China has denounced the US sending of yet another warship through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, saying the new US administration was using an old trick of “mixed manipulation” of the situation to deliberately create tensions in the region.
Friday, 29 January 2021_President Xi Jinping has said China should foresee various risks and challenges, and make contingency plans for “black swan” and “gray rhino” events, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
The United Kingdom has launched an immigration visa scheme that will offer millions of qualifying Hong Kong citizens a path to British citizenship, with Beijing underlining that it would not recognize the immigration program, which comes in response to China’s new security laws in the former colony.
Friday, 29 January 2021_President Xi Jinping has said China should foresee various risks and challenges, and make contingency plans for “black swan” and “gray rhino” events, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
Wednesday, 27 January 2021_China says its military exercises near Taiwan are a “solemn warning” to secessionist factions in the self-ruled island and their foreign supporters.
Wednesday, 27 January 2021_Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran will take proper action whenever the United States lifts the sanctions to pave the way for its return to the 2015 nuclear deal, stressing that the Islamic Republic takes Washington’s actions, not words, as its yardstick.
Tuesday, 26 January 2021_Chinese President Xi Jinping has implicitly warned US President Joe Biden that he would risk a “new Cold War” if he followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, Donald Trump, calling for multilateralism instead.
Saturday, 23 January 2021_China has introduced a new law that allows its coast guard, for the first time, to open fire on foreign vessels deemed to pose threats, a move that could make the contested waters around China more turbulent.
Monday, 18 January 2021_China displays artefacts from an unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon, which returned safely to Earth early Thursday, including the reentry module of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft.
Saturday, 16 January 2021 (YJC)_ Amid fears of further violence in Washington from Trump supporters, Chinese embassy in US warns citizens to avoid protests.
Sunday, 10 January 2021 _China has confirmed that one of its soldiers lost on the border with India has been found by Indian troops, calling on New Delhi to “promptly" return the soldier.
Thursday, 07 January 2021_The Democratic Republic of the Congo says China has offered some debt relief in a bid to ease pressure on the central African country ravaged by the COVID-19 crisis.
Sunday, 03 January 2021_China has sent a stern warning to the United Kingdom against plans to deploy warships to the disputed South China Sea, threatening that such a "hostile" move would provoke retaliation from Beijing.
Sunday, 03 January 2021_The out-going administration of US President Donald Trump is reportedly trying to verify intelligence alleging that China has offered to pay militants in Afghanistan to kill American troops.