Feb 28 China will soon train foreign astronauts for new space station By Associated Press China says it will soon begin training foreign astronauts for trips to its newly completed orbiting space station. Continue reading
Feb 28 3 years into COVID-19 pandemic, disease origins remain a mystery By Laura Ungar, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab? Governments and health agencies around the world have been trying to answer that question since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Continue reading
Feb 28 Belarusian president to meet with China’s Xi Jinping amid Ukraine tensions By Associated Press Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, is due in Beijing to begin a three-day state visit. Continue reading
Feb 28 China claims it’s been ‘open and transparent’ on COVID origins By Associated Press China had “shared the most data and research results on virus tracing and made important contributions to global virus tracing research," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning Mao told reporters. Continue reading
Feb 24 Workers continue to dig in search for 47 missing at China mine By Ng Han Guan, Associated Press Work crews trying to find 47 people missing after an open-pit mine collapse in northern China have had to change their excavation methods to avoid causing more landslides. Continue reading
Feb 24 WATCH: Pentagon unveils new Ukraine weapons package, Russia sanctions By Fatima Hussein, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The Biden administration declared its solidarity with Ukraine with fresh action as well as strong words on Friday, piling sweeping new sanctions on Moscow and approving a new $2 billion weapons package to re-arm Kyiv a year after Russia’s invasion. Continue reading
Feb 24 WATCH: Blinken speaks at U.N. Security Council ministerial meeting on Ukraine By Matthew Lee, Associated Press The State Department announced late Thursday that Blinken would travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan before going to India for a meeting of the Group of 20 foreign ministers from the world’s largest industrialized and developing countries, including China and Russia. Continue reading
Feb 23 China calls for cease-fire in Ukraine, peace talks By Associated Press China has claimed to be neutral in the conflict, but it has a "no limits" relationship with Russia and has refused to criticize its invasion of Ukraine over even refer to it as such. Continue reading
Feb 23 China’s global influence worries many in the U.S., says AP-NORC poll By Josh Boak, Hannah Fingerhut, Associated Press A new poll shows that just 40 percent of U.S. adults approve of how President Joe Biden is handling relations with China, and a majority of them are anxious about Beijing's global influence. Continue reading
Feb 23 More bodies found in China open-pit mine collapse, 48 remain missing By Ng Han Guan, Associated Press Rescuers with backhoes and bulldozers dug through tons of earth and rubble Thursday for 48 people missing after a landslide buried an open-pit mine in northern China. State broadcaster CCTV reported that the confirmed death toll in the disaster rose… Continue reading