The Latest Breaking News from China

As COVID-19 infections surge in China, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new variants, the agency told Reuters.

China dominates the market, and not just for EVs. Five new cars per month were revealed on average during 2022.

The US, Italy, India, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan all announced mandatory tests for passengers arriving from China, after Beijing said it is to reopen its borders next week

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed the Tourism and Sports Ministry to map out measures to handle the return of Chinese tourists as about 300,000 of them are expected to arrive in the first quarter of next year.

The USA and Italy are among several nations to impose restrictions around travellers arriving from China

Guardrails and statesmanship will be even more important this time around.

China may be reopening, allowing its 1.4 billion people to come and go largely without restrictions, but just as it is, a slew of other countries are tightening measures for travelers from the world’s second-biggest economy, concerned the tsunami of virus cases there may spawn new COVID variants.

Regimes have been using sports to burnish their images or distract from their problematic behavior for centuries.

The US has approved the sale of an anti-tank mine-laying system to Taiwan amid the rising military threat from China.