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Video shot by my colleague Cui Meng at the National Tennis Center showing Peng Shuai signing signature on large-sized tennis balls at the opening ceremony of Junior Tennis Challenger Final, a way of inspiring more kids to play tennis as hobby and may also as career
When the Chinese Taipei delegation from the
#Taiwan
Island marched into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the 19th
#AsianGames
, the audience give loud claps with enduring cheers. President Xi is also smiling and clapping to welcome the delegation.
My city, my hometown.
#Wuhan
lights up for the first time since
#coronaravirus
outbreak. Wuhan people are warm-hearted, resilient & hardworking. The city is sick, hopefully, it can get better soon.
Jackie Chan, the famous
#HongKong
actor and film director, said he always said that he’s been proud of being a Chinese, now he is proud of
#CPC
for its great achievement, and he wants to be a CPC member.
#China
I have never seen my hometown like this😢😢Tonight, the city conducts full-scale disinfectant to contain
#CoronavirusOutbreak
, Yichang has recorded so far more than 400 confirmed cases as of Tuesday. The city is 400 kilometers away from
#Wuhan
.
#2019_nCov
When Trump supporters storm Capitol, they are called as 'mob' but we've seen exactly the similar scenario happened in
#HongKong
#LegCo
in 2019. Those
#US
politicians like
@SpeakerPelosi
who praised
#HK
rioters as fighters for freedom would see the democracy is failing now.
Live from
#MWC19
:
#Huawei
Mate 20 X, the first Chinese smartphone got access license to
#5G
network in
#China
, tests 5G network with 635Mbps. This is not the maximum speed as MWC venues limit the overall 5G access to ensure the stability of networks.
"I've watched a lot of his movies." "I like your movies very much." President Xi Jinping told French filmmaker Luc Besson at state dinner held by
@EmmanuelMacron
in Paris.
#ChinaFrance60
“Grandfather Yuan, R.I.P.” Circulating video shows Chinese people mourn over death of "the Father of Hybrid Rice," Yuan Longping, who passed away of illness in Changsha at 1:07 pm on Saturday at the age of 91. He will always be remembered as
#China
’s national hero.
A friend sent me this video showing Chinese tennis star player Peng Shuai talked with Yao Ming, one of the most beloved players in
@NBA
history, this morning at an event “FIS Cross-Country Skiing China City Tour’ in Shanghai.
The Chinese military dispatched naval vessels to evacuate Chinese personnel in
#Sudan
. Chinese nationals line up for boarding the vessels, some hold Chinese national flag. This is the third time the Chinese navy takes the mission of evacuation of Chinese nationals overseas.
Putin told Xi that the United States and NATO have long ignored Russia's reasonable security concerns, repeatedly reneged on their commitments, and continued to advance military deployment eastward, challenging Russia's strategic bottom line.Russia is willing to conduct.. 1/3
Xinhua reported Xi is in
#Tibet
now. He inspects Nyingchi and the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, which extends more than 1,740 kilometers from Chengdu to Lhasa, and it cut the journey from Chengdu to Lhasa from 48 hours to 13 hours.
#Huawei
says it will officially launch its new operating system
#HarmonyOS
for smartphones on June 2. The company has been working on the self-developed operating system to replace
#Google
’s Android amid
#US
crackdown. Now the HarmonyOS is used in not only in smart screen, auto.
Ma, who used to be an English teacher and founder of
#Alibaba
, also gives wishes to village teachers via a video on Wednesday, saying usually the activity is held in Sanya in southern Hainan but this year, due to
#Covid19
it has to be done via video conference.
#Shenzhen
thread: 1. Why can't
#US
govt destroy Chinese high tech? I took these two photos at 10:30 pm at
#Tencent
headquarters in
#Shenzhen
, known as
#China
Silicon Valley as it's home to a number of tech firms like
#DJI
,
#Huawei
& Tencent. The office lights all on as employees
Go girl! This is
#Uygur
girl who is also
#Beijing2022
#Olympic
cauldron lighter Dinigeer Yilamujiang, who competed today's women’s 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon. So proud. Photo: Li Hao/GT
In today's Wangfujing shopping area in
#Beijing
, not queueing for buying luxury bags, but for taking
#nucleic
acid tests as the city is undertaking massive testing in some major districts including Xicheng where the central govt is located & top leaders live.
#COVID19
Unverified info on social media: Chen Wei, who led
#Chinese
military medical team in fighting
#Ebola
and now is combating
#COVID19
, takes the first injection of the potential
#vaccine
against the disease, as the research and development on it made major breakthroughs.
#China
Who is politicizing the sports?
@WTA
all tournaments were canceled in China last year due to
#COVID19
, and it seems that the epidemic impact is still not over now. Why using the story of
#PengShuai
as an excuse for not holding tournaments due to
#COVID19
?
A senior official from the Chinese PLA hit out at the comments made by
#US
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at
#SLD23
on Saturday emphasizing that the question of
#Taiwan
is of core interest to China and will not allow any compromise or concession.
#beijing
just announced to shorten the quarantine time for arrivals from overseas from 21 days of collective quarantine to 10 days collective quarantine plus 7 days home quarantine.
“
#Democracy
is not a patent of the West, nor can it be defined by the West. Western democracy is a democracy dominated by capital, a democracy of the rich, not true democracy,”says Jiang Jinquan, director of the Policy Research Office CPC Central Committee
A research paper from Chinese Academy of Sciences suggested that
#COVID19
transmission in human hosts could be traced back to July or August of 2019 and
#India
has the highest strain diversity. The preprint paper has now been peer-reviewed
All-in effort: after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang praised street-stall economy to help GDP recovery and tackle job market woes in post-
#COVID19
, everyone is talking about becoming a street vendor. Bubbles or real engine in driving economic revitalization?
#China
#economy
Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon Shaman," was sentenced on Wed to 41 months in prison for his role in
#US
#CapitolRiot
.
One of the
#HongKong
protesters who stormed LegCo reportedly fled the city in 2019.
#MengWanzhou
hug her lawyer outside the hearing room. That’s it, the two-year extradition battle now ends and she is free to return to
#China
. Under the DPA with DOJ, she has not pleaded guilty, which is a result accepted by all parties.
A signal: Hua Chunying appeared at today's Chinese Foreign Ministry routine press briefing. The last time we saw her at the briefing in 2022 was on Feb 24, when Russia began military operation in Ukraine.
#Pelosi
#Taiwan
#JUSTIN
: Chinese MOFA announced to sanction 7
#US
individuals including
#US
former commerce minister Wilbur Ross over
#US
latest
#HongKong
business warning
Following the remarks by the Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye concerning the sovereignty of ex-Soviet nations, Chinese FM spokesperson Mao Ning said on Mon that China respects the status of the member republics as sovereign states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Presidenta de Honduras
@XiomaraCastroZ
llega a la República Popular China, Shanghai 🇨🇳, en histórica y esperada visita luego de la apertura de relaciones. Mañana inicia agenda en BRICS y Huawei, luego encuentro en Cumbre con Presidente Xi Jinping en Beijing 🇭🇳🇨🇳 ¡Enhorabuena
@SecBlinken
No surprise you are upset because the era of manipulating HK affairs through cultivated foreign agents behind political battling is over. To admit or not, HK has already moved on.
He instruido al Canciller Eduardo Reina, para que gestione la apertura de relaciones oficiales con la República Popular China, como muestra de mi determinación para cumplir el Plan de Gobierno y expandir las fronteras con libertad en el concierto de las naciones del mundo.
Why
#JoshuaWong
was not arrested but this 12-year-old got arrested? Because Wong is smart enough to avoid getting into the illegal assembly by only showing up at the beginning. How many times you see him in illegal protests? Very rare. Why? Because he knows it’s violation of law
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi said the
#US
overreacted to the balloon incident. Shooting down a balloon for civilian use violates the international practice, which was hysteria. There are many balloons flying over the sky around the world, will the US shoot all of them down?
#MSC
#Taiwan
media reported today that
#TSMC
is required to submit supply data, inventory and sales related data to
#US
by November 8 which may weaken its bargaining capabilities as those data are part of business secrets. For one reason US so worried about reunification, chipset?
Insiders who are familiar with the case told us the sentence is in line with the expectation, which was judged from the outcome of the case, justice is served. Won't forget what happened to my colleague that day when I was there, by his side but couldn't help
#FuGuohao
#HongKong
#Breaking
: Three suspects including anti-govt rioters Amy Pat Wai-fun and Lai Yun Long involved in illegally detaining and wounding Global Times reporter
#FuGuohao
at
#HongKong
airport in August 2019 have been sentenced. (Photo: File)
More exciting news today: Dr. Zhong Nanshan, and Dr. Fauci will hold an online dialogue on March 2, the first one between two prominent experts since the epidemic began. This will also be a long-awaited interaction for
#US
-
#China
may open a new chapter in anti-
#COVID19
fight.
Two sources close to
#China
's top legislator forecast
#NationalSecurityLaw
for
#HongKong
will soon take effect, allowing national security department to set up branches in
#HK
for intelligence work and counter-terrorism. This is huge.
When Chinese President Xi Jinping cast the vote at Huairentang polling station today in Zhongnanhai constituency, he said it should advance the whole-process
#democracy
& strengthen the supervision of elections.
China's first social rescue force will dispatch the first rescue team to the most severely damaged area in
#Turkey
on the morning of Feb 7. The team is consisted of 8 experts, carrying advanced radar life search equipment, demolition rescue equipment and a search & rescue dog.
#HongKong
media TVB says
@JimmyLaiApple
was charged under
#NationalSecurityLaw
for
#HongKong
. More details to be confirmed while legal experts told us earlier given his infamous behavior, it's highly possible Lai would face a severe sentence, and life imprisonment also possible
A friend in NYC sent me this picture today, asking if it’s like Beijing now? I sent her a pic of Beijing yesterday (the second pic attached) In recent years, China’s air quality improved a lot, as we made much efforts in dealing with sand and dust storms.
#NYCsmoke
China's star tennis player
#PengShuai
appeared at the opening ceremony of the FILA KIDS Junior Tennis Challenger Final (U10, U12), a high-end youth tennis tournament in China, at National Tennis Center in Beijing on Sunday. Source: livestream from China Open
#Wuhan
after the lockdown. After spent few days in
#Hubei
, I feel sad for local residents including my mom & dad, as lots of them have not realized that
#WuhanCoronavirus
is a such big public health crisis until Jan 22-23. This is not normal, as the first outbreak was mid-Dec.
#JUSTIN
:
#JackMa
not disappear, here we go: Ma just had a video conference with 100 village teachers on Wednesday morning, saying: after
#COVID19
, we'll meet each other again
After my mother-in-law saw a dog in
#HongKong
was first known case of human-to-animal
#coronavirus
transmission this morning, she put a plastic bag to protect Chouchou (stinky stinky), a 14-year-old pug and our important family member when she goes out, and assures us he is ok...
...high-level negotiations with
#Ukraine
. Xi told Putin that
#China
decides its position based on the merits of
#Ukraine
issue itself. It is necessary to abandon the Cold War mentality, attach importance to and respect the legitimate security concerns of all countries, and form..
So happy to see some of these prominent Chinese sports stars, besides Yao Ming and Peng Shuai, also, Olympic sailing champion Xu Lijia and table tennis Wang Liqin, cheer for ice sports ahead of
@Beijing2022
According to the full footage released tonight describing what happened at
#GalwanValley
border clash, isn’t it clear that it was
#Indian
troop that initiated the fight, carrying with batons and deployed a large number of soldiers who illegal trespassing
#LAC
first?
#China
No matter how chaotic the world is, the friendship between
#China
and
#Russia
won't be shaken, and the two countries will resolutely defend
#multilateralism
and
#UN
-led world order, Wang Yi says at ongoing press conference with
#Russia
FM Sergey Lavrov
When I saw posts claiming arrest of
#JimmyLai
and raid
#AppleDaily
hurt freedom of press in
#HongKong
, I won't waste time arguing, especially today. August 13 is a special day for
#GlobalTimes
reporter. On August 13, 2019, I saw my colleague
#FuGuohao
brutally besieged..1/2
#JackMa
showed up for the first time since Chinese regulator imposed record fine on
#Alibaba
for antitrust cases. He appeared at an online conference on Wednesday with
#Putin
without giving a speech.
In a rare harsh tone, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticized
#US
saying that it betrays its word on
#Taiwan
question and some US politicians blatantly play with the fire, becoming the enemy of 1.4 billion Chinese people, who won’t have a good end.
#Pelosi
#BREAKING
: Pro-establishment
#HongKong
legislator Junius Ho was attacked in Tuen Mun Wednesday morning and sent to the hospital. Police confirmed. #香港
#Honduras
President
@XiomaraCastroZ
just arrived in
#Beijing
. The Honduran Embassy in
#China
is expected to hold its opening ceremony during Castro's visit to Beijing. And a China-Honduras trade and investment forum will be held during the visit.
I’m in Yichang now, my hometown, city in
#Hubei
that first hit by
#COVID19
in 2020, about 300 kilometers from
#Wuhan
. Normal life is back, local residents enjoy their holidays with night BBQ, street snacks. I know how hard those days were. Hope
#India
can beat the virus soon.
#Breaking
: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit
#France
,
#Serbia
and
#Hungary
from May 5 to 10, which will be the first visit of Xi to
#Europe
in 5 years. The visit comes at the time when the
#China
-
#EU
relations are at a critical moment.
This heartbreaking story goes viral on today’s social media: a 6-year-old boy stayed inside a house where his grandpa had died for some days amid city lockdown in Shiyan, a city in epicenter
#Hubei
.Social workers just found him, asked him why not go out to ask for help..
#COVID19
#Russian
President
#Putin
starts his day early, he arrived in Beijing at 4 am Thursday morning, and is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi. Russian media reported he will also visit northeastern city Harbin to attend
#China
-
#Russia
expo and visit Harbin Institute of Technology
Battalion commander Chen Hongjun who sacrificed his lives in the Galwan Valley skirmish in June 2020 is on the list of July 1 Medal. “One should make accompliments wherever he is needed by the Party,” Chen said before.
#China
#CPC100
#India
#JUSTIN
: Chinese President Xi holds a video conference with German Chancellor Merkel and French president Macron on Monday, and leaders agree on upholding multilateralism and cooperation
#China
#EU
On live now,
#China
has vaccinated 22.76 million people against
#covid
on high-risk populations as of Tuesday. It seems that the country can't achieve its goal of vaccinating 50 million people before the Spring Festival, as it's only less than two weeks left.
World's first 600km/h high-speed maglev train roll off the production line today. A journey from Beijing to Shanghai takes 5.5 hours by high-speed rail, and will only be about 2.5 hours by high-speed maglev train, and it only takes 20 mins from Shanghai to Hangzhou.
A bus in red with banners to celebrate the 100th anniversary of founding of
#CPC
, is now seen at
#HongKong
streets, which is rare scene as for a long time, local residents in HK have few channels to know more about CPC. It might be the time to change. Pic: via social networks
#JUSTIN
:
#China
office of
#BCI
— NGO behind of the online spat over
#Xinjiang
cotton — says in a statement that there has been zero forced labor case found in XJ since 2012
#breaking
:
#HK
media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and six former opposition lawmakers have been convicted of organising and taking part in an unauthorised anti-government protest in 2019.
When asked about
@SecPompeo
comments on South China Sea,
@zlj517
said at today’s press conference:”today is Friday, I don’t want to waste time to refute such claim,” this reminds me of a video of former top leader 👇
As the 1st female president in Honduras,
@XiomaraCastroZ
has been unifying and leading the people of
#Honduras
since the inauguration, who fulfilled the commitment in establishing diplomatic relations with China & made historical decision, underscoring firm political will: Xi
¡Atención pueblo hondureño!
En breves momentos la Presidenta
@XiomaraCastroZ
se reunirá con su homólogo el Presidente de la República Popular China, Xi Jinping. 🇭🇳🤝🇨🇳
#XiomaraEnChina
#XiJinping
delivered an important message amid rising tensions in the
#Taiwan
Straits on Saturday’s gathering to commemorate Revolution of 1911. Reunification through peacefully way meets the best interests, secessionists doomed to fail, it’s
#China
’s internal affairs
Another big thing today:
#China
and 14 Asian Pacific countries signed long-awaited
#RCEP
deal today, which is called as "historical and milestone" deal signaling the victory of multilaterism. Experts forecast that the ASEAN region will be the first one recovered from
#COVID19