Tag: China

• Tuesday, November 24th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  China's appetite for imported pork slowing as the country recovers its herd

  

  China is starting to curb its appetite for imported pork as it regains its domestic stock and domestic meat prices are beginning to fall. Added to this are consumer concerns about the presence of Covid-19 on food packaging that arrives from other countries.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 18:25 UTC

  Chinese submersible exploring the Mariana Trench, the deepest valley on the planet

  

  China live-streamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench on Friday, part of a historic mission into the deepest underwater valley on the planet.

• Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Shanghai: All frozen foods imports qualified as “high risk” should be tested for coronavirus

  

  The Chinese city of Shanghai has said that all imports of what it qualified as “high risk” frozen foods should be tested for coronavirus and have packaging disinfected before being stored or sold locally.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Chinese journalist who covered Wuhan's virus outbreak face five years of jail

  

  A Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan's virus outbreak is facing up to five years in jail, according to newly released documents. Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, has been held in detention since she was arrested in May.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Argentina meat industry plans investments to increase exports 33% in three years

  

  Argentine meat processing plants will invest US$ 187 million in a bid to increase exports from the country by 33% over three years to 1.2 million tons per year, the head of a local trade group said on Monday during a conference with government officials.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  US and China must find basis of cooperation, or risk sliding to “a catastrophe”, warns Kissinger

  

  The United States and China must find some basis for cooperation or risk sliding into a catastrophe “comparable to World War I”, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said at a global forum on Monday, delivering a stark warning on the state of ties between the two superpowers.

• Monday, November 16th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  China claims it found coronavirus on beef and tripe from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and New Zealand

  

  The eastern Chinese city of Jinan said it has found the new coronavirus on beef and tripe, and on packaging for these products from Brazil, New Zealand and Bolivia as China ramps up testing on frozen foods.

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  China congratulates Biden and Kamala on winning the November 3 election

  

  China finally congratulated Mr. Joe Biden and Ms. Kamala Harris on winning the November 3 US presidential election ending days of speculation about when Beijing would formally acknowledge the victory.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Beijing's message to Biden, “Drop illusions over China-US relations, but don’t give up efforts”

  

  Even when the Chinese government and chairman Xi Jinping have still to congratulate president elect Joe Biden on his victory, Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party English language newspaper published on Sunday a set of suggestions and warnings on the future relations with a new US Democrat administration in Washington, but also ”popping some of the bubble’s from the rough times with president Trump.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Taiwan “locked out” of WHO Covid-19 meeting on objections from Beijing

  

  Taiwan is yet to receive an invite to a key World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this week expected to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic due to “obstruction” from China, the island's foreign ministry said, expressing its displeasure.