The death toll from a virus in China has risen to 56 and the number of people infected across the country is nearing 2,000, authorities said Sunday.

All passengers on Etihad flights arriving into Abu Dhabi from China will be screened for coronavirus to limit the potential of a global outbreak of the fast-spreading mystery bug.

Olympic qualifying games for the women’s soccer tournament were moved Wednesday from Wuhan, China, because of an outbreak of a viral illness.

The number of cases of a new virus has risen to 440 in China and the death toll has risen to 9, Chinese health authorities said Wednesday.

Micron secured some gains from the China deal but it may end up suffering bigger losses from the broader U.S.-China battle.

The number of people infected by a mystery SARS-like virus that has killed two people in China is likely hundreds more than officially reported, researchers have said on Friday.

At least six people have died and 16 others have been injured after a massive sinkhole swallowed up a bus which was picking up passengers in northwestern China.

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said his country aims to create stronger ties between Europe and the United States. He believes that without the US, the EU would not survive “hybrid attacks from Russia and the growing influence of China”.

In a meeting between Head of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) Eskandar Momeni and Chinese State Councilor Zhao Kezhi in China, the two sides explored avenues of enhancing cooperation between the two countries in the fight against illicit drugs.

Fresh from a landslide reelection victory, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen met Sunday with the de facto US ambassador to Taipei, as China warned that countries should stick with recognizing communist-ruled Beijing as the rightful government of ”One China,” including Taiwan.

Beijing called on the international community to respect the notion that there is just one China, after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen secured a second term in Saturday’s election.

The US and China are expected to sign their “phase one” deal on 15 January in the White House. Beijing-based author Thomas W. Pauken II has explained how the sides reached the consensus, what the “phase two” talks would be about and why the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani may affect the development of US-China trade negotiations.

Ups and downs in China-US relations continued to grip Chinese public opinion through 2019. While people were visibly more divided in their stance on whether China’s surrounding environment is conducive to the nation’s peaceful rise, the overall mind-set of Chinese people has become rational and diversified.

Egyptian minister of military production, recently announced the signing of a deal with the China POLY Group to build a factory to manufacture car tires in Egypt.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message hailed his talks in China and expressed hope for development of strategic partnership between two countries.

On Friday, December 27, military forces of China, Russia and Iran began a four-day naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean.