Category: china
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China’s UnionPay to follow US sanctions and block Russian banks
Russia planned to start issuing UnionPay cards after Visa and Mastercard disconnected its banking sector, rendering Russian-issued debit and credit cards useless outside the country. UnionPay is unwilling to cooperate with a number of large Russian banks because of the risk of secondary sanctions, RBC learned. Sanctioned banks that issued such cards or planned to…
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Don’t support Taiwan’s independence, China tells US
A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Friday prompted the U.S. government to fulfill its commitment to not support “Taiwan independence” with real actions in place of saying one thing and doing another. For some time now, the U.S. administration and Congress have been making these provocations on the Taiwan question and increasingly playing the “Taiwan card,”…
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Chinese ‘cartels’ are operating in Mexico, aiding US drug crisis
The drug crisis in the US that have been also aided by China. For years, China has been the source of fentanyl trafficked into the United States. It is a powerful prescription drug for major pain that’s made and sold unlawfully. It resulted in over 37,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2019, part of…
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China doesn’t want to see any more border clashes with India – Chinese Foreign Ministry
Beijing said on Wednesday it does not want to see any more clashes occurring on the border with India following a fight on Monday that killed at least 20 Indian soldiers and at least 35 Chinese soldiers. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian again said that China is not to be blamed for the clash and…
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35 Chinese soldiers killed in India-China clashes, Beijing ‘humiliated by casualty’: US intelligence report
Ladakh US News and World Report, published a piece by Paul D Shinkman which cited US intel to claim that China’s death count could be up to 35 Chinese troops after clashes between India and China at Galwan Valley during the night of June 15-16. Shinkman wrote in the usnews.com article: “American intelligence believes 35 Chinese…
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Report: 20 Indian and 43 Chinese troops dead in violent Ladakh clash
At least 20 Indian Army personnel died in the violent clash with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley last night, government sources informed news agency ANI, amid fears that casualty figures could increase even higher. Talking to news agency ANI, government sources said, “At least 20 Indian soldiers killed in the…
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China have over 640,000 coronavirus cases instead of 82,941, leaked data shows
China has intentionally refused to acknowledge hundreds of thousands more cases of coronavirus, new data leaked from China’s military-run university suggests. Officially, the country has reported only 82,941 cases of the virus and there has been widespread criticism over credibility of figure amid a lack of transparency from the government. A database leaked from the National University of…
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U.S. investigating if coronavirus came from Wuhan lab, says Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US government is attempting to figure out if the coronavirus came from a lab in Wuhan, China, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Beijing “needs to come clean” regarding what they know. The source of the virus remains is still disputed. General Mark Milley, chairman…