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“China and its people will show support and confidence to WHO by this donation,” Geng Shuang, the deputy director for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the press, according to a report by the Nikkei Asian Review, a Japanese newspaper. Chinese contributions to the WHO now total $50 million for the past month. Geng also commended the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for “playing an important role in encouraging international cooperation to prevent the spread of the virus....

The White House official made it clear that such actions would “absolutely” have consequences for Beijing and explained that the U.S. is closely monitoring any and all support China is currently providing Russia. “We are communicating directly, privately to Beijing, that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them,” he said. “We will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country, anywhere in the world....

Now, Chinese miners are fleeing in droves in what has been branded the “Great Mining Migration.” And just as with the migrations of late antiquity, Chinese miners are looking to settle West. This large relocation of resources and computing power will not come without consequences. And what will it mean for Bitcoin? China’s Cryptocurrency Ban China has been working to ban cryptocurrencies for a while now. The Chinese government had already issued a series of increasingly restrictive legal prohibitions against cryptocurrencies, starting in 2009 and issuing the first Bitcoin-specific ban in 2013....

“Baidu Maps show that there are 38 Shandong dumpling restaurants and 67 Shanxi noodle restaurants in Taipei,” China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying tweeted on Sunday. “Palates don’t cheat. #Taiwan has always been a part of China. The long lost child will eventually return home,” said Hua, who has the @SpokespersonCHN handle on Twitter. Hua’s post, which has been quote-tweeted nearly 3,000 times, capped off a week of fresh tensions across the Taiwan Strait as the Chinese military launched unprecedented drills around the island in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit....

The country’s top economic planner said on Friday that the number and scale of China’s current facilities did not match its winter sports development targets. “At the moment… there is a large gap with other developed countries with winter sports,” the National Development and Reform Commission said in a document signed by other government bodies including the finance and sports ministries. Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics to widespread acclaim, but its bid for the Winter Games was dogged by concerns over issues ranging from the city’s notorious smog problem to a lack of snow - and the country’s poor record on human rights....

Han is part of a new generation of Chinese artists seeking novel and vibrant ways to make sense of their country’s economic boom. They are rejecting the political pop imagery and satirical portraits of Mao that propelled their predecessors into the global spotlight, instead choosing to present China as a pluralistic, capitalistic society. Products of the go-go generation, these twenty- and thirtysomething artists are too young to remember the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution....

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters at a daily briefing Tuesday that the president had miscalculated the situation by trying to blame Beijing, according to Reuters. Zhao also suggested that Trump was trying to blame China to avoid responsibility for his own handling of the outbreak in the U.S.—now the epicenter of the pandemic with more than 1.5 million reported infections and more than 90,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University....

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin confirmed during a press conference Wednesday in Beijing that Foreign Minister Wang Yi would head to Africa. China’s most senior diplomat was set to travel to Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania and Seychelles from January 4 through 9. “Since 1991, Africa has been the destination for the Chinese foreign minister’s first overseas visit each year,” Wang Wenbin said. “State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit this time is a continuation of this fine tradition, which demonstrates the high importance China attaches to its relationship with Africa....

The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission sent its latest annual report to Congress this week, after a year of deteriorating American-Chinese relations amid the coronavirus pandemic, human rights disputes, trade conflict and a vicious presidential campaign that framed the Chinese Communist Party as a major threat to national security. The commission said China “is engaged in a global competition for power and influence with the United States, adding that the CCP “regards the liberal democratic values championed by the United States as a fundamental impediment to its external ambitions and an existential threat to its domestic rule....

African nations owe China more than $140 billion, according to research from Johns Hopkins University, but are facing economic disaster as the response to the coronavirus pandemic forces businesses to close and people to stay at home. The World Bank warned last week that sub-Saharan Africa faces a recession for the first time in 25 years, with growth collapsing from 2.4 percent in 2019 to between -2.1 and -5.1 percent in 2020....

A user who goes by the alias ‘Detective Zhao’ released the alleged pictures and gifs that showed the two-time Olympic champion with a woman in October. Internet users quickly identified her as Zhao Yaqi, who is a model and an actress.The post was the top trending topic and had more than 200,000 reports and 40,000 comments on Weibo. Lin’s wife Xie Xingfang, who is a former badminton star herself, gave birth to their first child on November 5....

The Chinese embassy in France posted the video to its Twitter account. The video purports that the U.S., represented in the video by a Statue of Liberty figurine, did not heed warnings from the Chinese government that the novel coronavirus was dangerous. When the figurine representing China reported “strange pneumonia cases,” a logo for the World Health Organization replies, “roger that.” When China then proclaims that it has “discovered a new virus,” the U....

The Ministry of Emergency Management said as of Sunday that 48 people were rescued. The Xinjia Express Hotel in Quanzhou collapsed around 7 p.m. local time Saturday, requiring emergency workers to rescue at least 34 people who were trapped inside the large “quarantine hotel,” state media outlets reported. Licheng district authorities said about 70 people were inside either being treated or offering medical observance of potential coronavirus patients at the time of the building’s collapse....

The 21st annual Chinese New Year Parade will kick off on February 9 at 1 p.m. ET and the celebration will continue until 4:30 p.m. ET. The Lunar New Year celebration begins at Mott and Canal St and goes to Chatham Square to East Broadway towards the Manhattan Bridge, and ends on Eldridge and Forsyth Streets toward Grand Street, next to Sara D. Roosevelt Park. About 500,000 people attend New York’s Chinese New Year parade each year to enjoy dragons, floats, and seas of red and gold....

This year’s event runs through February 8, which is when the Lantern Festival is held, marking the official end of Chinese New Year celebrations. Chinese New Year festivities entail lots of colorful decorations, sometimes a parade in your local Chinatown and plenty of traditional Chinese food consumed during Chinese New Year, including “longevity noodles” called 长寿面 (cháng shòu miàn) in Chinese. These long noodles are meant to be eaten without cutting them as a symbolic way of wishing for a long life....

The rocket, a Long March 5B, launched on April 29 to place the first part of China’s Tianhe space station in orbit around the Earth. It did so successfully, but the 20-ton rocket has since remained in space and is slowly getting closer and closer to Earth. Scientists do not know exactly when or where it will return, and due to its size it is also unknown whether it will completely burn up on re-entry....

In an op-ed on Monday, China’s state-owned Global Times said, “Once the situation in the Taiwan Straits gets out of control and the mainland is determined to realize reunification by force, we will definitely be fully prepared to deal with possible intervention by US forces.” “Even if the US openly declares that it will use force in the Taiwan Straits, the Chinese mainland will never waver in its will to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” it continued....

Ajay Jayaram took on Malaysian Lee Zii Jia in the quarter-finals. It was a great performance by the Malaysian player who had to fight for just 28 minutes to win the match. Lee Zii Jia dominated the first game right from the word go, winning the first game 21-16. The second game continued to see more aggressive play by Lee, and he completed the job by winning it 21-9 to move into the semi-finals....

Developed by Torn Banner Studios and published by Deep Silver, the elevator pitch for Chivalry 2 is as simple as they come. Two factions – the noble Agathans and the more devilish Masons – battle it out on maps with swords, axes, hammers, and whatever other objects they might come across. There are 64 and 40-player modes, each with slightly different objectives but the same core philosophy: kill the people on the other team....

MLS Review: Orlando eases past RBNY While managers are scrambling to put together game plans, goalkeepers are hoping new contests will brush over the errors they made this weekend (see note five). The best news is we’ll do it all again in just a few days when teams play Round 10 matches postponed by the referees’ strike. We’ll talk more about that later in the week, but for now let’s look at five things we learned from the recently completed Round 13:...