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China opposes Blinken's remarks on Tiananmen massacre, calls it 'political
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 4 (ANI): China on Friday opposed remarks made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and termed the widespread crackdown as a "political turmoil".
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Amid human rights abuses by China, Australia's Uyghurs in despair over dis
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], June 4 (ANI): As Beijing continues its human rights abuses against ethnic minority communities in Xinjiang, Uyghurs living in Australia are left in despair over the 'disappearance' of their relatives in China.
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China revises upward population data for 10 years due to 'error in samplin
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 4 (ANI): The National Bureau of Statistics of China has revised its figures for ten years to note that the country's population surpassed 1.4 billion in 2017, two years earlier than previously thought, due to an 'error in sampling for 2011 through 2019' in the recently
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9 killed after train rams into railway workers in China's Gansu province
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 4 (ANI): Nine people were killed after a passenger train hit a group of railway workers in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu on Friday.
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Washington bars US investors from 59 Chinese companies as national securit
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], June 4 (ANI): US President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday (local time) banned American investors from investing in 59 defence and surveillance technology Chinese companies to stop US capital from being used by Beijing to undermine national security.
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China's urgent goal is to expand nuclear arsenal to prepare for possible '
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 3 (ANI): China's urgent goal is to expand its arsenal of long-range nuclear missiles in anticipation of an "intense showdown" with the US, Chinese state media said.
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China says military flight over waters off Malaysia was 'routine training'
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 3 (ANI): China has said that it has conveyed to Malaysia that a flight of 16 Chinese military planes over hotly contested waters in the South China Sea was a "routine training" and does not target any country.
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Xi Jinping's idea of 'lovable' China raises eyebrows
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 3 (ANI): After years of China's growing aggressiveness towards other countries through warnings and insults, President Xi Jinping said that officials should create a lovable and respectable image of the country, which has raised more than a few skeptical eyebrows among
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Hong Kong's Tiananmen Massacre museum shuts over licensing probe
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, June 2 (ANI): Ahead of its 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, Hong Kong's June 4th Museum that commemorates China's deadly crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing has been temporarily closed.
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China, Afghanistan, Pakistan to discuss Afghan peace process
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 2 (ANI): Amid the drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan, the foreign ministers of China, Afghanistan and Pakistan will discuss the Afghan peace process during a trilateral dialogue on Thursday.
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US diplomat flags concerns about China's military presence during Cambodia
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], June 2 (ANI): A US senior diplomat has flagged Washington's "serious concerns" about China's "military presence" at a naval base undergoing Beijing-backed expansion on Cambodia's coast and sought clarification on the demolition of US-funded buildings in the area.
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China not scrapping birth caps entirely due to strictly enforced family pl
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, June 2 (ANI): Bucking the trend, China has announced this week that it will allow couples to have three children in a bid to boost its population, but some experts are questioning over why Beijing did not scrap birth caps entirely? The reason might be Xinjiang.
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