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China’s Agriculture and Finance Ministries issued a joint notice on Friday urging farmers to maximize China’s spring plowing season of wheat and soybeans from early April in an effort to alleviate an expected global food supply shortage caused by Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a meeting with his Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, on Friday that reportedly lasted three hours and featured extensive Indian complaints about China’s repeated illegal incursions across the Indian border.

Two former content moderators for the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok have reportedly sued the company alleging that it failed to adequately support them after they suffered “psychological trauma” while doing their job.

The United Kingdom has warned Communist China it will face sanctions if they send weapons to Russia to aid in the invasion of Ukraine.

Australian mining company Arafura Resources said on Wednesday that an enormous deposit of rare earth minerals discovered in central Australia, developed with the aid of a $30 million grant from the federal government, could help to significantly weaken Communist China’s stranglehold on the rare-earths supply – a class of minerals vitally important to “green energy” projects around the world.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that China supports “Islamic countries using Islamic wisdom to solve contemporary hotspot issues” during a meeting in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad on Thursday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday to meet with senior Taliban officials, a sign of approval that Taliban leaders expressed hope would yield significant economic benefits to them.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday celebrated the end of Chinese telecom giant ZTE’s probation in the United States as an “inspiring” victory for Chinese Communism against the American legal system, and urged more Chinese companies to take advantage of those mercurial U.S. courts to wage lawfare against American trade policy.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry allegedly told his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday Cairo “opposes some countries for putting pressure on China over [the] Ukraine issue,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.

The Singapore government announced Thursday from April 1st it will no longer require mandatory quarantines for vaccinated travellers – providing they have a negative coronavirus test – on arrival.

Celebrity Doctor Mehmet Oz, who is running as a tough-on-China candidate, is coming under fire for his long history with the communist country in the race to fill Pennsylvania’s Senate seat.

Twenty North Korean women working for a clothing company in Shanghai vanished from their dormitory along with their manager in February, a potentially awkward case kept very quiet by both Chinese and North Korean officials until Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported it on Wednesday.

Chinese crash site investigators said on Wednesday that one of the “black box” flight recorders from China Eastern Flight MU5735 has been found, and is “relatively intact.” The search for a second black box continues, hampered by heavy rain in the area. Chinese state media continues to provide few serious details about the crash, beyond confirming on Tuesday that none of the 132 passengers or crew survived it.

China’s ZTE telecom corporation announced on Wednesday that its five-year probation from a 2017 plea deal for illegally shipping American technology to Iran has ended.

The Senate has voted to begin drafting a technology-funding bill with House leaders, amid elite and public concerns over China’s rapid advances.

Chinese state media on Tuesday declared victory over the coronavirus outbreak in Shenzhen, the tech hub known as “China’s Silicon Valley.” The city was subjected to severe lockdown measures over the past week, including an order that forced employees to live in their factories so the production lines could keep running.

The terrible plane crash in China’s southern Guangxi region continued as a headline news item in Chinese state media on Tuesday – but after 24 hours, no significant details about the incident have been revealed to the public. China’s aviation regulator cautioned the public that it might take years for the investigation to be completed, and little news should be expected until then. 

Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, Dmytro Kuleba, urged the Chinese Communist Party to “play an important role” in ending the country’s ongoing war with Russia in remarks on Tuesday, claiming the two countries have a relationship of “mutual respect.”

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad on Tuesday for the opening of this year’s Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting.

Search teams began combing through a remote mountainous area in southern China on Tuesday as hopes of finding survivors from the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash faded.

Turkish government authorities rejected the citizenship applications of Uyghur refugees fleeing genocide by China in occupied East Turkistan last year on the grounds they allegedly posed risks to Turkey’s “national security” or “social order,” Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.

Chinese state media on Monday insisted China’s coronavirus control measures are highly “effective” even as record numbers of infections were reported in cities like Shanghai, which shut down its Disney resort until further notice.

Chinese Communist Party authorities “punished” 11 party officials and personnel in southern China’s Guangxi autonomous region in recent days for failing to crack down on a local couple who allegedly gave birth to 15 children over a 21-year period, the state-run Global Times reported Monday.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) discussed the prospect of sanctions on China and stated, “we should be sanctioning them right now. We should be putting secondary sanctions on Chinese entities

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) discussed his push for tariffs on China if they increase their purchases of Russian agriculture, said that China has supported Russia by boosting agricultural purchases

According to a report published by the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University in Shanghai this weekend, the world’s poorest nations will pay China almost $14 billion in 2022 to service their debts. 

A recent article from the Wall Street Journal confirms much of the reporting in Peter Schweizer’s book Red-Handed, which outlines tech giant Elon Musk’s close relationship with China.

Disney’s resorts in China have been shuttered due to the country’s rising rates of the coronavirus.

U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino told the Associated Press in an interview published on Sunday that China had fully militarized three artificial islands built in the territory of the Philippines as part of “the largest military buildup since World War II.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi spent much of Sunday discussing potential Chinese investments with his counterparts from Algeria, Tanzania, and Zambia, claiming that the war between Ukraine and Russia demands even more Chinese attention on the continent of Africa.

A Chinese passenger plane with 132 people on board has crashed in a mountainous area of southern China, reports Monday indicate.

China’s Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that China was not committing human rights violations against the Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province.

One of the potential impacts of sanctions aimed at Russia for its invasion of Ukraine is a deeper reliance on China for Russia, says Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL).

On Day One of his presidency, Joe Biden shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline and banned drilling on federal land as part of his plan to save the planet from so-called climate change. But one of the “alternative energy” sources he is promoting is on the skids, and solar power advocates say they need a government bailout.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that he thinks China “believes that we need to respect the sovereignty of its own country and of other countries.” And maintained that China’s actions towards Tibet, Hong

The White House did not immediately produce a readout of the video call between President Joe Biden and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Friday morning, but the Chinese Foreign Ministry produced a detailed account of the call immediately, publishing it within the hour through Chinese state media.