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References to missing former foreign minister’s final activities were reinstated on government website after being erased
The mystery surrounding has intensified, as references to him that had previously been scrubbed from the foreign ministry’s website started to reappear.
Articles about Qin Gang’s activities were removed from the foreign ministry’s website after he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, on Tuesday. Qin, who has not been seen in public for a month, remained as a state councillor, leading to confusion about what, if any, disciplinary action was being taken against him.

Bolivia is using the yuan to pay for imports and exports, becoming the latest country in South America to regularly use the Chinese currency in a small but growing challenge to the hegemony of the U.S ...

James Lee Ramsey, 27, allegedly kicked the woman to the ground in San Francisco two years after being charged with a hate crime in an assault on an Oakland Chinatown leader.

Montana Senator Jon Tester announces ban on Chinese, Russian, Iranian and North Korean ownership of U.S. agricultural lands to curb Chinese espionage ...

A man arrested in San Francisco last week on charges of assaulting an 88-year-old Asian American woman had hate crime charges against him dropped in 2021, the city’s district attorney’s office said.

A San Francisco mother is gearing up to launch a new Asian American doll named Jilly Bing in a bid to fill a gap on toy shelves. Why it matters: Though U.S. doll lines have released some Asian ...

A San Francisco mother is gearing up to launch a new Asian American doll named Jilly Bing in a bid to fill a gap on toy shelves. Why it matters: Though U.S. doll lines have released some Asian ...

A San Francisco mother is gearing up to launch a new Asian American doll named Jilly in a bid to fill a gap on toy shelves. Why it matters: Though U.S. doll lines have released some Asian American ...

Foreign ministry spokesperson comments on speculation a day after refusing to answer questions about ex-minister
China’s ministry of foreign affairs has labelled speculation over the whereabouts of Qin Gang as “malicious hype” while continuing to refuse further details about the missing former foreign minister.
At a daily press conference in Beijing, the ministry’s spokesperson, Mao Ning, said China had released information about Qin “in a timely manner”. “We consistently oppose malicious hype of this matter,” she said.

Beijing believed to be aiming to rival US’s global maritime power and defeat western sanctions, report concludes
China’s military may be planning to build a host of overseas naval bases, as it hopes to protect shipping routes and strengthen its ability to resist sanctions from the US and its allies, analysis has found.
Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Bata in Equatorial Guinea and Gwadar in Pakistan are the three most likely locations for a Chinese naval base to be established in the next two to five years, according to an analysis by AidData, a US-based research institute, published on Wednesday. The report’s authors considered the amount of development financing issued by Chinese state-owned banks to port projects, the strategic value of existing infrastructure and strong relationships with host country governments, among other factors, to come up with a list of eight leading options for future Chinese naval bases.

Asian adults in the United States who suffer cardiac arrest are less likely to survive than White adults, even when given bystander CPR, a new study finds.