Beijing, China | Xinhua | The U.S. side has repeatedly spread false information related to the Ukraine issue to smear and discredit China in order to shirk their own responsibility, which is hypocritical and despicable, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday. Wang Wenbin made the remarks when asked to …
Read More »Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy contradicts pledge to avoid conflicts with China: report
Hong Kong, China | Xinhua | The recent Indo-Pacific strategy unveiled by U.S. President Joe Biden is at odds with his pledges to avoid conflict and a cold war with China, according to a recent editorial published by the South China Morning Post. Most aspects of the document lean toward countering …
Read More »An insight into Chinese tech world
China is a global tech player at par with the United States or Western Europe with its own rules and regulations | JOHN PAUL RUGABA | It’s September 12, 2018 and I have just landed in China. Apart from the breath taking scenery, new language and culture, I notice …
Read More »China supports Russia in solving issue through negotiation with Ukraine
Beijing, China | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Friday held a phone conversation. During the phone conversation, Xi thanked Putin again for coming to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and congratulated the Russian athletes on finishing …
Read More »China urges Britain to cease meddling in Hong Kong affairs
Beijing, China | Xinhua | The so-called British National Overseas (BNO) passport is not recognized by China, and Britain should stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs in any form, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in Beijing on Friday. It has been reported that Britain will in October put forward a new …
Read More »Kim congratulates Xi on successful Beijing Winter Olympics
Beijing, China | Xinhua | Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, has sent a verbal message to Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), to express warm congratulations on the successful Beijing Winter Olympics. In the message, Kim …
Read More »Nixon-Mao at 50
COMMENT | CHRIS PATTEN | In Seize the Hour, her excellent book about the first meeting between US President Richard Nixon and Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, the historian Margaret MacMillan enumerated some of the profound implications of this extraordinary encounter. The meeting, which took place 50 years ago …
Read More »U.S. “genocide” allegation is lie of century: spokesperson
Beijing, China | Xinhua | The U.S. “genocide” allegation is a lie of the century, which fully exposes its sinister intention of politicizing the Winter Olympics and maliciously smearing China with Xinjiang-related issues, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily …
Read More »China ready to buy more pork for reserves to support prices
Beijing, China | Xinhua | China’s top economic planner said on Tuesday that it is ready to stockpile pork, the country’s staple meat, for state reserves, as an index monitoring pork prices triggered a second-level warning. The index, the national average of pork prices against grain prices, came in at 5.57 …
Read More »TotalEnergies, CNOOC sign off $10bn Uganda oil project
First oil expected in 2025 Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Finally, the international oil companies, TotalEnergies SE and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced they are ready to produce oil in Uganda in a US$10 billion project. Reaching this point had taken a whopping 15 years of …
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