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Ten people are killed and eight others are injured by two tornadoes in Yancheng and Suqian in Jiangsu, China.
2023-09-19

The United Nations Security Council extends an arms embargo and targeted sanctions on the Central African Republic for another year. China was the only UNSC member to abstain from the vote.
2021-07-29

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar travels to Taiwan for a multi-day official visit. He is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the country in 40 years after the U.S. stopped recognising Taiwan in 1979 and has had unofficial ties since then. The PRC, which claims Taiwan as a breakaway province, condemns the visit.
2020-08-5

Fiji's opposition parties urge the government to reconsider its decision of closing Fiji's embassy in the United States, the European Union, and other countries, and blame Chinese influence in the Pacific.
2020-07-29

British retailer Tesco suspends operations at a factory in China after the "Sunday Times" newspaper reports that a six-year-old in London found a message from Shanghai prisoners calling for help and urging whoever finds the message to alert a human rights organisation, with a link to the author of the story, hidden inside a pack of charity Christmas cards. Tesco says that it has a policy against using prison labour.
2019-12-22

At least 56 people have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes as Typhoon Lekima hits eastern China.
2019-08-10

Filipino fishermen say China has deployed up to five ships around the disputed Quirino Atoll, also known as Jackson Atoll, in the South China Sea, preventing them from accessing traditional fishing grounds.
2016-03-1

China fines Glaxosmithkline US$490 million for its alleged involvement in a bribery scandal.
2014-09-19

China criticizes Vietnam for passing a law that claims sovereignty of the Spratly Islands.
2012-06-22

In accordance with a request from the South Korean government, China stops the deportation of North Korean defectors who escape to China.
2012-04-23