The fact that international experts have not yet been admitted to China to investigate the coronavirus’s origins is “not just a visa issue”. So said a spokeswoman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who said there is still talk about “the specific date and the specific arrangements surrounding […]
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is outraged by a “disgusting, scandalous and heinous” tweet from a leading Chinese government spokesman and is demanding an apology from Beijing. Australian prosecutors are currently investigating 19 of the country’s military in connection with alleged war crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan […]
The 27 heads of government and EU heads of state are coming to Berlin next month for a special summit on China. The meeting has been delayed because the 27 at their two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday barely got round to discussing relations with China, despite […]
The popular video app TikTok is threatening to go to American court over Donald Trump’s presidential decree, the company writes in a blog post on the website. Trump has prohibited transactions with the Chinese parent company ByteDance. TikTok says to be “shocked”. “The decree was issued without any fair […]
The Chinese authorities have released a man who was wrongfully detained for nearly 27 years for the murder of two boys. A court in Jiangxi Province ruled this week that there was insufficient evidence against Zhang Yuhuan, who says police tortured him to extract a confession. The time Zhang […]
China cites US allegations that the country is stealing intellectual property in the US, in a Foreign Affairs statement libel. The Washington government has ordered the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston. Beijing has reacted furiously. According to The South China Morning Post, it would now consider ordering […]
In the Chinese capital Beijing, a corona infection has been diagnosed for the first time in almost two months. According to Chinese media, this is a 52-year-old man who developed a fever and sought medical attention. It is still unclear how the man contracted the virus. He wouldn’t have […]
China has warned the United States not to interfere with the situation in Hong Kong. That warning follows a US threat of sanctions if Beijing pushes through the so-called security law in Hong Kong. According to critics, that security law is intended to put an end to the autonomous […]
The thirteenth National People’s Congress in China kicked off on Friday in a packed hall with thousands of policymakers. Prime Minister Lie Keqiang said during the opening speech that China is going to introduce laws to ensure “national security in Hong Kong and Macau.” Hong Kong and Macau have […]
In China, a man has been reunited with his real parents after more than 32 years. The man was kidnapped in October 1988, but his mother never stopped looking for her child. So now she has found her son as a 34-year-old businessman. The reunification between son and parents […]
