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British Museum Receives Record £1bn Chinese Ceramics Donation

This is Beirut, 2024-11-15 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The British Museum has received a historic £1 billion ($1.27 billion) donation of Chinese ceramics, the largest for any UK institution. This 1,700-piece private collection was gifted by The Trustees of The Sir Percival David Foundation, with the announcement made late Wednesday. Sir Percival David, a British businessman and passionate Sinophile ...

China Tests Building Moon Base With Lunar Soil Bricks

This is Beirut, 2024-11-15 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station's bricks could be made from the Moon's own soil. Brick samples will blast off aboard a cargo rocket heading for China's Tiangong space station, part of Beijing's mission to put humans on the Moon by ...

China's Xi Arrives in Peru for APEC Summit, Biden Meeting

This is Beirut, 2024-11-15 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Peru Thursday for an Asia-Pacific summit where he will meet US counterpart Joe Biden under the shadow of a looming trade war with the incoming Donald Trump administration. Xi arrived at an air base outside the capital Lima hours before the expected touchdown of Biden on the eve of a two-day heads-of-state ...

Biden and Xi Set to Meet in Peru on Saturday

This is Beirut, 2024-11-13 20:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Saturday at the APEC summit in Peru, in what will likely be their last encounter before Donald Trump returns to the White House, US officials said. The meeting will be the third between the leaders of the world's two biggest economies and their second since a major ice-breaking set ...

Bitcoin Breaks Records as Asian Markets Slump in Trump Era

This is Beirut, 2024-11-11 10:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Most Asian markets fell Monday after China's keenly awaited plans to support the world's number two economy fell short of expectations, while traders were also keeping tabs on Washington as Donald Trump puts his cabinet together after last week's election win. Stocks rallied last week on hopes that a second Trump administration - supported by a ...

Three Chinese Astronauts Begin Mission to Tiangong Space Station

This is Beirut, 2024-10-30 10:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Three Chinese astronauts, including the country's only woman spaceflight engineer, entered the Tiangong space station on Wednesday following an early morning launch into orbit. The Shenzhou-19 mission took off with its trio of space explorers at 4:27 am (2027 GMT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Xinhua and ...

China Deployed Fighter Jets and Warship Around Taiwan in "Warning"

This is Beirut, 2024-10-14 12:52 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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China deployed fighter jets and warships to encircle Taiwan on Monday, in drills Beijing said were aimed at sending a "stern warning" to "separatist" forces on the self-ruled island. Beijing has not ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control and Monday's drills represent its fourth round of large-scale war games in the past two ...

New Collision Between Chinese and Philippine Ships

This Is Beirut, 2024-08-31 13:03 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Beijing accused a Philippine ship of deliberately running into a Chinese coast guard vessel on Saturday near a flashpoint shoal in the South China Sea, the latest in a spate of similar incidents in recent weeks. China claims almost all of the economically vital waterway despite competing claims from other countries and an international court ...

China Watches as Washington Gets Entangled in the Middle East

Rami Rayess, 2024-02-28 08:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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China’s success in mediating a political solution for bridging the divide between Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was perceived by some as a ‘historic’ move. They viewed this achievement as a significant shift in Chinese foreign policy towards the Middle East, given that the influential Asian nation, with its veto power as one of the ...

Trump or Biden, the US Economic War on China Will Continue

This Is Beirut, 2024-02-25 10:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In a shift from tit-for-tat tariffs and strong-arm tactics to tech restrictions and investment curbs, US policy towards China has become more targeted under President Joe Biden -- though still hardliner. Despite differences between Democrats and Republicans, analysts expect Washington's approach to Beijing will only become tougher, whether Biden ...

New EU Sanctions Against China, N. Korea Amidst War on Ukraine

This Is Beirut, 2024-02-21 15:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The EU on Wednesday agreed to ban exports to three mainland Chinese firms and blacklist North Korea's defense minister in new sanctions for the second anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine, officials said. The fresh round of measures -- the 13th since Russian President Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion -- overall targets some two hundred ...

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