#China

Washington has not changed its assessment on China’s timeline for potentially taking Taiwan militarily, a senior Pentagon official said on Monday, sticking by previous statements that Beijing would not ...

By Yimou Lee Chinese aircraft and warships practised on Saturday for an attack on Taiwan, island officials said, in retaliation for a visit there by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...

China announced on Friday it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theater-level military commanders and on climate change, in a furore over ...

By Wang Sheng On July 19, Cyprus Mail published a reportage titled “As China flexes its muscles in the Indo-Pacific, Canada and Austraila must step up”. I deeply regret the strong ...

China’s Xinjiang on Saturday warned of more flash floods and mudslides and risks to agriculture as heatwaves swept across the region, accelerating the pace of glacial melt and posing ...

The finals of the Chinese language competition Cyprus Bridge were held recently online, the second consecutive year the competition has been held in Cyprus. It was held alongside the 2022 Chinese ...

“Well, my dear, we didn’t know where to look. The old codger was getting away with it again, fielding the questions like a man only nine-tenths of his age, ...

China and Cyprus have agreed to closer ties in the fields of higher education and science, as the government seeks to promote the island as an international educational and scientific ...

The Cyprus Post announced on Wednesday that all postal services to China will be temporarily suspended, except the Quickpost courier service, due to the health measures that have been taken ...

The situation in Shanghai is extreme, local epidemiologist and state Covid-19 adviser Michalis Voniatis said on Friday, referring to shocking scenes emerging from China’s strict ‘zero-Covid’ lockdowns. The draconian ...

By Brenda Goh and Engen Tham Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on ...

Chinese Ambassador Liu Yantao has visited Cypriot referee Kyriacos Kyriacou who had to undergo emergency surgery while he was in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Kyriacou was hospitalised on ...

China rejected calling Russia’s moves on Ukraine an “invasion” and urged all sides to exercise restraint, even as it advised its citizens there to stay home or at least ...

Teenager Eileen Gu nailed a new trick in the final run of the freeski Big Air on Tuesday, delivering host nation China its quickest gold rush at a Winter Games . ...

Digital intruders broke into News Corp email accounts and compromised the data of an unspecified number of journalists, the company disclosed Friday. The media firm’s internet security adviser said ...

China’s capital Beijing urged all its local districts on Saturday to maintain “full emergency mode” as the city continued to report new local coronavirus cases, less than two weeks ...

An electric heater was withdrawn from the market on Wednesday for failing to comply with essential safety requirements. In a written statement, the department of electromechanical services said the importer ...

By Lanting Liu The 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Cyprus was marked by the opening of a big photographic exhibition at the Cyprus foreign ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken touted on Tuesday a U.S. strategy to deepen its Asian treaty alliances, offering to boost defence and intelligence work with partners in an Indo-Pacific ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Reuters Next conference on Friday that Chinese leaders should think carefully about their actions toward Taiwan, warning of “terrible consequences” if ...

Threats and coercion by China towards Taiwan increase the need for the United States to help Taiwan maintain a credible self-defence, the top US diplomat for Asia said on Thursday. ...

Cyprus and China reaffirmed their bonds through a joint statement on Tuesday following a telephone conversation between President Nicos Anastasiades and President Xi Jinping to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations. ...

By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom and Trevor Hunnicutt US President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, the White House said, talks Washington ...

“I saw in some of the newspapers they used the term ‘Sputnik moment’,” said general Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. “I don’t know if ...