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Canada’s parliament has unanimously voted in favor of accepting up to 10,000 exiled Uyghurs with Chinese citizenship. The MPs passed a motion to this effect by Sameer Zuberi, an MP of Uyghur origin, by 322 votes to 0. The vote is not legally binding for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, but the unanimous support of […] continue reading →

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi exchanged views with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang over the phone on Thursday. According to the Chinese version, Qin urged the Japanese government not to allow itself to be misled by “right-wing forces” into starting a conflict over the Senkaku Islands. China claims the islets under the name Diaoyu. Earlier […] continue reading →

The Spanish government has given the green light for the largest-ever ever purchase of photovoltaic plants by the Chinese state-owned company China Three Gorges (CTG). CTG has been given permission to purchase plants with a capacity of 619 megawatts from Nexwell Power, local media reported on Thursday. The transaction is the largest of its kind […] continue reading →

Scientists at the Northwestern University of Agricultural and Forestry Science and Technology 西北农林科技大学 have successfully cloned cows that yield particularly high quantities of milk. The calves are growing up in the Ningxia Autonomous Region. According to the Global Times, this is the first successful cloning of highly productive cows in China. The animals are visually […] continue reading →

The US has acquired access to four more military bases in the Philippines. Washington and Manila made the announcement on Thursday during a visit by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin to the Philippines. It expands the 2014 Defence Enhancement Agreement (EDCA), which already allows US forces to operate five Philippine military bases on which troops […] continue reading →

Chinese artificial intelligence companies have received large-scale investment from the US, despite some of them being blacklisted in the US. According to research by Georgetown University’s Centre for Security Studies (CSET), major US investors and chipmakers such as Intel and Qualcomm made one-fifth of their investments in Chinese AI companies between 2015 and 2021. 167 […] continue reading →

Production is set to rise at Tesla’s Shanghai plant due to fueled demand, according to internal plans. The world’s largest electric carmaker plans to produce an average of nearly 20,000 vehicles per week at its main factory in February and March, according to a planning memo obtained by Reuters news agency. With that level of […] continue reading →

The CEO of US aircraft manufacturer Boeing, Dave Calhoun, is optimistic about new orders from China. Demand from the People’s Republic is picking up strongly after the end of Covid restrictions, Calhoun told Bloomberg TV. “They need airplanes. First and foremost, we’ve got to get the airplanes they already own back in the air.” Boeing […] continue reading →

The head of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, Vasant Narasimhan, sees major growth opportunities in China despite its shrinking population. “If you look at the unmet need in China for the treatment of many chronic diseases, it is significant,” Narasimhan said. The population is aging, the government is willing to speed up drug approvals, and thanks […] continue reading →

The leadership in Beijing sticks to its criticism of the Atlantic defense alliance. NATO “fabricates a Chinese threat,” Foreign Office spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Wednesday in Beijing on the occasion of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s visit to Japan and South Korea. The spokeswoman accused NATO of strengthening its ties with Asia-Pacific countries and […] continue reading →

China faces dramatic heat records and massive rainfall if the world misses the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement. With global warming of two degrees, seven percent of 369 cities studied would reach a new state of extreme heat, according to new research, the Carbon Brief trade service reported Wednesday. Sixty-five percent of cities would […] continue reading →

The US government may consider cutting Huawei completely off from access to US technology, according to media reports. Some officials in the Biden administration are calling for a ban on all Huawei sales, according to Bloomberg. US chip companies such as Intel and Qualcomm have reportedly been signaled that existing exemptions to supply some products […] continue reading →

Beijing sharply criticized the Czech Republic’s president-elect Petr Pavel over his phone call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. Pavel had disregarded “China’s red line,” Mao Ning of China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The Czech Republic must now take steps to “prevent irreparable damage to relations between China and the Czech Republic,” she said. Pavel […] continue reading →

The company Origin Quantum Computing Technology from Anhui has shipped a fully self-developed quantum computer to a client. This was reported by Chinese state media on Monday. This makes China the third country capable of doing so, after Canada and the US. As the South China Morning Post writes, the “Wuyuan Quantum Computer” was already […] continue reading →

One day after foreign policy czar Wang Yi announced plans to visit Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry is said to have also announced the visit of President Xi Jinping. This was reported by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post on Tuesday and Russian media, according to AFP. Reuters also reported a statement from the Russian […] continue reading →

China’s chief diplomat Wang Yi will travel to Moscow. This was reported by the Russian daily Vedomosti. The former foreign minister could also meet with President Vladimir Putin. The report left the exact date of the trip open. Since stepping down from his government post, Wang has been coordinating Chinese foreign policy at the party […] continue reading →

A political change of course in Prague Castle: Czech Republic’s newly elected President Petr Pavel spoke on the phone with Ukraine and Taiwan shortly after his election victory, sending a clear signal to Russia and China. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-Wen congratulated Pavel during the conversation on Monday. He and Tsai reiterated that the Czech Republic […] continue reading →

According to China’s health authorities, virus samples have not yet revealed the existence of any unknown Covid mutations, despite a high number of cases. Covid strains BA.5.2 and BF.7 continue to dominate the infection activity in the country. Before the current wave, there were fears that high infection numbers would spawn a new variant. However, […] continue reading →