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Elon Musk has offered a proposal to resolve the rising tensions between China and Taiwan. This has come days after Musk proposed a resolve to end Russia-Ukraine war, which received widespread criticism and resulted in Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy replying to Musk’s tweet. Musk stated that, the China-Taiwan tensions could be dealt with by “handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing”, stating that the conflict over Taiwan is “… read-more

China’s former deputy public security minister Sun Lijun has been sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly accepting $91 million in bribe. He was also accused of allegedly “deserting” his post during China’s initial fight against COVID-19. The 53-year-old Lijun was initially sentenced to death. However, his punishment was commuted to life imprisonment. The coring held that Lijun has abused his power during 2001 to 2020.

Amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases, the Chinese government and Beijing authority reversed the recently announced relaxations from Covid-19 restrictions and lockdown rules.  As per sources, most children in the capital will not return to school next week, whereas the nation's "zero Covid" policy will also remain in place, restricting events, gatherings and aimless roaming of people in Beijing. Notably, the nation reported over 200 single… read-more

Ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022, 53 athletes from 12 nations, set to participate, tested positive for COVID-19 and are in isolation. Efforts like "zero COVID-19 policy" curbing local transmission by enforcing strict restrictions, seems to be in vain. In addition, due to the situation, at least 12 athletes were deprived to participate in the event. Notably, China announced to conduct COVID free 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. 

The National Health Commission in a report on January 16, said that China reported 65 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases. However, 54 new imported cases in nine provincial-level regions were reported, said the commission. Moreover, 33 new local cases were reported in Tianjin, 29 in Henan and one each in Beijing, Guangdong, and Shaanxi. Meanwhile, nine new cases in Shanghai were registered and no Covid-19 deaths were reported.