Tag: China

Wednesday, March 17th 2021 - 08:55 UTC
UK's overhaul of foreign and defense policy: Democracy is in retreat around the world, Minister Raab

Democracy is in retreat around the world, British foreign minister Dominic Raab will warn on Wednesday in a speech setting out the danger that autocratic regimes pose to global stability and prosperity.
Saturday, March 13th 2021 - 08:59 UTC
Foreign investment in China in Jan-Feb up 31,5% year on year

China, which achieved a V-shaped economic recovery last year, attracted 176.76 billion yuan (US$ 27.18 billion) in foreign investments in January-February, up 31.5% year-on-year, the commerce ministry in Beijing said on Friday.
Saturday, March 13th 2021 - 08:05 UTC
China represented 17% of the global economy in pandemic plagued 2020

China's economic output is forecast to account for more than 17% of the world's economy in the coronavirus-plagued 2020. As the sole economy recording positive GDP growth last year, China will ramp up efforts and strive to achieve higher quality, more efficient, sustainable and safer development in 2021, a senior government official revealed in Beijing.
Friday, March 12th 2021 - 13:20 UTC
Brazilian record pork exports in first two months; China the main market

Brazilian pork exports (fresh and processed) recorded a 20.3% increase in February, totaling 81,100 tons compared to 67,400 tons registered in the same period in 2020. Revenues from sales in February totaled US$ 185.7 million, 19.9% higher than the second month of 2020 when sales reached US$ 154.9 million.
Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 05:24 UTC
China calls for de-escalation in Myanmar and “it's time for dialogue”

China called on Wednesday in the UN Security Council for a “de-escalation” in the crisis in Myanmar, where the junta has pursued a violent crackdown against peaceful anti-coup demonstrators.
Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:49 UTC
Chinese foreign trade booming in the first two months of 2021

China's total goods imports and exports expanded 32.2% year on year to 5.44 trillion Yuan (some US$ 838.16 billion) in the first two months of 2021, sustaining growth momentum in previous months, official data showed. Exports jumped 50.1% while imports rose 14.5% in Yuan terms, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:34 UTC
Inflation in China falls 0,2% in February; pork prices drop 14,9% year on year

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, fell 0.2% in February from a year earlier, paving the way for China's steady economic recovery in the post-COVID era as the price trend kept stable, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS.
Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:05 UTC
Finland turned down Chinese Polar Institute offer to lease an Arctic airport

The city of Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland turned down an offer made in January 2018 by China’s state-funded Polar Research Institute to buy or lease the city’s airport, after it informed the Finnish Armed Forces. But the matter is only now being made public.
Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:04 UTC
British regulators fined Chinese state CGTN €260,000 for breaching UK broadcast code

British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000, a month after having revoked its license. Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel's airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.
Saturday, February 27th 2021 - 18:21 UTC
Uruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19

Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the day to begin distributing the vaccines, which will begin to be administered on Monday, March 1, to a small group of essential workers in different parts of the capital and the interior of the country.