China’s customs chief Yu Jianhua, who helped China fight its trade war with the US during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, has died suddenly aged 63. Yu was suddenly taken ill on Tuesday and died despite receiving emergency treatment, the customs office said in a statement. He had made his last public…
Yu Yanhong, director of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said the international collaboration would focus on acupuncture research, herbal medicine studies, and evidence-based research in traditional medicine. “The plan is to train 1,300 professionals in the first batch over the next three years,” she said, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday. “The initiative…
China’s far west region of Xinjiang is seeking closer ties and cross-border cooperation with Pakistan and Central Asian countries in a bid to counter US sanctions and consolidate its role as a gateway under the Belt and Road Initiative. Khunjerab port – the sole border crossing connecting China and Pakistan – in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous…
China is keen to expand energy cooperation with Turkmenistan, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday. Wang met his counterpart Rashid Meredov, who is also Turkmenistan’s vice-president, on the sidelines of the China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Chengdu, state news agency Xinhua reported. Wang also said China was willing to further expand the scale…
Russian leader Vladimir Putin says he thinks Donald Trump can end the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump, per Putin, is a “smart and experienced person” and can “come up with a solution.” Putin previously said that he preferred a second Biden term because Joe Biden is “more experienced.” Russian President Vladimir Putin believes President-elect Donald Trump will…
Russian President Vladimir Putin was trolled with an image of a Ukrainian flag on a digital billboard while visiting Kazakhstan, according to the Russian news outlet Meduza. A criminal case has been launched in Kazakhstan, which shares a 7,500-kilometer border with Russia, after the Ukrainian flag was shown on a screen near the opera house…
The annual summit of the Brics group of nations welcomed five new full members last week, doubling membership to 10. It underlined the growing challenge to the Western-led world order from emerging nations, with 13 more invited to become “partner countries”, and Russian President Vladimir Putin revealing that more than 30 others had expressed an…
BEIJING, Oct. 27, 2024 /CNW/ — “Opportunities in China“at the Digital Trade Expo offers a detailed exploration of the Third Global Digital Trade Expo, through the perspectives of a journalist from Kazakhstan, a promoter of Sino-African friendship from Zimbabwe, a second-generation entrepreneur from Thailand, and a Ph.D. researcher in the new media music industry from…
A pump jack in Midland, Texas, US, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Anthony Prieto | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil prices pared gains in early trade on Monday after charting their biggest weekly rise in over a year on Friday amid mounting threats of a region-wide war in the Middle East. Brent crude futures fell 43 cents,…