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Toronto-area MP Han Dong is at the centre of a political firestorm following a Global News report that he allegedly spoke with a Chinese diplomat in 2021, advising Beijing to delay freeing Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, according to two intelligence sources.

(Reuters) – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday that she will travel to Beijing next week with heads of other international institutions to press for quicker action on debt relief for poor and developing countries.The meetings with the country's leadership will focus on China's economic, COVID-19 and debt relief policies and will include officials from China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China, the IMF said."This is the first time, hopefully, we will be able to sit together and discuss the very pressing issues that China, and the world are faced with," Georgieva told the Reuters NEXT conference.Georgieva said that during the Beijing meetings she intends to discuss ways to accelerate China's participation in debt relief for poor and developing countries as the world's largest official bilateral creditor."I am very hopeful that when we have a chance next week to discuss these issues, we will continue on a path of finding better solutions and strengthening the capacity of the common framework to deliver," she said, referring to G20 countries' slow-to-launch common debt restructuring framework.World Bank President David Malpass told the conference that he would join the discussions in Beijing, along with officials from the World Trade Organization, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and others.Georgieva and Malpass have both called for reforms of the common framework to offer heavily indebted countries a freeze in debt service payments when they apply for debt relief and clearer timelines for reaching agreement on debt treatments.Asked if China's slowing growth would limit its appetite for agreeing to debt reductions, Georgieva said she hoped

COLOMBO (News 1st) – China is a most sincere and reliable friend of Sri Lanka, notes the Ambassador Qi Zhenhong in a statement released by the Embassy in commemoration of the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.The Ambassador also visited several key Chinese enterprises and projects in Sri Lanka to meet with the local and the Chinese staff to pass wishes for the National Day holiday in China.The full statement of the Chinese Embassy is as follows:On the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and with the approaching of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, I would like to wish the country prosperity and progress, our people health and happiness, and best regards to all the Chinese fellow citizens working, studying and living in Sri Lanka! I would also like to extend my heartfelt thanks to our Sri Lankan friends from all walks of life, who have always been following and supporting the development of China and China-Sri Lanka relations!In the past year, the world has gone through tremendous changes. Under the strong leadership of CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, we have overcome adverse effects brought by complexed international challenges，sporadic outbreaks of COVID-19 pandemic and unpredictable earthquakes, floods and droughts, and China’s economy has maintained a stabilized and increasing momentum with much potential to be released.

Tokyo, Japan (Kyodo) – Japan is prepared to "do its part" over Sri Lanka's debt issue, but other creditors, such as China and India, should also be involved in efforts to resolve it, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said Thursday (29).Suzuki made the remarks after meeting with Ranil Wickremesinghe, president of Sri Lanka, which has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a $2.9 billion loan as the Asian nation needs to restructure its massive debt.Suzuki said he urged Sri Lanka during Thursday's meeting to provide the necessary information, make its own efforts to get China, India and other creditors involved and boost transparency."Japan will do its part if such preconditions are met," Suzuki told reporters without elaborating in the Philippine capital Manila, where he attended a meeting of the Asian Development Bank.During his visit to Japan, the Sri Lankan president met Wednesday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and discussed the debt issue. The leaders recognized the importance of "fair and transparent" debt restructuring that involves all creditor nations, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt earlier this year.

As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and a concerning monkeypox outbreak, a new zoonotic virus likely transmitted to humans from animals has caught the attention of scientists.

Canada is calling on China to de-escalate tensions that have mounted over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, who went missing in Hong Kong five years ago, was due to go on trial in China on Monday, the Canadian embassy in Beijing said.

China’s government relaxed the shutdown in areas of Shanghai Tuesday that have had no new Covid cases. Some people were allowed to leave their homes, and some food sellers were able to reopen.

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, officials said.

China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country’s biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago.The National Health Commission reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases in the latest 24-hour period, including 895 in the industrial province of Jilin. A government notice said that police permission would be required for people to leave the area or travel from one city to another.The hard-hit province sent 7,000 reservists to help with the response, from keeping order and registering people at testing centers to using drones to carry out aerial spraying and disinfection, state broadcaster CCTV reported.Hundreds of cases were reported in other provinces and cities along China’s east coast and inland as well.

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Chinese health authorities have claimed that the highly transmissible Omicron variant of COVID-19 may have arrived into the capital, Beijing, via a contaminated letter from Canada — an assertion dismissed and questioned by Canadian experts.The Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control (BCDC) said in a news release Monday that its first case of the Omicron variant in a Beijing resident could be the result of international mail sent from Canada via the United States and Hong Kong.The letter was sent on Jan. 7 and received on Jan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday called for mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccines based on the World Health Organization’s emergency use list, according to a transcript of his remarks published by the official Xinhua news agency.Speaking to the Group of 20 Leaders’ Summit in Rome via video link, Xi said China had provided more than 1.6 billion COVID shots to the world, and was working with 16 nations to cooperate on manufacturing doses.

Beijing residents on Wednesday were confident in the 2022 Winter Olympics still occurring, as the city prepares to host thousands of athletes and personnel for Games while China currently battles flare-ups of COVID-19.

Wuhan, China was undergoing testing for its 12 million residents for COVID-19 on Wednesday after the city confirmed its first domestic case of the highly-transmissible Delta variant.

China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was “rather taken aback” by the call for a further into the pandemic’s origins and specifically, the theory that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab.He dismissed the lab leak theory as a rumour that runs counter to common sense and science.“It is impossible for us to accept such an origin-tracing plan,” he said a a news conference called to address the COVID-19 origins issue.

China’s foreign ministry on Monday rejected a Wall Street Journal report that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19.

COVID-19 at the top of the world: they’re going to draw a line through the peak of Mount Everest.The sitcom-like strategy is a response to Nepal‘s struggles with the coronavirus, which has afflicted several cities and reportedly spread to tourists at base camp on the Nepali side of the mountain.Chinese state media announced on Monday that a team of 21 Tibetan climbers will scale Everest in order to set up a separation line between the Chinese and Nepali sides of the summit. The line is meant to prevent climbers from interacting on the tiny mountaintop, the country’s Xinhua News Agency reports.

David Vigneault singled out Russia and China, saying that Beijing was engaged in “activities that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty.”“You may think to yourself, ‘I’m not a national security person. I’m a scientist, a business person, an academic and so on.

World Health Organization team has concluded, an expert said Tuesday as the group wrapped up a visit to explore the origins of the virus.The Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China has collected extensive virus samples, leading to allegations that it may have caused the original outbreak by leaking the virus into the surrounding community. China has strongly rejected that possibility and has promoted other theories for the virus’s origins.

In early 2020, the city of Wuhan, China was under an unprecedented lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak, prompting Canada to send its first plane to bring Canadians home to safety.

Just one year ago, Wuhan, China became the world’s first city where the novel coronavirus was first identified. Officials scrambled to contain this insidious enemy.

Michael Kovrig draws strength from knowing that his fellow Canadians and people around the world are working to free him and Michael Spavor from their respective Chinese prison cells.As much as that matters, Kovrig’s wife Vina Nadjibulla says he is also subjecting himself to a strict regimen to strengthen his mind and body because he views that as the key to his survival.

China’s scrutiny of imported products and are calling on it to stop aggressive testing for the coronavirus, which some say is tantamount to a trade restriction.China says it has found the virus on the packaging of products from 20 countries including German pork, Brazilian beef and Indian fish, but foreign officials say the lack of evidence produced by authorities means it is damaging trade and hurting the reputation of imported food without reason.In a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on Nov.

Worldometers website, coronavirus cases worldwide stood at 32.5 million on Friday morning.

Patty Hajdu continues to defend the Chinese government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying all countries have difficulties calculating the extent of the virus spread.In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Hajdu was asked about her comments earlier in the year when she dismissed as a conspiracy theory a question about whether China had underreported their cases and the severity of the new, highly contagious disease.“You had dismissed that as a conspiracy theory.

COVID-19 vaccine, a multimillion-dollar collaboration between Canada and China has failed, likely because of Beijing’s geopolitical concerns, say scientists with direct knowledge of the project.This week Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) announced it has abandoned its partnership with Chinese company CanSino Biologics, because China’s government continues to block shipments of vaccine materials to Canada.

Because of that delay the NRC says the opportunity to conduct the trials is over.The NRC says the Canadian Center for Vaccinology had been ready to start clinical trials as early as June, after Health Canada approved CanSino’s proposal.The Halifax lab was one of several in Canada and in the U.S.

COVID-19 candidate vaccine remain delayed from getting to Canada, more than three months after Health Canada approved them for Phase 1 trials here.The Ad5-nCoV potential vaccine is being produced at CanSino Biologics in Tianjin, China, and uses cell lines developed at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).Researchers at Dalhousie University’s Canadian Center for Vaccinology were set to test the CanSino product in Phase 1 trials in Halifax as early as late May.Ad5-nCoV has already completed relatively promising Phase 2 trials within China. In June, it was approved for use in the People’s Liberation Army – China’s armed forces.A Chinese patent was granted for Ad5-nCoV this month, and Phase 3, large-scale trials — which include people

Canada is facing criticism for funding a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the Chinese company CanSino. Although it was approved for human trials in Canada, it still hasn’t arrived more than three-months after it was given the green light.

Wuhan over the weekend for a socially snug concert, less than a year after the novel coronavirus broke out in the Chinese city.Photos from the Playa Maya Water Park show Chinese tourists swimming and floating on dinghies in close quarters, without the usual masks and social-distancing measures that have become commonplace in other countries hit by the virus. ‘I’m not nude!’ — Acrobat handcuffed after wearing thong to Myrtle Beach More people were wearing goggles and life-jackets than face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the photos show.Critics have often described such partygoers as “Covidiots” in other parts of the world, including the U.S.

conflict in the Indo-Pacific. That can also be said of most Canadians.As with so much internationally in recent years, the federal government has had little to say as accelerating tensions roil a vast area stretching in a crescent from South Korea and Japan to Indonesia to India.

WUHAN : China said on Wednesday that a team of World Health Organisation (WHO) will visit the country to trace the origin of COVID-19.The disease, which originated in Wuhan city of China, has killed over 500,000 people in the world and cases and deaths are increasing by the day."After consultation, the Chinese government has agreed that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will send a team of experts to Beijing to trace the origin of COVID-19," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said during a press briefing.ANI had reported last week that a WHO team will visit China to trace the origins of coronavirus.The visit will take place more than six months after the WHO's Country Office in China picked up a statement from the Wuhan Municipal

A Canadian legal activist is warning the federal government to grant asylum to democracy activists in Hong Kong and expanded settlement to those with links to Canada before China prevents them from leaving.

China will attack Taiwan if there is no other way of stopping it from becoming independent, one of the country’s most senior generals said on Friday, a rhetorical escalation between China and the democratically ruled island Beijing claims as its own.

Wednesday’s legal setback in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou‘s extradition battle drew sharp condemnation from both Huawei and the Chinese embassy in Ottawa, which once again called on Canada to immediately release her.

In a four-page letter detailing his grievances with the WHO, Trump called on the group to 'demonstrate independence from China'

Chinese President Xi Jinping is apparently changing course, and is now supporting calls for an investigation into the origin of COVID-19. As Crystal Goomansingh reports, the announcement comes after much criticism from the U.S.

China’s Ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, tells Mercedes Stephenson his country supports a WHO review committee on COVID-19, but says countries should be focused on fighting the pandemic.

China‘s Wuhan said on Friday it has tested over 3 million of its 11 million citizens for the coronavirus, as it seeks to test all residents after a cluster of new cases raised fears of a second wave of infections.

For Anastasia Lin, the breakthrough came shortly after her speech at Oxford University in early February.

The city of Wuhan, China, where the novel coronavirus pandemic is believed to have started, has reported its first cluster of infections since lifting the lockdown it had imposed in response to the virus.

The Trump administration is making ever louder pronouncements casting blame on China for the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to sidestep domestic criticism of the president’s own response, tarnish China’s global reputation and give the U.S. leverage on trade and other aspects of U.S.-China competition.

The Trump administration is pointing fingers at China as it investigates unconfirmed evidence suggesting COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan, China. Meanwhile, as states reopen across the U.S., some Americans are dropping social distancing efforts against the advice of health experts.

China accused Australia of “petty tricks” on Wednesday in an intensifying dispute over Canberra’s push for an international inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak that could affect diplomatic and economic ties between the countries.

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday addressed the new numbers emerging from China regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic, which added an additional 325 cases and 1, 290 deaths from Wuhan, China.

It’s hard to imagine what life will be like after the COVID-19 quarantine, however two Canadians in China are shedding light on their experience now that some lockdowns have been lifted. Lisa MacGregor reports.

Speaking to reporters on Ottawa on Thursday, Federal health Minister Patty Hadju said that here is “no indication” that the reported numbers as far as COVID-19 infection rates out of China were falsified. Hadju added that Canada does not rely on any one country or NGO for their COVID-19 data.