United States clampdown on visas for instructors at China's flagship cultural program overseas has incensed Beijing, with state media pouncing on it as an attempt by Washington to frustrate Chinese global ambitions. The crisis flared last week with a U.S. directive saying many Chinese instructors had the wrong kind of visa, though it appeared largely resolved by Thursday when U.S. officials said they were w ...
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China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissidents. "The United States' tarnished human rights record has left it in no state -- whether on a moral, political or legal basis -- to act as the world's 'human rights justice,' " China said in an annual report on U.S. human right ...
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China's Beijing, defense Ministry has accused the Pentagon of hyping Chinese military power and its threat to Taiwan in a depiction that will ultimately undermine ties between the two militaries. The annual Pentagon report to Congress on China's military always draws strenuous objections from Beijing. This year's report — which outlined a Chinese military modernization effort that is gaining momentum — come ...
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The 5th death in less than a month has raised alarms. But the World Health Organization says this is within the forecasts, and there are no signs of an epidemic. Beijing - The World Health Organization (WHO) insists that "there is no evidence" of a bird flu epidemic in China, after the fifth death from the disease in January two days ago. On January 26, at the hospital in Yulin (Guangxi, on the border with ...
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