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Five rescued and dozens missing in China building collapse

Five people have been pulled out alive and dozens are missing from a collapsed building in central China, authorities said on Saturday.

Evening Standard

Alarmed by Russia’s invasion, Europe rethinks its China ties

Russia’s war on Ukraine has triggered a profound reassessment in European capitals of their individual and collective relations with China.

Tribune News Service

Alarmed by Russia’s aggression, Europe rethinks its China ties

Russia’s war on Ukraine has triggered a profound reassessment in European capitals of their individual and collective relations with China.

Tribune News Service

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As China looks on at a world opening up, can Xi Jinping survive zero-Covid?

With 340m people living under lockdown or restrictions, the administration are sticking to their stance. But at what cost?

The Guardian - UK

Nicholas Goldberg: Is democracy failing? Xi Jinping says it is, and he's not entirely wrong

President Joe Biden likes to say that we are locked in a global battle pitting democracy against autocracy.

Los Angeles Times

Political stakes high as Beijing responds to virus outbreak

Beijing is starting to resemble other Chinese cities grappling with the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus

The Independent UK

China pledges more economic support as lockdowns stymie growth

Top decision-making body pledges package of measures to help industries and small firms affected by the pandemic.

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Covid-19: China confronts dilemma of lockdown in Beijing as cases hit record high

Chinese authorities are seriously considering imposing a lockdown in Beijing as confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country's capital topped 100 on Wednesday. But after a much-criticised month-long lockdown in Shanghai, such an option could have a very high economic and political cost.

France 24

Once bound by trade, China-EU honeymoon sours over Ukraine war

China’s support for Russia has forced the bloc to reassess relationship that has long been centred on economics.

Al Jazeera

China's Hainan free-trade port tipped to deepen Asean ties

HONG KONG: Hainan's transformation into a free-trade port will open new doors for trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), but its success will require a leap of faith and pioneering spirit, experts said.

Bangkok Post

China’s Capital in Race to Detect COVID Cases, Avoid Shanghai’s Distress

Millions of people in Beijing took their second COVID-19 tests of the week on Wednesday as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak numbering in the dozens from spiraling into a crisis like the one the locked-down city of Shanghai is enduring. Evidence that Shanghai's month-long isolation has become…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Beijing braces for COVID lockdown with mass testing and panic buying

One woman bought enough food for three months.

Axios

Xinjiang: UN team in China ahead of visit by human rights chief

Michelle Bachelet due to visit Uyghur region in May after United Nations long pushed China for ‘unfettered, meaningful’ access

The Guardian - AU

America’s lopsided China strategy: all guns and no butter

Facing criticism that its approach focuses too much on defence, the administration is preparing an economic plan for the Indo-Pacific

Financial Times

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Tribune News Service

Xi puts ideology before economy with market-busting lockdowns

China’s worst equity selloff since early 2020 reflects a growing concern about President Xi Jinping: He can’t afford the political costs of shifting from a COVID Zero strategy that is pummeling the economy.

Al Jazeera

‘Pearl lost its shine’: Shanghai expats eye exit over COVID rules

Outrage over draconian lockdowns is raising questions about city’s status as a global business hub.

The Hindu

A ‘drop the pin’ event in Chinese politics

There could be headwinds as the CPC prepares for its 20th Congress in autumn and tracks the ‘China Dream’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Ukraine and Taiwan: looking for lessons

Editorial: The Russian invasion – and resistance to it – are prompting reassessment in Beijing and Washington as well as in Taipei

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Salon

Sanctions won't stop Putin — this might

All along, Putin has counted on the fact that Europe needs Russian gas. But that's also his Achilles heel

The Independent UK

China promotes coal in setback for efforts to cut emissions

China is promoting coal-fired power as the ruling Communist Party tries to revive a sluggish economy, prompting warnings that Beijing is setting back efforts to cut climate-changing carbon emissions from the biggest global source

The Times of India

India has own problems, China fears Quad: Biden

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has said that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping once told him that he was strengthening Quad against China. China, which has territorial disputes with many countries in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, has been vehemently opposing the Quad alliance since its formation.

Al Jazeera

Beijing quiet as North Korea turns up the heat with missile tests

Beijing is North Korea’s only ally, but domestic challenges and global power politics may keep it from acting.

ABC News

When Xi Jinping came to power, he had three football dreams for China. Here's why he failed

After billions of dollars and a decade-long project to make football an obsession in China, the men's national team still struggles on the pitch. What went wrong?

ABC News

China President Xi Jinping proposes 'global security initiative'

It is the first time China has argued for "indivisible security" — a concept that means no state should strengthen its security at the expense of another nation — outside the context of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: UN chief to meet Putin in Moscow

Ukraine news from April 22: Guterres will meet Russian President Putin on Tuesday to press for fighting to stop.

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