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Chinese credit card processor UnionPay rebuffs Russian banks: Report

UnionPay's decision affects Sberbank, Russia's biggest commercial bank, and smaller institutions, RBC reported Wednesday

Xi Jinping urges greater global coordination to aid pandemic recovery

China's President Xi Jinping urged greater coordination of global efforts to fight the pandemic, calling for a continued focus on people's health despite debate over the costs of Covid Zero policies

China inducts 3 warships into PLA Navy ahead of its founding anniversary

China has built many advanced warships like the Type 052D destroyer, the Type 055 large destroyer and the Type 075 amphibious assault ships over the past few years

Communist Party urges support for Xi as anger grows on Covid lockdowns

China is struggling to contain a worsening outbreak that risks weakening growth in the world's second-largest economy and disrupting global supply chains

Covid surge hits record high in Shanghai amid growing public anger

The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 3,472 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, besides 20,782 asymptomatic cases, according to the National Health Commission (NHC)

With problems of his own, Xi hesitates on bailing out SL, Pak as debt soars

China hasn't reissued loans totalling $4 billion that Pakistan repaid in late March, and hasn't responded to Sri Lanka's pleas for $2.5 billion in credit support

Hong Kong: Future tense

It is now clear that with growing CCP control, the space for dissent and criticism is shrinking in Hong Kong

Families of Tiananmen massacre victims await justice amid China suppression

The victims of the massacre still await justice after over two decades of the tragic incident

Shanghai's Covid lockdown risks becoming biggest crisis of Xi's tenure

The struggle to obtain daily necessities like food and medical care has triggered rare pushback from residents, with some saying the Communist Party's cure is worse than the disease

China's Xi Jinping strongly backs Afghanistan at regional conference

Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country's Taliban leaders.

China's ambitions for Afghanistan on show at multinational meetings

China's ambitions to have a major hand in Afghanistan's stability and development under the Taliban, while boosting its own stature, will be on display at a pair of multinational meetings

Shanghai locks down half of city to fight Covid-19 outbreak: Report

The outbreak is testing country's virus strategy, which is proving tougher to prosecute amid more contagious variants and is dragging on the world's 2nd-largest economy as rest of the globe normalises

UK PM Johnson in 'candid' call with Chinese President Xi Jinping

The leaders discussed a range of issues of mutual interest including the situation in the Ukraine, a Downing Street spokesperson said, in a readout of the phone call.

China could boost military in Solomons, shows leaked documents

A leaked document indicates that China could boost its military presence in the Solomon Islands including with ship visits in a development that is raising alarm in nearby Australia and beyond. The Solomon Islands revealed on Thursday it had signed a policing cooperation agreement with China. But more concerning to Australia was the draft text of a broader security arrangement that was leaked online. Under the terms of the draft agreement, China could send police, military personnel, and other armed forces to the Solomons to assist in maintaining social order and for a variety of other reasons. It could also send ships to the islands for stopovers and to replenish supplies. The draft agreement stipulates that China would need to sign off on any information that's released about joint security arrangements, including at media briefings. Anna Powles, a senior lecturer in international security at New Zealand's Massey University, said Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. would all b

China's Xi Jinping leaves Zelensky out of Ukraine diplomatic push

Zelenskiy aide Andriy Yermak on Tuesday called for an exchange with Xi sometime "very soon"

China's foreign minister Wang Yi makes surprise stop in Afghanistan

The official Bakhtar News Agency announced Wang Yi will meet with Taliban leaders to discuss various issues including the extension of political relations, economic, and transit cooperation

Shanghai denies lockdown rumours as daily Covid-19 infections near 1,000

Authorities to stick with a 'slicing and gridding' approach to screen neighbourhoods one by one, rather than shut down entirely.

US monitoring China over possible supply of military weapons to Russia

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday said that the US is closely monitoring China over possible weapon supply to Russia.He also added that the US administration has not seen China provide military equipment to Russia since President Joe Biden spoke with China's President Xi Jinping last Friday."I can't make predictions going forward. What I can tell you is we have not seen since those meetings or since the President's conversation with Xi, the provision of military equipment by China to Russia, but of course, this is something we are monitoring closely," Sullivan told reporters, reported CNN News.This comes in the backdrop of talks held between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday. During the talks Biden sought to dissuade Xi from assisting Russia, warning his Chinese counterpart during a 110-minute long video call of the "implications and consequences" for Beijing if it were to provide material support to Moscow.Sullivan asserted, "We will continue to ...

Alibaba Group Holding ups buybacks to $25 billion; crackdown to ease

Move represents one of the largest shareholder-reward programmes

Pressed to choose between Russia and Ukraine, China trade favors the West

Biden's warning of "consequences" for any aid China may give to Russia's Ukraine war effort aims to force Chinese President Xi to choose a longstanding lucrative trade relationship with West