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World Food Bills Set to Keep Rising on China’s Crop-Buying Binge
China’s ravenous appetite for crops is further tightening global grain supplies and setting the stage for a prolonged rally in food costs.
Biden to pursue arms control, seeks to engage China: U.S. envoy
The Biden administration views the New Start Treaty clinched with Russia this week as the beginning of engagement on strategic issues and urges China to join the effort to reduce nuclear arms stockpiles, a U.S. envoy said on Thursday.
Australia Asks for UN Probe Into New China Uighur Abuse Claims
Australia has called for a United Nations investigation into allegations of human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing’s treatment of minority Muslim Uighurs has drawn sustained international criticism.
China administered 31.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for key groups as of February 3
China has administered 31.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for key groups of people as of Feb. 3, Mi Feng, spokesman for the National Health Commission, said at a media briefing on Thursday.
WHO team probing COVID-19 visits Wuhan lab, meets 'Bat Woman'
A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China's central city of Wuhan and met with a prominent virologist there in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
China says world should contribute to Myanmar stability
China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday ahead of a U.N. Security Council meeting that all actions by the international community should contribute to Myanmar's political and social stability to prevent increasing tensions.
China health authority and WHO discuss cooperation for coronavirus origin investigation
China's National Health Commission head Ma Xiaowei discussed cooperation on coronavirus origin tracing with the World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom in a phone call on Wednesday.
China’s Xi Warns Against Confrontation in Veiled Message to Biden
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged multilateral coordination to tackle global challenges such as the pandemic while issuing a veiled warning against the new Biden administration’s preparations to rally allies to challenge Beijing.
Japan weighs in on South China Sea dispute, adding to pressure on Beijing
Permanent mission to United Nations sends diplomatic note saying China’s territorial baselines on some islands and reefs fail to satisfy conditions in UN convention.
China's COVID outbreak worst since March 2020
China is battling the worst outbreak of COVID-19 since March 2020, with one province posting a record daily rise in cases, as an independent panel reviewing the global pandemic said China could have done more to curb the initial outbreak.
Independent pandemic review panel critical of China, WHO delays
An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial COVID-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for not declaring an international emergency until Jan...
Two members of WHO delegation to Wuhan held back over health screening
Two members of a World Health Organization-led team that arrived on Thursday in China's Wuhan city to investigate the origins of COVID-19 remained behind in Singapore after testing positive for coronavirus antibodies, the global body said.
China in darkest period for human rights since Tiananmen, says rights group
Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn Beijing
UK to use fines to target forced labor in China's Xinjiang
LONDON (AP) — British companies will face fines unless they meet new government requirements showing their supply chains are free from forced labor, the U.K.'s foreign secretary said Tuesday as he...
Angola gets breathing space from Chinese creditors, says finance minister
Angola has secured three years of payment relief from Chinese creditors and expects to get more than $700 million in its next tranche of International Monetary Fund financing in the coming days, its finance minister said on Monday.
WHO's Tedros welcomes Chinese green light for virus origins probe
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday welcomed news that China had authorised a team of international experts probing the origins of the new coronavirus to come to the country.
Hong Kong government hits back at Western nations critical of mass arrests
Safeguarding national security through legislation is in line with international practice, spokesman says.
UN rights office decries jail term for citizen-journalist in China's Wuhan
The United Nations human rights office voiced concern on Monday at the four-year prison term imposed by a Chinese court on citizen journalist Zhang Zhan who reported from Wuhan early in the pandemic and reiterated its call for her release.
China says fighter aircraft did not enter South Korea's air space
China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Chinese and Russian warplanes did not enter South Korean airspace, after Seoul said they scrambled fighter jets in response to an intrusion into its air defence identification zone.
'Good riddance,' China says as Germany leaves U.N. Security Council
Germany's U.N. envoy, during his last scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting, appealed to China to free two detained Canadians for Christmas, prompting China's deputy U.N. envoy to respond: "Out of the bottom of my heart: Good riddance."