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BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday said the United States should stop fanning the flame on Taiwan-related issues and not send wrong signals to the "Taiwan independence" forces.

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the comment in response to a U.S. Department of State spokesperson's remarks in support of the establishment of a "Taiwanese representative office" in Lithuania.

BEIJING, Nov 22 (APP): President of Pakistan Sichuan Chamber of Commerce, Li Hongwu said that the China Pakistan Economic and Cultural Exchange Incubation center in Chengdu would help Pakistani traders to explore business opportunities in China.

He aims to make the center the first stop for Pakistani people when they first arrive in Southwest China. Here they can quickly get help, learn business opportunities in China, and find sale channels in China for their products, he told China Economic Net.

BEIJING, Nov 22 (APP): A Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Monday said that a special freight train loaded more than 1,000 tons of aid material and living production materials for Afghan people has left from Wuxi Station in Xinjiang, China to Afghanistan.

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- At the international arena, Washington has long been well-known for its hypocrisy of saying one thing while doing another. As for Washington's policies on China, its actions stand in stark contrast to its words in the following aspects:

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BEIJING (AP) — China reduced the level of its diplomatic relations with Lithuania to below ambassador level Sunday in retaliation for the Baltic nation allowing Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory, to open a representative office.

China earlier expelled the Lithuanian ambassador, reflecting its intense sensitivity over the status of Taiwan, which Beijing says has no right to conduct foreign affairs. China also withdrew its own ambassador from Lithuania.

BEIJING, Nov 20 (APP): A new report published by Antiy Labs, one of China’s renowned cybersecurity companies, disclosed an active hacker team whose members are based in Delhi and has been launching cyber attacks against government agencies and defense departments in China and Pakistan.

The report conducted a comprehensive analysis of the cyber attacks launched by the organization called You Xiang (baby elephant in English) in South Asia, revealing its target, technology and equipment, and exposing the attackers who wear “invisible clothes” and hide behind screens.

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The United States has flunked a nearly two-year COVID-19 pandemic stress test and exposed its institutional failure which added people's distrust and anger on the country's the pandemic response, said a columnist of The New York Times.

"The pandemic has proved to be a nearly two-year stress test that the United States flunked, with an already distrustful populace exposed to a level of institutional failure that added fuel to the angry battles over how to respond," said Zeynep Tufekci, an opinion columnist, in an article on the newspaper on Thursday.

HONG KONG, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Washington's push to encircle China economically will likely "collapse in on itself" or ultimately backfire, experts have said in an article in the South China Morning Post.

As noted in the article published Friday, the United States, Europe and Japan have agreed to renew their trilateral partnership to put China under more pressure.

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The latest COVID-19 resurgence in China has entered its final stage, a health official said Saturday.

So far, eight of the provincial-level regions affected by the latest resurgence have registered no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases for at least 14 consecutive days, said Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission, at a press conference.

BEIJING, Nov 19 (APP): Pakistan Ambassador to China, Moin ul Haque held a meeting with Cheng Guoping, External Security Commissioner of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs here on Friday.

During the meeting, both sides held extensive discussions on overall ties between Pakistan and China and also exchanged views for further strengthening security, economic and cultural relations between the two countries.

In his remarks, Cheng Guoping said that Pakistan and China are all-weather strategic cooperative partners and iron-brothers.