Category: China
Brazil’s vice president to visit China, top trading partner, next month
Brazil’s vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Wednesday he will travel to China on May 16, staying for 10 days with stops in Beijing and Shanghai. Mourao, a former [...]
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Huawei fights back against claim in research paper that it is government funded and controlled
Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecoms equipment vendor, defended its independence on Thursday after a recent research paper questioned the company’s [...]
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UN chief says Belt and Road Initiative ‘very important opportunity’
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that the Belt and Road Initiative is a “very important opportunity” to the world. With such a huge volume of [...]
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China says French ship entered Chinese waters illegally
China’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that China lodged stern representations with France after a French warship illegally entered its waters while passing through [...]
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Chinese media call for crackdown on motorists using mobile phones after latest fatal crash
The death of a woman in a high-speed car accident who is believed to have been sending messages on her phone at the time of the crash has sparked calls in the Chinese media [...]
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Falungong: The movement that rattled Beijing
The Falungong triggered a relentless Chinese government crackdown against the movement when thousands of its members protested around Communist Party headquarters in Beijing [...]
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Trump praises China for executing drug dealers: ‘I appreciate that very much’
Donald Trump has praised China for its policy of executing drug dealers. In a speech at the Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta on Wednesday, the president turned to [...]
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2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to be held in Beijing
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s carefully choreographed visit to Russia suffered a minor glitch on Wednesday as his armoured train missed the red carpet laid out for [...]
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China seeks to allay fears over Belt and Road debt risks
China aims to make the Belt and Road initiative sustainable and prevent debt risks, its finance minister said on Thursday, seeking to allay criticism that the infrastructure [...]
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Peru to sign MoU to join China’s Belt and Road club in coming days: Chinese ambassador
Peru will sign a memorandum of understanding to join China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative in coming days, China’s ambassador said on Wednesday, despite [...]
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Energias de Portugal shareholders block takeover bid by China Three Gorges
Shareholders in Portugal’s biggest company, Energias de Portugal, on Wednesday blocked a nine billion-euro ($10 billion) takeover bid by the state-owned China Three [...]
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United States under Donald Trump is veering away from China’s belt and road
When the curtain raises on the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Thursday, 40 foreign leaders and thousands of delegates from more than 100 countries will be there to [...]
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China defends Belt and Road but vows to battle debt
China launched on Thursday a staunch defence of its Belt and Road global infrastructure project as it opened a summit with a pledge to ease concerns about debt linked to its [...]
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Chinese court names and shames debtors in warm-up to Avengers movie
Audiences who gathered to watch the midnight premiere of Marvel Comics’ Avengers: Endgame at Xingxin Time Movie World in Lishui, Zhejiang province, on Tuesday were also [...]
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Belt and Road Forum: China tipped to counter critics with showcase projects
China is expected to showcase projects that it thinks can set the standard for its flagship “Belt and Road Initiative” and crack down on exploitation of the name [...]
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