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China reports 526 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the highest daily total in the country in two years.
2022-03-7

The United Kingdom formally declares China to be in breach of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, saying that China is now in "a state of ongoing non-compliance" of the treaty. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says that the UK will "continue to stand up for the people of Hong Kong".
2021-03-13

The governing body of the International Civil Aviation Organization appoints Juan Carlos Salazar of Colombia as the new Secretary-General of the Organization succeeding Fang Liu of China.
2021-02-25

Chinese authorities place 4.9 million people in Langfang under lockdown for the next seven days and also subject them to mass testing in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2021-01-12

Two children are killed and twenty are injured in China after a dust devil lifts an inflatable castle off the ground.
2019-04-1

Japan summons China's ambassador, Cheng Yonghua, to Tokyo after a People's Liberation Army Navy warship sailed close to its territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for the first time.
2016-06-9

The two-child policy takes effect in China, allowing couples in the country to have at most two children, replacing the controversial one-child policy. The change in law was announced by the ruling Communist Party on October 29 and passed the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on December 27, five days prior to its effect.
2016-01-1

A China shopping mall fire started by a nine-year-old boy at the city of Huizhou in Guangdong province kills at least 17 people.
2015-02-5

Five people are killed after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
2013-10-28

Hand, foot and mouth disease kills 149 people in Hunan, China. [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-302561-china-on-alert-as-disease-outbreak-kills-112-in-june ("Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019
2012-07-15