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A Chinese health official has warned that the province surrounding Beijing is facing a ‘very arduous task’ to curb a new coronavirus outbreak after dozens of people tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. Ma Xiaowei, a director of China’s National Health Commission, described the situation in Hebei as ‘severe’ after he arrived in the province of … Read more
A new Chinese carrier rocket has made its first flight today, paving the way towards China’s ambitious mission of sending travellers into space by 2045. The medium-lift Long March 8 Y-1 blasted off at 12.37 pm (04.37am GMT) from the southern Chinese island of Hainan carrying five satellites, state media reported. The newly launched rocket … Read more
President Donald Trump has tweeted video of a Chinese professor suggesting that China has managed to influence U.S. policy for decades thanks to a special network of relationships with people at the upper echelons of American power. The video, which had originally been posted on Weibo but has since been removed from Chinese social media according … Read more
Beijing’s space authority has released a picture of a Chinese national flag being displayed on the moon as its lunar probe Chang’e-5 makes its way back to Earth bringing lunar samples for the first time in 40 years. The flag was made of fabric and weighed 12 grams (0.4 ounces), said the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP). … Read more
Three Hong Kong protest leaders including Joshua Wong were placed in custody today after pleading guilty to inciting a rally during last year’s pro-democracy protests, deepening the crackdown against Beijing’s critics. Wong, 24, was prosecuted alongside fellow activists Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow over a protest which took place last summer outside the city police … Read more
Chinese state-backed media says Beijing is preparing for a ‘final act of madness’ by Trump Chinese state media warns Trump is sowing seeds of sabotage for Joe Biden Trump’s recent executive orders against Beijing are ‘landmines’ for Biden If Biden tries to reverse them he’ll be painted as ‘Panda Hugger,’ state media says Comes after Trump unveiled … Read more
A Chinese virologist who claims the coronavirus was cooked up in a military lab has accused Beijing of fabricating the virus genome data to cover up its ‘unrestricted bioweapon’. Although scientists are still unravelling the origin of the pandemic, it is widely suggested that the virus had jumped onto humans from wild animals, such as bats … Read more
Dominic Raab refuses to rule out boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and Prince William may not attend over concerns about China’s abuse of Uighur Muslims Foreign Secretary said there is ‘evidence of egregious human rights violations’ China previously denied claims it is carrying out forced sterilisation of Muslims Around 380 sites in the Xinjiang … Read more
Ex-MI6 agent, 73, ‘spied for China’: Former British diplomat and European Commission official is probed over claims he gave information to Beijing Fraser Cameron, 73, has said that the allegations against him were ‘ridiculous’ It is alleged that he was paid by China to supply information on EU institutions An investigation into this by federal … Read more
At last the world is waking up to the horrors inflicted by the Chinese Communist party upon the people it has colonised. In the past few days alone, we have seen pictures of chained and blindfolded Uighurs being forced on to trains to take them to concentration camps. US customs officers have seized a ship … Read more