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  2. China sends fighter jets to shadow US Navy plane over Taiwan ...

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    BEIJING (Reuters) -China's military said on Wednesday it sent fighter jets to monitor and warn a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft that flew over the sensitive Taiwan Strait, a mission that took place ...

  3. 2022 COVID-19 protests in China - Wikipedia

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    A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022. Colloquially referred to as the White Paper Protests (Chinese: 白纸抗议; pinyin: Bái zhǐ kàngyì) or the A4 Revolution (Chinese: 白纸革命; pinyin: Bái zhǐ gémìng), the demonstrations started in response to measures taken by the Chinese government to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the ...

  4. Taiwan warns of 'enormous' Chinese bases near its S.China Sea ...

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    Taiwan's foreign minister said on Wednesday that China has built "enormous" military bases on three islands surrounding Taiwan's main holding in the South China Sea, but Taipei is not looking to ...

  5. 2023 Guangzhou car attack - Wikipedia

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    On 11 January 2023, the driver of a black BMW X3 deliberately rammed his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians and motorists on Tianhe Road in Guangzhou, China, killing six people and injuring 29 others. 22-year-old Wen Qingyun was arrested in connection to the attack and sentenced to death for endangering public safety.

  6. China steps up grey-zone warfare to exhaust Taiwan ... - AOL

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    Yimou Lee. March 6, 2024 at 8:40 PM. By Yimou Lee. TAIPEI (Reuters) -China has stepped up grey-zone warfare against Taiwan, aiming to make the areas around the democratic island "saturated" with ...

  7. COVID-19 misinformation by China - Wikipedia

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    By summer 2020, China had the virus largely under control. In December 2020, the BBC published a retrospective into how Chinese state media and China's online government censors had suppressed negative information and propagandized what was reported. Silencing of medical workers. Li Wenliang was an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital.

  8. How China Will Be Challenged By a 100-Year Storm - AOL

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    In the 1930-45 period, there was the last 100-year big storm, which was driven classically by the confluence of 1) a debt bust that triggered a global depression, 2) a civil war in China between ...

  9. Gansu ultramarathon disaster - Wikipedia

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    8. On 22 May 2021, 21 professional runners died from hypothermia out of the 172 competing in a government-run 100-kilometre (62 mi) trail running race [note 2] held in the Yellow River Stone Forest in Jingtai County, Gansu, China. When a cold front struck, rain and possibly graupel were carried by gusts reaching level 9 (75–88 km/h [47–55 ...