China will adopt a package of targeted, forceful and effective measures to support the economy, state television said, citing a cabinet statement, amid downward pressure on activity. China will make every effort to return its economic operations to normal, the cabinet said. “Currently, the downward pressure on the economy continues to increase and it is […]
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Chinese megacity of Guangzhou cancels flights and carries out mass tests after a case of COVID-19
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Lima, 04/28/2022 08:56 am China’s megacity of Guangzhou on Thursday canceled hundreds of flights and ordered 5.6 million people to be tested after detecting a suspected case of COVID-19, as the country grapples with an outbreak of the coronavirus. Canton, an important commercial and manufacturing pole in the south of Chinabegan testing almost a third […]
Confinement in Shanghai: the effects generated by the zero COVID policy in China
A BBC Mundo article recounts the vicissitudes that a Colombian woman lives in China -specifically in Shanghai due to confinement due to COVID cases. She affirms – to the BBC – that she had “never” experienced a situation like the current one. This is his story: early Monday morning, Chinese police knocked on the door […]
Shanghai lockdown threatens to roil global economy
The city of Shanghai in China, the world’s main container port, is under lockdown due to COVID-19, a measure that disrupts the Chinese economy and threatens supply chains around the world. To deal with the worst wave of COVID-19 that China has faced since the start of the pandemic, the country’s economic capital – with […]
Don’t expect China to make peace in Ukraine
By Minxin Pei Any hope that US President Joe Biden can persuade his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to help stop the war in Ukraine should probably be shelved. China wants to see an early end to the conflict. But he will not use his influence to achieve it. Biden and Xi apparently talked about different […]
A plane with 132 passengers crashes in southwestern China; airline confirms deceased
A China Eastern Airlines company plane with 132 people on board crashed on Monday in southwestern China, the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) reported, without offering a balance of victims at the moment. The Boeing 737 was flying from the city of Kunming to the metropolis of Canton, but “lost contact while flying over the […]
China tightens confinement due to COVID rebound: Jilin residents will not be able to leave their homes
Chinese authorities announced a tightening of lockdown measures in the country’s northeast on Sunday, just as the southern metropolis of Shenzhen was preparing to lift its restrictions. The The Asian country registered 4,053 new cases of COVID this Sunday, two-thirds of them in Jilin, a province bordering North Korea and Russia. The inhabitants of the […]
Ukraine asks China to “condemn Russian barbarism”
Updated on 03/19/2022 11:52 am The Ukrainian authorities asked on Saturday to China to join Western countries and “condemn barbarism russian” on Ukraine. “China can be an important element of the world security system if it makes the right decision to support the coalition of civilized countries and condemns Russian barbarism,” Mikhailo Podoliak, adviser to […]
Venezuela and China review bilateral agenda to “deepen” their alliance
Updated on 03/19/2022 11:32 am the chancellor of VenezuelaFélix Plasencia, informed this Saturday that he held a meeting with the ambassador of China in the Caribbean country, Li Baorong, to review the bilateral agenda with which they “deepen” the strategic alliance. “In order to review the issues on the bilateral agenda that deepen the strategic […]
Biden exposed to Xi the consequences of China helping Russian invasion
the president of United States, Joe Bidenwarned the Chinese leader, Xi Jinpingthat there will be “consequences” if Beijing gives material support to the invasion russian from Ukrainereported the White House, with both sides stressing the need for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. In a video call that lasted just under two hours, at a […]