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  Ahead of Xi Jinping, Joe Biden virtual meeting, FM Wang Yi, Antony Blinken discuss ties over phone

  World | November 13, 2021 13:42 IST

  The virtual meeting will be the 3rd engagement between the two leaders since the month of February.

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  Chinese leaders preparing official history to elevate Xi Jinping: Why it's significant

  World | November 11, 2021 16:16 IST

  China's ruling Communist Party removed term limits on Xi Jinping's post as president in 2018, indicating his intention to stay in power.

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  4 killed, 3 injured in chemical plant explosion in China

  World | October 23, 2021 12:30 IST

  The blast took place at around 11:00 pm on Friday at a workshop of a chemical plant in Bayan Obo industrial park in Alxa League.

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  As 13th round of military talks fail, China starts war propaganda, forgets Galwan valley set back

  India | October 12, 2021 0:04 IST

  Threatening India will lose a war if, at all one breaks over border disputes with China, Beijing seems to have probably forgotten how Indian soldiers killed their PLA troops without weapons in the Galwan Valley clash last year in Ladakh.

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  Factories idled in China as country faces acute power crisis; shortages of global goods foreshadowed

  World | September 30, 2021 8:37 IST

  China’s energy consumption and industrial emissions have surged as manufacturers rush to fill foreign demand at a time when competitors elsewhere still are hampered by anti-coronavirus controls.

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  China rejects English language in campaign against Western influence

  World | September 12, 2021 13:48 IST

  The education authorities in Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan city in the country, last month forbade local elementary schools to hold final exams on the English language, reported NYT.

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  Gas explosion in Chinese apartment building kills 8

  India | September 11, 2021 12:47 IST

  5 others were hospitalized with injuries after predawn fire in the coastal city of Dalian.

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  China accuses US of politicizing COVID-19 origins research

  World | August 26, 2021 8:16 IST

  Fu Cong, a Foreign Ministry DG, said at a briefing for foreign journalists that “scapegoating China cannot whitewash the U.S.”

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  China launches emergency response for typhoon-hit areas

  World | July 26, 2021 13:41 IST

  The response was co-activated by China National Commission for Disaster Reduction and Ministry of Emergency Management for disaster-stricken areas including Zhoushan, Shaoxing and Ningbo, Xinhua news agency reported.

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  China begins mass testing for COVID-19 cases in Nanjing city after new virus cluster

  World | July 21, 2021 20:57 IST

  Nanjing, which has a population of more than 9.3 million, plans to carry out city-wide nucleic acid testing after the campaign in Jiangning district concludes, the municipal government said.

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  Beijing-based veterinarian, first human infection case with Monkey B virus, dies

  World | July 18, 2021 20:52 IST

  According to the report, the vet had sought treatment in several hospitals, but he eventually died on May 27. For now, his close contacts were said to be safe.

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  IN PICS: Xi Jinping takes firm line as China Communist Party marks centenary celebrations

  World | July 01, 2021 12:33 IST

  China’s Communist Party is marking the 100th anniversary of its founding with speeches and grand displays intended to showcase economic progress and social stability to justify its iron grip on political power that it shows no intention of relaxing. 

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  Won't be bullied: President Xi Jinping takes firm line as China Communist Party marks centenary

  World | July 01, 2021 12:17 IST

  “At the same time, the Chinese people will absolutely not allow any foreign force to bully, oppress or enslave us and anyone who attempts to do so will face broken heads and bloodshed in front of the iron Great Wall of the 1.4 billion Chinese people,” President Xi Jinping said   

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  China Space Station: First crewed mission to construct new orbiting laboratory launched

  World | June 17, 2021 9:14 IST

  The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gobi Desert. The launch was telecast live by the state-run CGTN-TV.

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  Present image of credible, lovable, respectable China to world: Jinping to Chinese media, diplomats

  India | June 02, 2021 22:35 IST

  President Xi Jinping has asked China's bellicose official media and "wolf warrior" diplomats to present the image of a "credible, lovable and respectable China" to the world, in what observers see as a rare admission of Beijing's growing isolation exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  China offers support, assistance to India to combat rising COVID-19 cases

  World | April 22, 2021 19:34 IST

  Asked about the spike in coronavirus cases in India by official Chinese media, Foreign Ministry spokesman told a media briefing that COVID "pandemic is a common enemy of all mankind that necessitates international solidarity and mutual assistance".

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  Major sandstorm in Beijing causes severe air pollution; yellow alert issued

  World | March 15, 2021 9:43 IST

  A yellow alert was issued in Beijing on Monday. The concentration of harmful PM2.5 particles in the air was about eight times the standard level (247 micrograms per cubic meter vs the recommended 25 micrograms).

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  Biden in first discussion with Xi as US Prez discusses human rights in Xinjiang, trade, other issues

  World | February 11, 2021 23:51 IST

  US President Joe Biden raised the issue of human rights in Xinjiang, the crackdown in Hong Kong and the trade disputes in his first discussion with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jingping after taking over, the White House said on Thursday.

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  Beijing at -19.6 deg C records coldest morning in over five decades

  World | January 07, 2021 12:00 IST

  The mercury dipped to minus 19.6 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning in Beijing as a strong cold wave swept through the city, marking the coldest morning in the Chinese capital since 1966.

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  Railways says it won't resume trains in Punjab with conditions

  India | November 12, 2020 17:32 IST

  Railways has said that it will not go ahead with conditional resumption of trains after Punjab government had agreed to it. Railways has said that it will not run trains until state government gives complete assurance of no interference along the tracks.