Day: June 21, 2023

Shanghai media reports on Thursday said the victims included high school students and the elderly. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for “all-out efforts” in treating the injured. He also urged investigators to establish the cause of the incident and for those responsible to be punished. Advertisement At noon on Thursday, state news agency Xinhua reported that nine people, including the restaurant’s owner, shareholders and staff, had been detained by Ningxia police, and its assets frozen. According to the Yinchuan government’s official WeChat account, the explosion happened as the chef…

China’s population since 1949 Evolution of the populationfigures since 1949 China’s population shrinks China recorded its first population drop in six decades in 2022, and in 2023, it is reported to have lost the title of “world’s most populous country” to India. By 2050, China’s population is expected to fall to around 1.32 billion, while India’s will have hit 1.67 billion, according to the United Nations. Since the 1990s, China’s fertility rate (total number of children that would be born to each woman) has fallen below the replacement level of…

That ominously brought to mind a scene in Anchorage, Alaska, in March 2021. Yang Jiechi, then China’s top diplomat, responded to Blinken’s similarly expressed views by insisting that “the US does not have the qualification to say to China it wants to speak to China from a position of strength”. 02:23 Gloves off at top-level US-China summit in Alaska with on-camera sparring Adding to efforts to dampen expectations was a phone call between Blinken and his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang. According to Chinese sources, Qin “made clear China’s solemn position…

The legislation was announced earlier this month by bipartisan leaders in the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee. Representative Jason Smith, the sponsor of the House bill and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said Wednesday: “The relationship between the United States and Taiwan is vital to US interest in the Indo-Pacific.” Advertisement “This initial trade agreement negotiated by the Biden administration is a good step…it shows the world the Chinese Communist Party will not intimidate the United States from deepening our relationship with Taiwan,”…

For example, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission – a US government advisory body – said in a report published this year that China’s “core objective appears to be the degradation of US-led alliances and partnerships under the guise of a set of principles that are full of platitudes empty on substantive steps for contributing to global peace”. “China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasing economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do so,” Waters said. “Beijing’s blueprint would move…