Tag: China

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Paraguay in the process of switching Taiwan for the Chinese market?

  

  Is Paraguay about to dump Taiwan for China? Landlocked Paraguay and a leading exporter of soybeans and beef, plus an ample surplus of hydroelectric energy, is the only country in South America, and Mercosur member, that still has full diplomatic relations with Taipei, and continues to give its back to Beijing, but this could be changing or in a transition process.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Iran trying to recover the Chinese oil market share which Russia has taken over

  

  Iran is reportedly gearing up to slash the price of its sanctioned crude oil stored offshore Singapore, in an attempt to recover the China market from Russia, reports The Straits Times quoting local industry sources.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Chinese sanctions on Uruguay's Frigorífico Rosario lifted

  

  Uruguay's Frigorífico Rosario has been allowed to resume exports to China following a sanction on Sept. 30, 2021, that banned the meat processing plant from sending shipments to the Asian giant, Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries Fernando Mattos announced.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  US, China, India, UK, Russia, the largest military spenders in 2021, SIPRI report

  

  World military spending continued to grow in 2021, reaching an all-time high of US$ 2.1 trillion. This was the seventh consecutive year that spending increased, according to the latest data on military spending published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

• Tuesday, September 13th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Deep changes in China's beef market expected for 2023, USDA report

  

  Economic hardships, combined with the government’s determination to keep its zero-tolerance policy for Covid-19, are likely to bring Chinese beef imports down by 19.4% in 2023, according to the latest report by USDA

• Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  US to increase military aid to Taiwan

  

  Funding worth more than US$ 1.1 billion has been pledged from the United States to Taiwan, according to Pentagon sources quoted Friday by the press. The measure will help the island strengthen its missile and radar systems, a State Department spokesman also said.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Bachelet's last report critical of China regarding Uighurs

  

  Former two-time Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Wednesday filed a report on China's “Crimes against humanity” on her last day as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) as she left her office to a standing ovation.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  Millions of Chinese citizens again under lockdown amid zero-COVID policies

  

  Chinese authorities have once again placed millions of people under lockdown following the resurgence of an outbreak of COVID-19 of the Omicron variant and as a consequence of the national government's zero-COVID policy.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Republican Governor lands in Taiwan in yet another chafing mission for Beijing

  

  Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey Tuesday landed in Taipei in yet another US delegation trip enraging Beijing over direct ties between sovereign countries and the island the Asian giant deems a rogue province.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 20:46 UTC

  Tensions heat up in Indo-Pacific after US Navy sends cruisers

  

  China has said the United States was trying to disrupt peace in the Taiwan Strait after two warships sailed through the waters between the mainland and what Beijing regards as a rogue province in what Washington dubbed a routine drill.