The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest. Jayati Ghosh* It should be obvious: natural processes—and the ‘anthropocene’ effects on them—do not observe national boundaries. The atmosphere and the oceans do not rely on visas to cross borders, and the impact …
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Ahram Online ‘China Eastern’ airline confirmed that 132 people died aboard flight U5735 which crashed in Southern China on Monday. “The company expresses its deep condolences for the passengers and crew members who died in the plane crash”, China Eastern said. Chinese President Xi called for “all efforts towards the …
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Three months after the Biden-Xi summit, the two sides’ divergent framings of the bilateral relationship are hindering progress. Paul Haenle* and Sam Bresnick* Fifty years ago this week, former US President Richard Nixon flew to China, setting the stage for a dramatic shift in relations between the two countries. Much …
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Ahram Online “The Palestinian Authority received an Egyptian-Chinese gift of 500,000 doses of the Egyptian-made Sinovac/VACSERA COVID-19 vaccine to support the people of the Gaza Strip”, a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population read on Sunday. The Palestinian Consul to Cairo Nidaa al-Barghouthy received the gift in the presence of …
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Ahram Online Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi attended the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympics held in Beijing on Friday alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping “Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee and a number of world leaders attended the ceremony too”, said Egyptian Presidential spokesman Bassam Rady. …
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Egypt Today Egypt’s VACSERA pharmaceutical company and China’s Sinovac Biotech signed a cooperation agreement, during a virtual ceremony hosted by the Egyptian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday. “The deal was signed by CEO of Sinovac Biotech, Weidong Yin, and VACSERA Chief, Heba Wali, in the presence of acting Minister of …
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Egypt Independent “Tickets for the Winter Olympics, set to begin on 4 February, will be distributed to targeted groups of people, and will not be sold to the general public”, the organising committee said on Monday. The committee cited “severe and complex COVID-19 situation”, and the “need to protect the …
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Ahram Online The Biden administration imposed on Thursday new sanctions on several Chinese biotech and surveillance companies and government entities for actions in the Xinjiang province. The decision stands against Beijing’s abuses on Uyghur Muslims’ human rights in China’s Western region. The Commerce Department is targeting China’s Academy of Military …
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Ahram Online “China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population”, a London panel investigating alleged human rights abuses concluded on Thursday. The tribunal was set up at the request of the ‘World Uyghur Congress’, the largest group representing exiled Uyghurs which lobbies the international …
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Egypt Independent Egypt and China signed a new economic and technical cooperation agreement on Monday. The agreement will offer financial grants to several development projects, which comes within the framework of the strategic relations and development projects between the two. It was signed during a meeting between Minister of International …
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