How Beijing Turned China’s Covid-19 Tragedy to Its Advantage
One year ago this week, the Chinese Communist Party was on the verge of its biggest crisis in decades. The coronavirus had brought the city of Wuhan to a halt.…
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China’s state-owned enterprises face ‘much tighter credit,’ economist predicts
SINGAPORE — The Chinese economy enters 2021 following a strong bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and Deutsche Bank’s Michael Spencer predicts that deleveraging will return as a focus for…
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How COVID-19 Slipped China’s Grasp
The most famous doctor in China was on an urgent mission. Celebrated as the hero who helped uncover the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic, or SARS, 17 years ago, Dr.…
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What awaits Biden and Greenfield at the UN: the Paris climate accords and China’s rise
“America is back. Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations said last month. Biden has promised to rebuild…
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How China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats troll enemies on Twitter
China has a new weapon in its global information warfare arsenal: “wolf warriors.” Named after a popular Chinese nationalistic film franchise, “wolf warriors” are official government diplomats whose duties go…
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New Zealand joins Australia in denouncing China’s tweet
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand has joined Australia in denouncing a graphic tweet posted by a Chinese official that shows a fake image of a grinning Australian soldier…
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Xi touts China’s huge economy as base of free trade in APEC speech
President Xi Jinping pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade Thursday, vowing to keep his “super-sized” economy open and warning against protectionism in a global economy eviscerated…
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Australia, Japan to bolster defense ties amid China’s rise
TOKYO (AP) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is in Japan to hold talks with his Japanese counterpart, Yoshihide Suga, to bolster defense ties between the two U.S. allies to…
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China’s climate change commitment to become carbon neutral by 2060, explained
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Imagine China — the world’s top emitter of carbon, which in 2019…
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United Nations: China’s Xi Jinping showed he understands the system better than Trump
President Donald Trump spent most of his United Nations speech blasting China — for its handling of the coronavirus, for its contributions to pollution, for its trade policy. China’s President…
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