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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade released an update on international travel sanctions on Tuesday featuring a sinister message for Australian travelers heading to China.
Beijing's national security office was inaugurated in Hong Kong today, a week after China's central government imposed a tough new law on the city that critics view as a deterioration of freedoms.
A Chinese publication has claimed the Australian economy will be under threat if the Federal Government moves ahead with its plan to create a 'safe haven' for Hong Kong residents.
Misha Rackcliff Hunt (inset), 27, from Charleston, found her Dalmatian puppy, Emma Roo, online after she was saved by a non-profit organization. The puppy was just eight weeks old when she was rescued from the dog-meat slaughterhouse in Xi'An, China, where her legs were cut off (left). Her ears had also been shaved down and part of her tail was missing. It is thought that all of this was done with no anesthetic because people in China believe that this produces adrenaline which makes the meat more tender. Emma Roo was abandoned by her original owners because of a small toe defect. She was initially given a new home in China but after two years, Emma Roo was returned to a local clinic - which turned to Florida-based non-profit Dalmatian Rescue for help. Misha found Emma Roo on the Dalmatian Rescue website and quickly fell in love.
Chinese county launches emergency response for the PLAGUE after a three-year-old boy was infected with the Black Death
China found a new case of bubonic plague in Menghai county, Yunnan province Boy, three, was confirmed to have been infected with the disease on Sunday Officials made inspections, imposed quarantines and tested patients with feverCame after two people died of the plague in China's Inner Mongolia last month
Authorities from a south-western Chinese county have recorded a new case of bubonic plague over the weekend as officials have activated an emergency response to prevent the disease from spreading.
A three-year-old boy from a remote village in Menghai country of Yunnan province was confirmed to have infected with the bubonic plague on Sunday, according to state media.
It comes as China’s Inner Mongolia region, near the Chinese border with Mongolia, has reported two deaths caused by the plague in August, prompting the authorities to impose partial lockdowns and quarantine residents.
Authorities from a south-western Chinese county have recorded a new case of bubonic plague over the weekend as officials have activated an emergency response for the disease. The file photo shows workers disinfecting a railway station in Kunming, Yunnan on February 4
A three-year-old boy from a remote village in Menghai country of Yunnan province was confirmed to have infected with the bubonic plague on Sunday, according to state medi
China is also facing the threat of the disease spreading from its neighbouring country Mongolia, which have declared at least 17 out of all 21 provinces in the country are at risk of bubonic plague.
Bubonic plague, known as the 'Black Death' in the Middle Ages, is one of the most devastating diseases in history, having killed around 100million people in the 14th century.
The Menghai authorities launched a level-four emergency response on Friday after reporting the young patient as a suspected case of bubonic plague on Friday, according to a notice.
The statement said that the patient had mild symptoms and was in stable condition after treatment.
The officials did not specify how the child had been infected but said that a rat plague had occurred in the county on September 21 after three rats were found dead for unknown reasons
The officials did not specify how the child had been infected but said that a rat plague had occurred in the county on September 21 after three rats were found dead for unknown reasons in a village.
The boy was diagnosed during a county-wide screening for the disease following the rat plague, said the notice.
He was confirmed to have been infected with the bubonic plague yesterday, according to state media, citing the Yunnan health authorities.
National and provincial officials had arrived in Menghai as part of the government’s emergency response for the plague while teams of medical workers made inspections, imposed quarantines and screened suspected patients with fevers.
The news comes after China has reported two deaths caused by the plague since January.
On August 6, the Baotou city health commission confirmed a resident died of a different form of the disease four days earlier.
The city of Baotou, in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said the victim had contracted the enteric plague.
China is also facing the threat of the disease spreading from its neighbouring country Mongolia, which have declared at least 17 out of all 21 provinces in the country are at risk of bubonic plague. The picture shows a health worker conducting anti-plague disinfection in Kosh-Agach district, a municipality in Russia bordering Mongolia
A second victim died from multiple organ failure in a case of the bubonic plague, the Bayan Nur health commission of Inner Mongolia said on the following day.
The bubonic plague, one of the four forms of the disease, is one of the most devastating diseases in history.
The enteric plague, also known as the pharyngeal plague, attacks a person's digestive system and can arise as a result of exposure to infectious aerosols or by ingestion of infected meat.
The other forms of the disease are the pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection, and the septicemic plague, which affects a person's blood systems.
China has largely eradicated the plague, but occasional cases are still reported.
The last major known outbreak of the disease was in 2009 when several people died in the town of Ziketan in Qinghai province on the Tibetan Plateau.
However, British health experts have said that no evidence shows bubonic plague can be passed from one person to another, therefore it is unlikely to trigger another health crisis.
China claims Donald Trump has 'paid the price' for his COVID-19 'gamble' after the President and Melania both tested positive
The editor of state paper Global Times reacted to Trump's diagnosis with jeers The major nationalistic tabloid serves as a mouthpiece for the Communist partyHe said Trump and first lady 'have paid the price' for downplaying the pandemic'The news shows the severity of the US' pandemic situation,' he tweeted today
The editor of an influential Chinese state-run newspaper has mocked Donald Trump after the US President and first lady Melania Trump both tested positive for the coronavirus.
Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a major Chinese tabloid and mouthpiece of the Communist Party, said that President Trump and his wife 'have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19'.
He claimed that the diagnosis revealed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in the US and would sabotage Trump's upcoming re-election.
Hu Xijin (pictured in file photo taken on June 5, 2019), the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a major Chinese tabloid and mouthpiece of the Communist Party, said that President Trump and his wife 'paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19'
China has taunted Donald Trump after the US President and first lady Melania Trump had both tested positive for the coronavirus. The US President and first lady were pictured in May
The Chinese senior journalist reacted to the news with jeers, claiming that President Trump and the first lady are paying for the price for downplaying the coronavirus pandemic.Hu's mocking comment comes after the US leader confirmed the news on Thursday evening, tweeting: 'Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!'
It comes as the president's top aide Hope Hicks also contracted the virus after traveling with Trump on Air Force One and Marine One multiple times over the last week.
The Chinese senior journalist reacted to the news with jeers, claiming that President Trump and the first lady are paying for the price for downplaying the coronavirus pandemic.
He wrote in a tweet this morning: 'President Trump and the first lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19.
'The news shows the severity of the US' pandemic situation. It will impose a negative impact on the image of Trump and the US, and may also negatively affect his reelection,' Hu said.
The Chinese tabloid has repeatedly slammed Washington for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
It branded the US as a 'barbaric and greedy' country that 'doesn't care about humanitarianism' in an article published in June.
The newspaper also claimed that 'the US government has failed its people and also failed the world'.
Trump, who has boasted of how he brought US markets to record highs, revealed he had the virus in a tweet shortly before 6am UK time.
The US president is 74 years old, putting him at higher risk of serious complications from the virus. A statement from the White House doctor said both the president and first lady are 'well at this time' but did not say if either have symptoms.
If Trump becomes seriously ill, there are constitutional procedures that would allow Vice President Mike Pence to assume power temporarily, just weeks before the November 3 election.
But if Trump suffers mild or no symptoms, the president would be able to tout his recovery as evidence that the virus is a less grave threat than many believe.
Sixty one per cent of people in 14 major world nations said China had done a bad job of handling coronavirus, compared to 84 per cent who agreed that America had done a bad job
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Qin and Han dynasties relics on display at the National Museum of ChinaBy Lin Qi | chinadaily.com.cn | 2017-09-25 10:21 
[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]
The Civilizations of Qin and Han, the exhibition now on at the National Museum of China, celebrates the glory of the two dynasties (221 BC-AD 220) in terms of politics, economy, arts and culture.
More than 300 artifacts from 30 museums and institutions across the country are on show through Nov 30.
Part of the display were previously shown at Age of Empires held earlier this year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the rest are on loan from the permanent displays at prestigious museums in cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Xi’an.
The exhibits include objects that people are quite familiar with, including the Terracotta Warriors and a jade stem cup.
Also there are lesser-shown pieces which, however, bear even more important information, such as a small piece of map on paper dating to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 24), while paper is traditionally known as an invention of Cai Lun of Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220).
I Reshot Old Photos Of China To Show How It Changed In 100 Years
How China has changed.
When most people travel, they think of travelling in space. Whether it’s hiking through a national park or learning about a distant culture, it’s usually about the destination. This time, I decided to travel in time. Here are some scenes from China as they looked over the past hundred years. The old pictures were pulled from various books and websites. I then re-took each of them, matching the angle and focal length as closely as possible.
It’s interesting to see what humans are able to change and what humans are utterly incapable of changing. On one hand, a city may rise out of nowhere in just a matter of a decade or two, showing how powerful China’s economy has become, and how advanced engineering has enabled us to build so rapidly. At the same time, the profile of the mountains and rivers don’t budge, a constant reminder that we are still powerless compared to Mother Nature.
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Lanzhou (1930; 2016)
Lanzhou, China was a major stop along the Silk Road, once a walled city that is no longer walled. Almost everything has changed except for the mountains in the background and Yellow River in the foreground. We as humans don’t quite have the ability to change the mountains (old picture by unknown; new picture – D. Venkatraman)
Xi’an city (1921; 2016)
Xi’an once was the ancient imperial capital of China, and the eastern terminus of the Silk Road that runs all the way to Istanbul. Xi’an’s city wall is amazingly preserved, with a little modern flair (old picture by Osvald Siren; new picture – D. Venkatraman)
Yibin (1940; 2016)
Yibin, China is a city of 4 million residents situated at the confluence of the Min and Jinsha rivers, which then became the Yangtze (Changjiang) river. Yibin is often known as the “first town” on the Yangtze river. Today, Yibin is perhaps best known for Wuliangye, an alcoholic spirit producer which is the city’s largest employer and comprises 60% of Yibin’s GDP (old picture by unknown; new picture – D. Venkatraman)
Wuhan (1960; 2016)
Students from a martial arts school practice Shaolin Kung Fu in Dengfeng, Henan Province.
People burn joss paper money as they pray at a public cemetery during Qingming Festival or Tomb Sweeping Festival in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province.
Beautiful cherry blossom is seen along a road in Gui'an New District, Guizhou Province.
This is dangerous people need to be warned.
Fears of US-style opioid death surge as cocaine hits Australian streets laced with drug from China that's so deadly just FOUR GRAINS of it can kill you
Cocaine has hit Australian streets laced with the highly deadly chemical fentanyl Drug dealers have started using the chemical to cut with other illicit drugs Warning comes after a man died and two women were hospitalised in Sydney
Authorities fear a US-style opioid death surge after cocaine reached Australian streets laced with fentanyl - a drug so deadly it takes an amount equivalent to just four grains of salt to kill.
The NSW Health Department issued a warning to the public, saying the opioids fentanyl and acetylfentanyl have 'recently been identified as likely adulterants in cocaine or ketamine'.
Fentanyl is used legally by doctors for pain relief, but dealers have started using the chemical to cut other drugs.
Fentanyl is used legally by doctors for pain relief, but dealers have started using the chemical to cut other drugs
The Department told Australians to look out for symptoms of drowsiness or skin going blue if people have taken cocaine.
The drug has killed tens of thousands of people in the United States, prompting President Donald Trump to call on China to declare fentanyl a 'controlled substance' and stop pumping it out.
NSW Poisons Information Centre Professor Andrew Dawson said people in NSW who recently took what they believed to be cocaine or ketamine developed toxicity from acetylfentanyl and fentanyl in NSW.
'We've seen several people recently where acetylfentanyl was taken unknowingly and was associated with serious harm,' Prof Dawson told The Daily Telegraph.
'It's important that people realise an overdose can occur with very small doses of fentanyl-related substances.'
The warning comes a week after a man died and two women were hospitalised after overdosing on cocaine in Lidcombe, in Sydney's south west.
Health authorities haven't determined if fentanyl led to the incidents.
Dr John Coyne from Australian Strategic Policy said it's 'incredibly difficult' for the Chinese government to be able to control and regulate the pharmaceutical industry.
'We need to work with the Chinese government to better regulate their chemical and pharmaceutical industries in mainland China to prevent these sorts of drugs from being produced there and moved around the globe,' he said.
The warning comes a week after a man died and two women were hospitalised after overdosing on cocaine in Lidcombe, in Sydney's south west
The Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia province, has had its bright green domes and golden minarets removed. Images shared online by Christina Scott, the UK's deputy head of mission in China, show that the mosque has been stripped of its colour and decorations. China's ruling Communist Party has carried out a widespread clampdown on all religious institutions in recent years.
Images shared online by Christina Scott, the UK's deputy head of mission in China, show that the mosque has been stripped of its colour and decorations
The Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia province, has had its bright green domes and golden minarets removed. Above, mosque pictured before
A Chinese propaganda outlet has warned Australia it will suffer further economic pain if it pushes back against the Communist Party regime and continues to side with Washington.
The vase was initially estimated to be worth between £500,000 and £700,000. But the winning bid was £2.23million, made by a Chinese collector over the phone.
The gold and yellow porcelain container was made during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor
The vase is decorated with lotus flowers and has gold enamelled dragon handles. It carries the emperor’s six-character seal mark in red on its base