BEIJING (AP) – China launched its most ambitious mission on Mars on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet. Tianwen-1 was launched on a Long March-5 carrier rocket from Hainan Island, a tourist province on the south coast …
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WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed his willingness to work with China or other countries to bring a successful coronavirus vaccine to the United States, despite mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington. “We are ready to work with anyone who gives us a good result,” Trump said, …
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The editor-in-chief of The Global Times, a state-funded newspaper in China, asked Monday whether the United States is “mentally retarded” in rejecting Beijing’s extensive territorial claims in the South China Sea, a region with disputes over long standing between China and other Southeast Asian countries. In a retweet of an …
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WASHINGTON – The United States on Monday rejected China’s controversial claims to offshore resources in most of the South China Sea, a move Beijing criticized for inciting tensions in the region and highlighting an increasingly irritable relationship. China has failed to offer a coherent legal basis for its ambitions in …
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BEIJING (AP) – While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, and local health authorities have announced a suspected case of bubonic plague in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Bayannur District authorities lifted the plague warning on Sunday, ordering residents not to hunt …
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