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Anti-dumping probes on barley justified: experts Australia’s “under-the-table subsidies” on barley through its tax system have harmed China’s grain sector and violated trade rules, which might be the cause of the extension of China’s anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations, experts said Monday, following media reports that Canberra voiced concern over potential tariffs on its barley. Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham was …

Beijing started on Monday promoting a smart bracelet that can measure a student’s temperature as some schools reopened and students began returning to class. The city tested the intelligent temperature monitoring device among students in high schools and middle schools in five districts. Looking like a fitness wristband, the thermometer bracelet has a built-in sensor that can automatically take a …

The US government’s new guidelines tightening visa regulations for Chinese journalists will deepen rancor between the two countries, and it is a reflection of the US’s “lack of confidence on its own development,” noted Chinese observers, adding that the move will trigger further retaliatory measures from Beijing. The regulation issued by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, …

China’s Heilongjiang Province has been classified as a low-risk region. The provincial COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control headquarters adjusted the epidemic risk level in Linkou County from medium to low level on Thursday. So far, all 125 cities and counties in Heilongjiang are classified as low-risk areas. By Wednesday, the province had reported a total of 558 locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases …

Chinese researchers have detected COVID-19 in semen samples from male coronavirus patients. Whether or not the disease is sexually transmissible is unknown. Researchers collected semen samples from 38 male COVID-19 patients. Test results revealed six patients’ samples tested positive for COVID-19, according to a report published on JAMA Network Open on Thursday. The six patients aged between 20 and 60. …

Cao Yuan, a 24-year-old Chinese scientist who has been called “a genius born after 1995,” climbed Sina Weibo’s hot topic lists on Friday as two papers he had co-written were published in Nature magazine on May 6, concerning research on magic-angle grapheme. It was his second double Nature publication. Chinese netizens are amazed by his knowledge and achievements in the …

Chinese central government Friday issued guidelines on normalized epidemic prevention and control measures, including requirements on wearing masks in public places, promotion of health codes and allowing entertainment places to reopen with a reservation system and client-limiting measures. The guidelines were released on the website of the State Council, China’s cabinet. The State Council said that epidemic prevention and control …

Twenty-one years after a brutal missile attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999, Chinese people cannot forget the sorrow and humiliation it caused, flooding to the internet to commemorate the martyrs and slamming American hegemony and its incompetence, especially in light of the US’ “pathetic” COVID-19 response. Chinese netizens started to commemorate the martyrs online from early Friday …

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Marine Corps is striving to become a multidimensional force that operates beyond oceans and fights in all terrains around the world to serve as a fast-reacting force to protect China’s growing overseas interests, in addition to the conventional task of conducting amphibious landing missions, like securing islands and reefs close to the mainland, …

The most influential annual prize for US journalists has once again showed the double standards and bias of mainstream Western media, and it has lost its reputation among the Chinese public, as the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography was awarded to Reuters, which delivered extremely one-sided information about the Hong Kong turmoil in 2019. The awarded works …