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On June 8-9, Chinese leader Xi Jinping traveled to North Korea for his first overseas trip of 2026, drawing renewed attention to the evolving dynamics among Beijing, Pyongyang, and Moscow. The visit came less than a month after Xi met with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin's
50,000 People Held Under Lockdown At South China Venue as COVID Rampages
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4.1 Earthquake Strikes Pandemic-stricken Hong Kong
News Analysis Over 8,000 Hong Kong residents reported feeling an earthquake in the early morning hours...
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Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces began on Feb. 24, Wang Jixian, a Chinese programmer living...
Hong Kong Authorities Announce New COVID Preventive Measures as Cases and Deaths Rise
As the number of infected people continued to increase in the past week, Hong Kong authorities set up...
Hong Kong Hospitals Placing Body Bags Under Patients’ Beds as COVID-19 Surges Out of Control
There are no funeral ceremonies for some of the hundreds of Hong Kong residents dying everyday due to...
Xi Warns About Food Security at ‘Two Sessions’ Meetings: ‘China can’t be complacent’
War in Ukraine, bad harvests threaten crisis for the world's largest country by population At the...