Up to 13 million people have been placed into lockdown in the city of Xi’an in China, as […]
China locks down 13 million people in Xi’an after detecting 127 Covid cases
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Show caption Labour MP Barry Gardiner took £420,000 from Christine Ching Kui Lee, who MI5 says has established […]
Sanction-hit Huawei says revenues down 29% this year
Show caption Huawei has pivoted into new business lines to cushion the blow of US sanctions. Photograph: Chukrut […]
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Chinese citizens are running out of food, other essentials as govt imposes harsh Covid curbs
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Hong Kong’s new legislature is a mockery of democracy
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China accuses Walmart of ‘stupidity’ over missing Xinjiang items
The United States and the United Nations have accused China of suppressing the predominantly Muslim Uighur population. China […]
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I N “THE COAL QUESTION” , written in 1865, William Stanley Jevons, a British economist, ascribed “miraculous powers” […]
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Show caption The Capitol in Washington DC, January 2021. ‘Increasingly, for today’s politicians, honourable defeat is a wholly […]