Tag: Beijing

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Beijing furious with Vargas Llosa for saying combating the coronavirus outbreak would be different if China was a democracy

  

  China hit out on Monday at Peru's Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa for allegedly expressing “irresponsible and prejudiced opinions” over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 07:04 UTC

  US approves rules on imports from countries that undervalue their currencies

  

  The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday finalized a new rule to impose anti-subsidy duties on products from countries that it has determined undervalue their currencies against the dollar, including potentially China.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Beijing furious with US over warning American citizens to avoid China

  

  Beijing on Friday sharply criticized the United States for warning American citizens to avoid China and for urging those already there to leave due to the coronavirus health emergency.

• Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  The political responsibility of Beijing in the spread of the coronavirus

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is it can respond very fast. The bad thing is it won’t respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won’t risk their positions by passing bad news up the line until the risk of being blamed for delay outweighs the risk of being blamed for the emergency in the first place.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 17:34 UTC

  Chinese media warned not to “nitpick” the US/Beijing Phase 1 trade deal

  

  Chinese state media on Thursday warned against any “nitpicking” as Beijing portrayed the Phase 1 trade deal with United States and its new commitments to massive purchases of US goods as a boon for China's economy.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Beijing will not change its position despite Taiwan's president landslide election victory; threats from Xinhua news agency

  

  China will not change its position that Taiwan belongs to it, Beijing said on Sunday, after President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election and said she would not submit to China’s threats, as state media warned she was courting disaster.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 14:28 UTC

  Chinese fishing vessels withdraw from Indonesian EEZ, following standoff with Beijing

  

  Dozens of Chinese vessels which were fishing in Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Natuna are leaving the area, the Indonesian military said on Thursday, after days of stand-off.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Indonesia/China fisheries dispute escalates after Jakarta deploys fighter jets

  

  Indonesia's air force deployed four fighter jets to the South China Sea on Tuesday in a stand-off with Beijing after Jakarta protested over a Chinese violation of its exclusive economic zone.

• Saturday, January 4th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  China pumps an extra US$ 115bn stimulus to the economy effective Monday

  

  China moved to pump more cash into its financial system, suggesting that Beijing remained concerned about faltering growth despite signs that the world's second-largest economy was stabilizing.

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Beijing sends naval force with a carrier to intimidate Taiwan's presidential election

  

  China has sailed a carrier group into the sensitive Taiwan Strait led by its first domestically built aircraft carrier as election campaigning kicked into high gear on the self-ruled island on Sunday. Taiwan's foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said they would not be intimidated.