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At least 15 people are killed by flash floods caused by torrential rain in Chongqing, China.
2023-07-5

Paramount leader Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China will not attend in person the Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow, as it's told to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The announcement comes amid international pessimism that, now compounded by the absence of China, a global leader in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, the event would not result in any substantiative change.
2021-10-15

The United States Senate unanimously votes to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bill that would ban products from Xinjiang in China, unless they are certified as not from the Xinjiang internment camps.
2021-07-14

Solomon Islands receives 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine from China.
2021-04-12

The United States Postal Service suspends time guarantees for all shipments to China and Hong Kong.
2020-02-12

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian in China, is sentenced to death after a one-day retrial for attempting to smuggle over 222 kilograms (489.4 pounds) of methamphetamine through the country. Schellenberg's new sentence comes amid increasing tensions between Canada and China.
2019-01-14

An explosion at a chemical plant in Sichuan, China, kills 19 people and injures 12 others.
2018-07-13

China says it will open disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea to tourism before the May Day holiday, a move to which Vietnam is strongly opposed, as the United States expresses concern.
2013-04-7

China blocks Internet access to terms related to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 on the 23rd anniversary of the protests.
2012-06-4

A Tibetan protester self-immolates during a protest in the Indian capital New Delhi, ahead of a visit by the Chinese president Hu Jintao.
2012-03-26