China’s economy is predicted to suffer its worse crash for 60 years with a shrink of nearly 10 per cent due to the coronavirus lockdown. Compared to the previous three months, China’s economy is forecast to be almost 10 per cent down and could see a 6 per cent drop on last year. Financial data … Read more
The director-general of the World Health Organization is facing calls to resign over criticisms of the way China’s response to the coronavirus crisis was managed. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is facing growing calls to step down from US politicians for trusting the communist regime’s official reporting about extent of the spread of the disease. Republican Senator … Read more
The Great Hall of the People has held many historic events since it was built six decades ago as a symbol of Communist Party power, ranging from the pomp of state funerals to a giant banquet during Richard Nixon’s famous 1973 visit. So as deaths started to spiral in China from coronavirus and fear grew … Read more
MARKET REPORT: New Year Beijing bounce for stock markets as China central bank pumps an extra £87bn into the economy Chinese Central Bank gives the market a whooping £87billion kick-start Move comes off the back of the US-China trade war and a weak year for the SSE FTSE, DAX, and the DOW were nudged up … Read more
Beijing’s chief medical advisor on the novel coronavirus has questioned the US governments’ abilities to fight the pandemic amid a tit-for-tat row between the two nations over the global emergency. Epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan claimed he worried about what would happen in America, adding ‘the problem of the US will be the problem of the world’, … Read more
The CIA has warned the White House since early February that China has vastly understated its coronavirus numbers and those figures should not be relied upon. American officials were looking at the Chinese figures as they worked on predictive models to fight the coronavirus in the United States. As the intelligence agency was issuing its … Read more
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,600 Tuesday, eclipsing China’s official count, as hard-hit New York City rushed to bring in more medical professionals and ambulances and parked refrigerated morgue trucks on the streets to collect the dead. At least 3,669 people in the US have died from the deadly virus, according … Read more
The sky’s the limit for China’s new cityscapes. A stunning coffee table book showcases China’s revolutionary modern architecture – otherworldly designs that look as though they’re from a sci-fi movie. The book – Beautified China: The Architectural Revolution – with photography by Belgian Kris Provoost and published by Lannoo, is a compendium of gorgeous photographs … Read more
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday. People are now allowed to enter the city, in China’s Hubei province, and hundreds were pictured arriving at the railway station today. However, people will not be allowed to leave until April 8 and the vast majority … Read more
A two-month lockdown of 50million people in China’s Hubei province – ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak – will be lifted this week, the government has said. People who have a ‘green’ health certificate – meaning they have tested negative for the virus – will be allowed to leave the province from midnight on March … Read more