Category: China
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Adulterated Chinese food poses threats to global health and environment
Food adulteration has become rampant in China, which has affected not only the domestic population but also the countries importing food items from China. Various China-manufactured items including toothpaste, sweets, and dog food contained toxic chemicals, some of them even radioactive. Taiwan found the red dye imported from China for spicy seasoning was carcinogenic. In…
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China has tripled number of surveillance satellites in 6 years: US General warnsz
A United States military official recently said that the Communist regime in China has tripled its number of on-orbit satellites that could be used for intelligence or military purposes in recent years. Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, while addressing a July 17 talk at the Aspen Institute think tank, said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
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According to Manila, China and the Philippines have reached a ‘provisional deal’ for resupply operations in the South China Sea.
MANILA, July 21 (Reuters) – The Philippines and China have “reached an understanding on the provisional arrangement” for resupply missions to a beached Filipino naval ship in the South China Sea, Manila’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) did not provide details on the arrangement for the…
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They previously worked for some of China’s largest firms. Now they are undertaking manual labor.
Leon Li used to play a discreet but indispensable part at one of China’s biggest tech giants. As an administrative officer, she worked around the clock to schedule meetings, prepare documents and provide her bosses with whatever support they needed. But in February, she quit the company, forgoing a stable career and comfortable salary for…
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Laos and China use the BRI-funded railway to bring their armies together.
Hundreds of soldiers from the Chinese army participated in wargames in Southeast Asia during the first two weeks of July. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted joint exercises with the Lao People’s Army from July 5 to 18. The drills, known as Friendship Shield 2024, involved around 900 Laotian and 300 Chinese military personnel. Pictures…
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China launched a new observation satellite for BRI and national security.
China on Friday sent a new Earth observation satellite, the Gaofen-11 05 satellite, into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province. The satellite was launched at 11:03 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-4B carrier rocket, and it entered the planned orbit successfully. China sends a new Earth observation satellite,…
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Will China’s tolerance run out as security risks and provocations mount?
Beijing last week officially confirmed its joint naval exercise with Russia near Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, nearly a week after Moscow announced the patrol. The exercise, which includes anti-submarine and air defence drills as well as search and rescue measures at sea, is the fourth of its kind. It took place under a bilateral agreement to deepen the…
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Talks Between China and the Philippines: A Glimmer of Hope for Tension Reduction?
Although China and the Philippines have resumed bilateral talks, they are far from addressing their differences over the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. After months of tensions that culminated in China’s first-ever interdiction and boarding of Philippine vessels on a resupply mission to the Sierra Madre in June 2024, officials from both countries finally…
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Why Labour is right to hold off on tariffing BYD
The question of whether tariffs should be imposed distracts from the real problem: can Western manufacturers build cheap EVs to compete with their Chinese counterparts. Yesterday, Jonathan Reynolds signaled he was not planning to impose tough tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports, in a sign Britain intends to break from the EU and US and…
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Why China denies building a military base in Tajikistan
Though, China has denied that it is constructing a secret military base in Tajikistan, near areas close to Afghanistan, but reports of The Telegraph, a British daily, which are based on satellite images, maintain that Beijing is constructing the military facility for the last eight years by carving out mountains in the Central Asian nation.…