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China’s reopening has been one of the most discussed topics at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images DAVOS, Switzerland — China’s economic reopening might boost global growth, but the business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum this week are also a little …

Nearly three years after COVID-19 broke out in China, leading members of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI) and world leaders on Thursday set a new 100-day goal for a faster and equitable pandemic response. Discussing what key lessons had been …

Two human rights groups instrumental in getting the European Court of Human Rights to order Malta to halt the forcible deportation of two Muslim Chinese asylum-seekers of Uyghur ethnicity are now strategizing with lawyers about their next move. “We together with the lawyers will evaluate the rest of the procedures …

More than a billion people from around the world are about to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit. Many of those welcoming the Lunar New Year are from China, where the festival is marked by a week of public holidays. But it …

A Brooklyn judge on Thursday formally dismissed charges against NYPD Officer Baimadajie Angwang, granting prosecutors’ request last week to throw out the case upon the discovery of new information. It ended a two-year ordeal for Angwang, a U.S. Army reservist and naturalized U.S. citizen born in Tibet, who spent about …

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Everyone seems to agree: NATO countries must spend more on defense.  Just don’t ask them to put that in writing. In 2014, the military alliance tried. And it came up with a mealy-mouthed result: Each country would “aim to …

China could see as many as 36,000 deaths a day over the Lunar New Year holiday period as millions of people travel to their ancestral homes to spend time with loved ones, a U.K.-based research firm said in a computer-modeled prediction of the impact of the current COVID-19 wave sweeping …

Jacinda Ardern’s exit could create openings for both Washington and Beijing to boost their influence on Wellington By Timur Fomenko, political analyst New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she will resign in February, saying she doesn’t have “enough in the tank” to keep going, ending a six-year tenure in …

Comment on this story Comment JOHANNESBURG — Russia and China will conduct naval drills in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa next month in another indication of their strengthening relationships with Africa’s most developed country amid the war in Ukraine and global financial uncertainty. The South African …

Chinese drugmakers rushed to make anti-fever medicines and other treatments for COVID-19 on Thursday, after President Xi Jinping said he was worried about an influx of holiday travellers to rural areas ill-equipped to deal with sudden outbreaks. Those particularly vulnerable to the virus are the elderly, many of whom are …

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has held a number of live-fire drills, including a “confrontational exercise” by the Shandong aircraft carrier group, in the South China Sea as a U.S. carrier operates in the area. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement that a strike group led by the …

Comment on this story Comment Up until the last minute before China relaxed three years of severe covid restrictions, officials and state media were hailing the country’s “unswerving” commitment to a strict containment strategy and the “significant advantages of our socialist system.” That same system then witnessed a chaotic reopening, …