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  2. Massive floods threaten tens of millions as intense rains ...

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    April 22, 2024 at 7:13 PM. Multiple days of heavy rains have lashed southern China, unleashing deadly floods and threatening to upend the lives of tens of millions of people as rescuers rush to ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. At least 15 killed in fire thought to have been started by ...

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    At least 15 people were killed in a fire thought to have been sparked by an electric bicycle parked at a high-rise residential building in eastern China on Friday, state media have reported.

  5. Mass surveillance in China - Wikipedia

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    Mass surveillance in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the network of monitoring systems used by the Chinese central government to monitor Chinese citizens. It is primarily conducted through the government, although corporate surveillance in connection with the Chinese government has been reported to occur.

  6. Xinjiang conflict - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Xinjiang conflict ( Chinese: 新疆冲突 ), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile ), [13] is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China 's far- northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as ...

  7. COVID-19 misinformation by China - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese government has actively engaged in disinformation to downplay the emergence of COVID-19 in China and manipulate information about its spread around the world. The government also detained whistleblowers and journalists claiming they were spreading rumors when they were publicly raising concerns about people being hospitalized for a "mysterious illness" resembling SARS.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Weak economy, COVID rampage likely shrank China's ... - AOL

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    January 8, 2024 at 10:03 PM. By Farah Master. HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's population likely dropped for a second consecutive year in 2023 due to a surge in COVID-related deaths after the country ...