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BEIJING (Reuters) -China and Canada want to maintain contacts to bolster what Beijing called the "current difficult situation" in bilateral relations, the two governments said after talks between ...
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. [1] [2] 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.
Michael Kovrig (left) and Michael Spavor (right) In December 2018, Canadian nationals Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were taken into custody in China. It appeared that their detention on December 10 and subsequent indictment under the state secrets law were linked to the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Canada on December 1. [1]
On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [14] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu.
China sought to play down a diplomatic dispute with Canada on Thursday after footage of President Xi Jinping rebuking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over leaks at the G-20 summit.
Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi has accused some in Western countries of using the pandemic to smear China's social policies, in a commentary published in Communist Party mouthpiece People's ...
The Canadian government has been tracking Chinese government efforts to influence Canada since at least 1986. [2] These overseas influence operations have allegedly risen to the extent that they represent an alarming security threat to the United States, who conducted a secret probe into the issue in the 1990s, according to former Canadian and US intelligence officials. [3]
The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. On December 31 ...