The Latest Breaking News from China

US Says Nuclear Deal Possible Within Days If Iran 'Shows Seriousness'

The United States said Thursday that "substantial progress" during negotiations in Vienna to save the Iran nuclear deal had been made, deeming an agreement possible within days if Iran "shows seriousness" on the matter. The Vienna talks, which involve Iran as well as Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 18, 2022

Opinion: China Has Approved Pfizer’s Covid Drug. What’s Next?

The government now needs to place an order and set a delivery schedule, given the limited supply

Caixin Global · Feb 18, 2022

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.66% on Friday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 0.27%

Caixin Global · Feb 18, 2022

China’s Eileen Gu wins gold in women’s freestyle halfpipe

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — When some competitors barely cleared the top of the halfpipe on late-run tricks, Chinese star Eileen Gu continued to soar. Camera operators bent backward to track the teenager’s motion through the air as she spun off the wall of the halfpipe, climbing higher and higher just as…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 18, 2022

Hong Kong 'cannot afford to lose' fight against surging COVID

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday that it would take up to three months to stabilise a worsening COVID-19 pandemic that has overwhelmed health facilities and forced the postponement of an upcoming leadership election.

Reuters · Feb 18, 2022

China tries to quell ‘chained mother’ scandal marring Olympics

China is stepping up efforts to ease broad public anger over a mother of eight children who was found chained by the neck in a shack after local authorities were accused of downplaying the matter.

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2022

Ford Partners With Tesla Co-founder's EV Battery Recycling Venture Program In California

Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F) and China’s Geely Automobile-owned Volvo Cars (OTC: VLVLY) have partnered with Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) co-

Benzinga · Feb 18, 2022

What If Russia Wins?

A Kremlin-Controlled Ukraine Would Transform Europe

Foreign Affairs · Feb 18, 2022

Beijing Winter Olympics official says stories of Chinese human rights abuses are 'lies'

An International Olympic Committee spokesman bats away several sensitive questions regarding human rights, Xinjiang labour camps, Taiwan and Hong Kong – but his counterpart on the Beijing Organising Committee is far more hawkish.

ABC News · Feb 17, 2022

The verdict is in: Trump was wrong about China

For those who say Trump put us on the right track vis-a-vis China, which parts should we continue: High taxes? Lack of exports? Farm subsidies? Moral abdication? Under his leadership, the U.S. trade deficit was the largest in a decade.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 17, 2022