China's Vice Premier Sun Chunlan says Covid-19 outbreak is at a "relatively" level as millions of city-dwellers travel to home towns for the Lunar New Year holiday that officially begins on Saturday.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' visit "will focus on an in-depth exchange of views on bilateral relations and regional and international issues of common concern", China's foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin says.
The decision comes after a surge in cases and "limited epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data available on these cases," Canadian Health Ministry says.
Russian leader says he expects his Chinese counterpart to make a state visit soon to publicly show Beijing's solidarity amid Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine.
Current Chinese ambassador to Washington DC succeeds long-time senior diplomat, Wang Yi, who is expected to take a bigger role in the powerful 24-member Politburo.
"The current four-month military service is not enough to meet the fast and ever-changing situation," says President Tsai Ing-wen.
Chinese leader acknowledges that nation is "facing a new situation" in dealing with the deadly virus as it experiences the biggest surge in infections after abruptly lifting restrictions that weighed down on the economy.
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the importance for development of bilateral ties in a telegraph message to his Australian counterpart ahead of a meeting between the countries' foreign ministers in Beijing.
Delegation will follow up on meeting "to continue responsibly managing the competition between our two countries and to explore potential areas of cooperation," says State Department.
Chinese leader calls for granting Palestine "full membership" in United Nations and says Beijing "supports the two-state solution and the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital."
"China will continue to firmly support the GCC countries in maintaining their own security... and build a collective security framework for the Gulf," says President Xi Jinping at China-GCC summit.
China's foreign ministry describes Xi's trip as the "largest-scale diplomatic activity between China and the Arab world" raising concerns in Washington DC.
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