Posts tagged China
BBC World: August 19, 2023

Live from Johannesburg ahead of the BRICS Summit, I speak to anchor Carl Nasman about the delivery of F-16 jets to Ukraine, the absence of Mr. Putin at the Summit and the situation on the ground here in South Africa.

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CNN Opinion: Omicron and the Olympics could be on a collision course with China's zero-Covid strategy

Can Chinese officials -- who initially kept the 2003 SARS outbreak under wraps for months and have not been fully transparent about the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan -- be trusted to provide realistic case figures during the February 2022 Winter Olympics?

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CNN Opinion: Canada-China 'prisoner swap' soothes but doesn't resolve tensions

The strange and unpredictable world of geopolitics played out over the Pacific skies Friday as one commercial jet carrying the just-released daughter of one of China's most prominent tycoons flew westbound while another carrying two Canadians incarcerated in apparent retaliation for her arrest flew in the opposition direction.

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CNN Opinion: Canada has big decisions to make on China

In this geopolitical new normal, where a more assertive China ignores international norms, nothing can be taken for granted. Beijing responds to toughness, not half-hearted soft diplomacy. As such, Canada needs to bulk up its foreign policy muscle to avoid being outmaneuvered on the international diplomatic podium.

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CNN Opinion: What Could make Myanmar's Military Junta Back Off?

If the Myanmar generals get their way, the number of people living under military rule, together with those in Thailand, in that corner of Southeast Asia will almost double to about 124 million people. That is a prospect ASEAN, and the broader international community, must prevent at all costs.

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CNN Opinion: Is China the new leader on the world health stage?

The World Health Assembly (WHA) -- the biggest event on the global health agenda -- held on Monday and Tuesday this week, can be easily summed up: The Trump administration threatened to take the UN agency off life support as it fights a global pandemic -- and Chinese President Xi Jinping threw it a new life line.

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