BEIJING, China -- Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgement that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics. China this month has...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday he will seek China's help in persuading North Korea to sit down for talks after Pyongyang's slew of missile tests ratcheted up tensions. Blinken, who plans to visit Beijing in early 2023 in the first trip by the top US...
CHONGQING, China -- Elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battled a wave of Covid cases. The virus is surging across the vast Asian nation in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing. And with...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States is flouting international trade rules by labeling imports from Hong Kong as those from China, the World Trade Organization ruled Wednesday, an outcome that Washington rejects. The WTO ruling addressed a decision under former president Donald Trump's...
China said Thursday it will not occupy nor reclaim the uninhabited islands and reefs of the Spratly Islands as it maintains that it "always abides" by a declaration it agreed on with Southeast Asian countries. Mao Ning, spokesperson of China's Foreign Ministry, said in a press conference that...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has called out China for its supposedly continuous reclamation activities in the unoccupied features in the South China Sea as they violate the existing agreement on the contested water. DFA issued on Tuesday night a statement following the release of a...
Senator Risa Hontiveros said she expects President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to assert the Philippines’ sovereign and legal rights in the West Philippine Sea in his upcoing state visit to China in January 2023. “I expect nothing less than a firm assertion of our sovereign and legal...
The United States’ move to support the Philippines’ complaints against China is a “welcome development,” Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said on Wednesday, December 21. “Salamat, salamat! It’s a welcome development, yang statement ng US Department of State na yan (That statement...
With its vessels swarming the West Philippine Sea and its coast guard forcibly taking rocket debris from the Philippine Navy, China has made an accusation that it is the United States that is attempting to “stir up” troubles between China and the Philippines. The Chinese Embassy in Manila on...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. should bring up the country’s diplomatic protest against the repeated aggression of the Chinese Coast Guard in the West Philippine Sea when he visits Beijing next month. Sen. Francis Tolentino made the suggestion as he renewed his call for freedom of...
The United States has expressed its support for the Philippines in its call for China to "respect international law" as the Asian giant continues to conduct alarming activities in the South China Sea, including swarming the waters. In a statement, US Department of States spokesman Ned...
In Xiaohongshu, a lifestyle app commonly referred to as China's Instagram, thousands of posts bearing the hashtag “American farm style” have taken social media by storm. Photo by Tony Mucci/Pexels While imitating American life has been an evolving theme for many social media influencers...
