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China and the United States did not reach an agreement on climate change, with Beijing rebuffing calls to make more public pledges on climate change before a United Nations climate summit in November, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Friday citing a source. “China already has its own …

North Korea has rejected roughly three million COVID-19 vaccine doses of China’s Sinovac Biotech, saying they should be sent to severely affected countries, the UNICEF said on Wednesday. The isolated country’s public ministry pointed to the limited global supply for vaccines and continuing virus surges elsewhere, according to the UN …

Leading scholars and lawyers are joining politicians and human rights groups in Britain Wednesday for the first large-scale conference to discuss the Chinese government’s alleged genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group in the northwest Xinjiang region. The three-day conference at Newcastle University brings together dozens of speakers, including senior British …

The Kurdistan Regional Government devised a plan to provide facilities to industrial and commercial investments in the region, spokesperson for Kurdistan’s Ministry of Trade and Industry Nozad al-Sheikh Kamel Mahmoud said on Tuesday. Mahmoud’s comments came in a statement he made before the third online conference of Kurdistan and China …

Chinese authorities have instructed an American Chamber of Commerce in the southwestern city of Chengdu to cease operations, officials with the organization said on Tuesday. The chamber notified members on Monday that, in accordance with Chinese laws and regulations, it had to stop operations and “no longer carry out any …

China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far on the game industry. Minors in China can only play games between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, weekends, and on public holidays starting September 1, according to a …

Chinese State councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed Afghanistan and US-China relations in a phone call on Sunday, Chinese state media said, amid tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Wang said it is necessary for all sides to engage with the …

China has blasted a “mendacious” report by the US intelligence community that concluded a months-long investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, warning Washington against politicization of the issue. The strong condemnation by China’s Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu on Saturday came a day after the US intelligence report on …

A US warship and a US Coast Guard cutter sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, the latest in what Washington calls routine operations through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, which claims the self-ruled island. The passage comes amid a spike in military tensions in the past …

China, in the midst of a rapid nuclear weapons buildup, will soon surpass Russia as the United States’ top nuclear threat, a senior U.S. military official said on Friday, warning that the two countries have no mechanisms to avert miscommunication. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas Bussiere, the deputy commander …

U.S. officials have approved license applications worth hundreds of millions of dollars for China’s blacklisted telecom company Huawei to buy chips for its growing auto component business, two people familiar with the matter said. Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, has been hobbled by trade restrictions imposed by the …

Iraq has signed an initial agreement with POWERCHINA to build solar power plants with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts, the government said on Wednesday. The first stage of the project will have a capacity of 750 megawatts, the Iraqi cabinet added in a tweet. Power from Iraq’s main grid suffers …

China criticized Wednesday the US “politicization” of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding a US military laboratory be investigated, shortly before the release of a US intelligence community report on the virus. The US report is intended to resolve disputes among intelligence agencies considering different theories about …

The Chinese government says Washington’s acts to smear and suppress China have harshly harmed the Asian Americans and intensified the racial discrimination in the US. The US Justice Department started the China Initiative three years ago under former President Donald Trump to counter what it termed China’s “national security threats” and …

China has called on the United States to stop pointing the accusing finger at other countries over the lab-leaking theory concerning the origin of the coronavirus pandemic and to investigate its own bio-labs instead. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin made the call on Monday as he stressed that the …

China has called on the United States to stop pointing the accusing finger at other countries over the lab-leaking theory concerning the origin of the coronavirus pandemic and to investigate its own bio-labs instead. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin made the call on Monday as he stressed that the …

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has slammed the United States for imposing new sanctions on Russia over its sprawling undersea pipeline project, transferring Russian gas to Europe. According to Press TV, the ministry criticized the US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 as a “groundless” move that violates international law. Washington claims …

Construction works on the long-anticipated cross-border railway bridge linking Russia and China across the Amur River have been completed, with the Russian and Chinese sections of the tracks now connected. Installation of the last section of rails was completed, China’s Central Television reports. The 2,209-meter (1.4 mile) structure links Russia’s …

A suicide bomber in Pakistan attacked a motorcade of Chinese personnel on Friday, injuring one Chinese national and killing two local children, the Chinese embassy said on Saturday. “The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan strongly condemns this act of terrorism, extends its sincere sympathies to the injured of both countries, and …

China has again called on the US to abide by the provisions of the Beijing-Washington communique and halt military ties to Chinese Taipei, insisting that the island territory is an inalienable part of China. Marking the 39th anniversary of the issuance of the communique regarding arms sales to the Chinese …