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China’s prosperity vision offers Africa a new growth platform

Published: February 17,2022 By David Monyae UPeople pass by a model of a tiger in Shanghai, China. The Chinese lunar new year, or Spring Festival, fell on Tuesday and heralds the start of the Year of the Tiger. Picture: EPA-EFE China is embarking on a new path. Having eradicated the scourge of …

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Technology the big winner at Winter Olympics

Published: February 17,2022 By MA SI  Staff members at the National Stadium in Beijing are attracted by a robot powered by artificial intelligence that cleans and disinfects Olympic venues. Photo provided to CHINA DAILY Digitalization showcased as new standards set for the future An icy river in Beijing was the …

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Beijing 2022: U.S. athletes are safer from COVID-19 in China than at home.

Published: February15,2022 By Staff Writer  Organizing and holding Beijing 2022 winter Olympic Games during COVID-19 pandemic was not an easy job for China, regarding the safety of players from all over the world from contamination of the COVID-19 virus.  U.S administration on a number of occasions pointed accusing fingers at …

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WHO resumes airlifting critical medical supplies to Ethiopia’s Tigray

Published: February 14,2022 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus. By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Ethiopia Correspondent Nation Media Group The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday began airlifting 33.5 metric tons of essential medicines, medical supplies and equipment to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray State. According to a statement by WHO office in Addis Ababa, a first round of …

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Outcompeting US isn’t on China’s agenda. Improving its people’s livelihood is

Published: February 13,2022 By Dennis Meng Illustration: SHI YU/CHINA DAILY The epic war (431 to 405 BCE) between Athens and Sparta, chronicled by Athenian historian Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War, was as inevitable as it was atrocious. The two sides were at daggers drawn for decades prior to the …

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France, ECOWAS: The Blind Leading the Deaf in Mali’s Troubled Transition

Published: February 13,2022 By Lionel Manzi Gone are the days when the west celebrated the wave of coups that were propelled by mass protests – dubbed “the Arab Spring” – on the streets of Tunis, Cairo and Khartoum. Then, the protests were targeting what many in the west considered “authoritarian regimes,” and, …

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Traditional Chinese culture inspires Winter Olympics torch design

Published: February 12,2022 Torch bearer Yang Yang (L) hands over the flame to the torch bearer Su Bingtian during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at the National Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 4, 2022. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge) As audiences across the globe watch the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the Beijing …

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Africa moving toward control of COVID-19 says WHO director

Published: February 12,2022 Africa is moving to the “control phase” of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased vaccination rates will be crucial in helping the continent live with the disease, the World Health Organization’s Africa director Matshidiso Moeti said Thursday. “Although COVID-19 will be with us for the long term, there is light at …

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Beijing 2022: Moment to embrace peace and friendship.

Published: February 10,2022 By Gerald Mbanda Chinese and United States players after their curling mixed doubles round robin game of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at National Aquatics Center in Beijing, Feb. 5, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang) It was a tight competition between Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi from China playing against Christopher Plysand Vicky Persinger of the United …

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China urges U.S. to revoke plan of $100-million arms sale to Taiwan region

Published: February 10,2022 China on Tuesday urged the United States to revoke a plan of arms sale worth $100 million to China’s Taiwan region, and vowed to resolutely safeguard its sovereignty and security interests. Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, urged the U.S. to immediately stop arms sales to Taiwan …

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