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China’s space agency releases video footage two days after its Mars probe successfully entered the red planet’s orbit.China’s space agency has released video footage from its spacecraft circling Mars, two days after it successfully entered the planet’s orbit in Beijing’s latest ambitious space mission. In the video, published by state broadcaster CCTV, the surface of…

HONG KONG—The environmental report was unusually harsh: China’s National Energy Administration had skirted air-pollution regulations, allowed excess construction of coal plants and failed to heed leader Xi Jinping’s instructions on environmental matters. “Some comrades at the National Energy Administration believe that the energy sector’s most important task is to ensure supply and that excessive ecological…

China’s government ordered the British Broadcasting Corp. off the airwaves in Chinese territory for news reports it called unfair, an outage that will be matched in Hong Kong by the local public radio network. The action comes days after Beijing’s primary international news channel lost its license in the U.K. The tit-for-tat move shows how…

Chinese regulators banned BBC World News on Thursday, accusing the British broadcaster of a “slew of falsified reporting” on Beijing’s coronavirus response and oppression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, according to Chinese state media.Why it matters: The move was widely seen as retaliation against the U.K. after Britain’s own broadcasting regulator withdrew the operating license…

China has been blocking India’s efforts to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council Topics India’s UNSC bid | India China relations | India china trade China, which has been blocking India’s efforts to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council, on Wednesday reiterated its stand on New Delhi’s bid, and called for evolving a…

Nearly every product in American homes, from lightbulbs to couches, windows and Wi-Fi routers, conforms to standards and measurements of a global system established to ensure quality and seamless operation. Industrial standards, created by the U.S. and its allies over decades, form an invisible matrix of rules that underpin the global marketplace. Mundane though it…

(Reuters) – China’s aluminium sector must shut dedicated power capacity equivalent to more than Germany’s entire coal fleet over the next decade to keep Beijing on track to meet its carbon pledges, climate think tank Ember says.FILE PHOTO: Aluminium bar stock is seen inside a factory in Dongguan, China April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Bobby YipChina accounts…