As Africa toes the Chinese line…
Every year, China’s minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a customary odyssey across Africa.
Every year, China’s minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a customary odyssey across Africa.
Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Beijing on Wednesday.
Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri visited Beijing last week marking another step towards restoring normalcy between the two nations.
India is willing to strengthen strategic communication with China, expand mutually beneficial cooperation and inject new impetus into bilateral relations, national security Adviser Ajit Doval was quoted as saying on Wednesday during his meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing.
China’s ruling Communist Party claims the self governing democracy of Taiwan as its own territory despite never having controlled it, and has not ruled out taking the island by force.
No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.
On Friday, six new imported cases were also reported -- two in Shanghai and one each in the provinces of Zhejiang, Shandong, Hubei and Guangdong.
The data, released through the Novel Coronavirus National Science and Technology Resource Service System came from both COVID-19 case samples and environmental samples.
As relations between Washington and Beijing remain tense, the US has moved to end preferential treatment for Hong Kong over what it sees as an erosion of its autonomy and freedoms.
Pompeo hoped that China complies with the first part of the Phase One trade deal.
