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An overload of tourists and an overwhelmed Thai healthcare system are issues to monitor next year after China fully reopens, with up to 500,000 tourists projected to start travelling during Chinese New Year.

Bangkok Post

Taiwan extends mandatory military service amid China tension

Taiwan announced it is extending its compulsory military service to one year from the current four months, a signal to Beijing and Washington it is serious about defending itself.

Tribune News Service

As COVID-hit China opens up to travel, others secure their doors

Japan joined India Tuesday in imposing restrictions on Chinese visitors as Beijing relaxed its norms for travellers.

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Taiwan Extends Compulsory Military Service to 1 Year

Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from four months to a year starting in 2024, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday, as the self-ruled island faces China's military, diplomatic and trade pressure. Taiwan, which split from the mainland in 1949 during a civil war, is claimed by China. The decades-old…

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Doctors struggling in fight against China Covid wave as people PAID to have vaccine

China abruptly dropped many of its pandemic restrictions earlier this month, sparking widespread outbreaks that have swamped A&Es and funeral homes

Daily Mirror

No immediate surge of Chinese tourists expected after re-opening

China's relaxation of COVID-19 rules for international arrivals has raised hopes that its multi-billion dollar travel business will soon flourish again but countries longing for the return of Chinese tourists will likely face more of a wait.

Reuters

Joy in China as mandatory Covid quarantine for inbound travellers set to end

In a snap move late Monday, China said from January 8 inbound travellers would no longer be required to quarantine on arrival in a further unwinding of hardline Covid-19 controls that had torpedoed the country's economy and sparked nationwide protests.

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US blasts China’s military drills near Taiwan as ‘provocative’

The Biden administration criticized Beijing’s military drills near Taiwan this week as “provocative,” insisting it will continue helping the government in Taipei defend itself.

Tribune News Service

Chinese make travel plans as Beijing dismantles zero-COVID rules

Chinese people, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by stringent COVID-19 curbs, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening next month, even as rising infections strained the health system and roiled the economy.

Reuters

Xi urges steps to 'protect' lives as China relaxes Covid rules

China said Monday it would scrap mandatory quarantine on arrival, further unwinding years of strict virus controls as the country battles a surge in cases.

France 24

Concern grows as China stops announcing COVID cases

BEIJING -- The Chinese government announced Sunday that it will stop announcing new COVID-19 cases, which it had been doing every day thus far.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

China holds biggest military drill near Taiwan since Pelosi trip

China sent 71 warplanes near Taiwan as a part of its biggest display of military might since US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the democratically run island, with Taipei accusing Beijing of “military intimidation”.

Bangkok Post

Taiwan Reports China's Largest Incursion Yet to Air Defense Zone

Seventy-one Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets and drones entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours, the island's government said on Monday, the largest reported incursion to date. Of the aircraft, 43 also crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line, an unofficial buffer between the two…

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'The ICU is full': medical staff on frontline of China's COVID fight say hospitals are 'overwhelmed'

In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this.

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Al Jazeera

China ‘sends record number of fighter jets’ toward Taiwan

China sends 71 planes and seven ships towards Taiwan in display of force over US defence support for self-ruled island.

Bangkok Post

China to scrap Covid quarantine rule for inbound travellers

BEIJING: China will stop requiring inbound travellers to go into quarantine starting from Jan 8, the National Health Commission said on Monday in a major step towards easing curbs on its borders, which have been largely shut since 2020.

Axios

Chinese military sends 71 planes near to Taiwan and blames U.S. for "provocation"

Beijing slammed the U.S. for passing a defense spending bill that included provisions for Taiwan.

Reuters

Beijing, Shanghai residents back to work as China limps towards living with COVID

Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday as China's two biggest cities edged closer to living with COVID-19 even as frontline medical workers scrambled to cope with millions of new infections.

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Reuters

Taiwan reports China's largest incursion yet to air defence zone

Seventy-one Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets and drones entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone in the past 24 hours, the island's government said on Monday, the largest reported incursion to date.

Al Jazeera

China to stop publishing daily COVID figures of cases, deaths

The decision by the NHC to scrap the daily virus count comes as COVID cases surge across multiple Chinese cities.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Stages ‘Strike Drills’ around Taiwan, Citing Provocation

China's military said it had conducted "strike drills" in the sea and airspace around Taiwan on Sunday in response to unspecified "provocation" from the democratically-governed island and the United States. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained of repeated Chinese military activity nearby over the past three…

The Times of India

China stands ready to work with India: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi

BEIJING: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, on Sunday, said that China is ready to work with India through steady and sound growth of the relations, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry website.

Bangkok Post

Mid-January reopening of HK-China border planned

Hong Kong is aiming to reopen its border with China by mid-January, city leader John Lee announced on Saturday after returning from meetings in Beijing.

Reuters

Hong Kong aims for mid-January reopening of border with mainland China

Hong Kong will reopen its borders with mainland China by mid-January, city Chief Executive John Lee said on Saturday, as Beijing accelerates the unwinding of stringent COVID-19 rules that have battered economic growth.

The Independent UK

Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns

As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed

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