At least three Chinese vaccines have been approved for emergency use, while phase 3 clinical trials are ongoing.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel, connected via video with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hold a news conference after a virtual summit with China’s President in Brussels on September 14, 2020.
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The October launch of the “EU-US Dialogue on China” shows that the two shores of the Atlantic have come to recognise the importance of coordination and cooperation when facing up to Xi Jinping.
China’s attacks on Australia may seem over the top, but they are meant to achieve specific goals — playing to a nationalist domestic audience and making an example of Australia to the world.
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Beijing, 2019.
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The Chinese embassy has suggested the Morrison government might be trying to “stoke domestic nationalism” in its denunciation of an offensive Chinese tweet.
Chinese interference in Hong Kong’s political and legal affairs is creating uncertainty about the future of the territory as an independent business centre.
Hong Kong pan-democracy legislators speak top reporters after resigning from the Legislative Council on November 12 2020.
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China’s signature foreign policy is controversial for lots of reasons. But the environmental damage potentially wrought by the project has received scant attention.
Could China become the world leader in electric vehicles?
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Twenty years after the first China-Africa forum, the perceptions of ordinary African citizens still need to be better considered in government-to-government interactions.
Douglas fir, a valuable commercial timber, dominates the Oregon coastal forest.
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Wood, a major export of the US, has taken a hit from international tariffs compounded by COVID-19.
On October 22, the French junior minister for digital transition and electronic communication, Cedric O, and the French prime minister, Jean Castex (rear) announcing the changeover of several departments to ‘maximum alert’, new curfew measures, and the new app ‘Tous Anti Covid’.
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In the current pandemic, finding the right balance between the protection of public health and respecting civil liberties has proven to be supremely difficult.
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers resign en masse in protest at the dismissal of four of their colleagues.
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