “fabricate rumours” about the pathogen’s origins and “stigmatise China”. The United States and Australia have called in
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Shanghai – The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters on Sunday. The novel coronavirus is believed to have originated in a wet market in Wuhan and first emerged in December before spreading quickly worldwide. Some 2.83 million people
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The first patients arrived on Monday at a 1,000-bed hospital built in as part of China’s intensive efforts to fight a new virus. Huoshenshan Hospital and a second facility with 1,500 beds that’s due to open this week were built by construction crews who are working around the clock in Wuhan, the city in central
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Sixty-two countries have implemented some form of immigration control on Chinese citizens. Six countries have tightened visa rules for Chinese citizens, four have restricted Chinese citizens’ entry into their countries, and five have launched restrictive measures on anyone from Hubei or with recent travel history to the province, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. Fourty-seven countries
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The World Health Organization on Thursday declared that the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak was a global health emergency, acknowledging that the disease now represents a risk beyond China, where it emerged last month. The concern is that it could spread to countries with weaker health systems. The death toll now stands at 170 people in China.
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Countries began isolating hundreds of citizens evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to stop the spread of an epidemic that has killed 170 people as worry about the impact on the world’s second-biggest economy rattled markets. Asian stocks and currencies fell as the death toll rose and more cases were reported with
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The Coronavirus death toll now stands at 170 and there are 7,711 confirmed cases within China. Infections have also spread to at least 16 other countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) will meet on Thursday to discuss whether the virus constitutes a global health emergency. “In the last few days the progress of the virus,
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