Updated on 04/01/2022 10:11 am China confined another million inhabitants to a town in the center of the country, after detecting three asymptomatic cases of COVID-19, a month before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Since the epidemic appeared in December 2019, the authorities have applied the strategy “Zero COVID“, Which consists of doing […]
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Boycotts, COVID-19 and controversy mark the final stretch of the Beijing Games
The Beijing Winter Olympics will begin in a month (February 4), marked by diplomatic boycotts, the coronavirus and the uncertainty about tennis player Peng Shuai. From February 4 to 20, the Chinese capital will become the first city to host a Winter and Summer Games, after holding the latter in 2008. Those jousts served as […]
Russia, China, UK, US and France say no one can win a nuclear war
Updated on 01/03/2022 12:33 pm China, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear weapons and an atomic war should be prevented, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers released by the Kremlin. The statement indicated that the five countries – permanent members […]
Indebted Chinese giant Evergrande again suspends stock trading
Updated on 01/03/2022 08:49 am Troubled Chinese real estate giant Evergrande announced on Monday it was suspending its stock trading, without giving a reason. Drowned in $ 300 billion in debt, the firm is now struggling to pay its bondholders and investors, after being trapped by Chinese measures to contain its real estate sector. “Trading […]
China to stop subsidizing electric vehicles by the end of 2022
Updated on 01/01/2022 12:28 pm China abolish subsidies to electric vehicles and hybrids later this year, announced the authorities, who are confident in the solidity of sales in this sector. The Ministry of Finance announced in a statement published on Friday that these purchase aids will be reduced by 30% from the beginning of the […]
China ends 2021 with worst COVID week since original epidemic was controlled
China ended the last week of 2021 with the highest number of local cases of coronavirus in any seven-day period since it controlled the country’s first epidemic nearly two years ago, despite having some of the world’s strictest measures against COVID-19. The National Health Commission on Saturday reported 175 new community infections with confirmed clinical […]
For the United States and China, a year to live in calm?
by James Stavridis Despite all the tension and turmoil that has settled in the relationship between the United States and China, 2022 may turn out to be a small respite. For the next 10 months, President Xi Jinping has other matters to worry about. More important than the disputes with the United States, next year […]
China seeks to be self-sufficient in technology
To help convert to China in a self-sufficient “technological superpower,” the ruler Communist Party is pushing the world’s largest e-commerce company to take on the complicated and expensive task of designing its own computer integrated circuits – a business unlike anything Alibaba Group has done before. Its three-year-old microchip development unit T-Head introduced its third […]
Six events that will mark 2022
High-risk choices for Joe Biden in U.S, An unprecedented soccer World Cup and an expected resurgence of festivals: these will be some of the events expected for 2022. Winter games under tension in Beijing The world elite of winter sports has an appointment at the Olympic Games in Beijing, from February 4 to 20, for […]
Pyrotechnic imports from China fell 85% for year-end parties
Did you also feel that this Christmas there were fewer explosions for fireworks what other years? According to import figures collected by the Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL), this situation could be replicated this New Year’s Eve. According to the CCL’s Foreign Trade Research and Development Institute (Idexcam), fireworks imports to Peru reached a total […]