Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from China

Australian wine growers warn hefty tariffs imposed by China on reds, whites put industry at risk of oversupply as picking season approaches

Wine grape growers say hard decisions need to be made before picking starts next month — with several other industries also hit hard.

ABC News

China’s hospital COVID death data just a 10th of total toll, experts say

The nearly 60,000 COVID-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts said.

Tribune News Service

What Japan’s foreign policy shifts mean for NZ

Tokyo’s dramatic and hawkish turn towards defence in the face of China's growing influence is likely to have ramifications for New Zealand. Geoffrey Miller explains.

Newsroom.co.nz

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Japan, India hold first joint air drill as China concerns grow

Japan and India held their first joint air drills in an area outside of Tokyo as both countries step up military exercises with other countries amid worries about China’s assertiveness.

Tribune News Service

Japan, India launch joint fighter jet drill to strengthen anti-China alliance

Japan and India began their first joint fighter jet exercise on Monday near Tokyo as the countries upgrade defence and security ties with an eye on China's increasing military might.

Radio France Internationale

Massive explosion at China chemical plant kills five with more than 30 injured in disaster

Five were killed and eight remain missing after an enormous fire broke out at a chemical plant on the outskirts of the city of Panjin in north-eastern China, east of the capital of Beijing

Daily Mirror

Guangdong Racks Up $22 Billion Bill Funding ‘Zero Covid’

Local governments’ coffers bore the brunt of the spending, which included mass testing and vaccination campaigns

Caixin Global

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

People in China: tell us how you have been affected by Covid

We would like to speak to people in China amid the country’s Covid outbreak

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: Pandemic Reveals Just How Important Medical Reform Is for China

Coordinated development and regulation of health insurance, medical services and pharmaceuticals should be the tent poles of revamping the health care system

Caixin Global

China’s re-opening after Covid could be very bad news for global inflation

I spent last week in Hong Kong and Singapore, singing for my supper. It was just ahead of Chinese New Year — the Year of the Rabbit begins on January 22 — and, in the past, both cities would have been heaving. On this occasion, however, only Singapore was. Hong…

Evening Standard

Kishida secures cooperation from five G7 leaders

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has secured cooperation from the leaders of the five Group of Seven countries he visited this month on policies toward Russia and China, in preparation for the G7 summit Japan will host in Hiroshima in May.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japanese, U.S. companies rushing to pull production out of China

Companies from Japan, the United States and other nations are accelerating their moves to shift production out of China, to lessen the risk of disruption in their supply chains due to abrupt changes in Chinese government policy and turmoil following the spread of COVID-19.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

UAE Launches 11 Green Energy Projects Worth $43 Bn

The UAE Minister of Energy, Suhail al-Mazrouei, said on Monday that several factors will drive oil prices in 2023, mainly the end of China's zero-COVID policy, the US decision to refill the Strategic Oil Reserve, the sanctions imposed on Russian seaborne oil products, and ongoing global inflation. Mazrouei also said…

Asharq Al-Awsat

China’s Central Bank Puts to Bed Rumor About List of Quality Developers

Lenders can decide which firms qualify for credit support under a new government plan, a PBOC official says

Caixin Global

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Yellen to meet with Chinese finance minister in Switzerland

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to meet with her Chinese counterpart in Switzerland on Wednesday

Reuters

Davos 2023: Yellen to meet China's vice premier Liu He - U.S. Treasury

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in Switzerland on Wednesday to exchange views on economic developments and deepen communication between the world's two largest economies, a Treasury official said.

Reuters

China petrochemical plant shut after deadly explosion - sources

China's Panjin Haoye Chemical Co Ltd has shut down its entire oil refinery and petrochemical complex after an explosion on Sunday killed two people and left 12 missing, according to trade sources and a local consultancy.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Let’s avoid another nuclear arms race

In an annual exercise since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets its Doomsday Clock to provide an educated guess of how close humanity is to the apocalypse. The organization will announce its 2023 clock this month, and I expect the outlook is bleaker.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: What could bring the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war

Since conservative Yoon Suk Yeol became president of South Korea eight months ago, North Korea has drastically increased military provocations. In an incident last month, at least five North Korean drones freely crossed into South Korea’s airspace. One drone infiltrated the northern end of a no-fly zone surrounding the president’s…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt, China Agree to Develop Strategic Partnership

Egypt and China stressed their keenness to develop a comprehensive strategic partnership that brings them together in various fields. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received Sunday Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who is on an African tour that includes five countries. He emphasized China's unwavering support for Egypt in its…

Bangkok Post

China’s hospital Covid death data ‘just a tenth’ of total toll

The nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts said.

The Times of India

Coronavirus: China’s hospital Covid death data just a tenth of total toll

BEIJING: The nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts said.

Caixin Global

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 1.01% on Monday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 1.58%

Al Jazeera

Chinese navy holds ‘confrontational drills’ in South China Sea

Drills came as the US Nimitz carrier group also conducted ‘maritime strike training’ in the contested waterway.

Tribune News Service

China’s deep-pocketed tourists are staying home, for now

During last year’s bruising COVID lockdown in Shanghai, Qin Bing dreamed of traveling overseas. As China reopens its borders on Sunday after three years of COVID isolation, however, the 36-year-old marketing manager is staying put.

1 … 1359 1360 1361 1362

People

Christian Schmollinger

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

United Nations

37,349 stories

2,874 stories

World Health Organization

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.