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Covid had a huge impact on the global economy – will it bounce back in 2021? Hamish McRae © Provided by The Independent We get things wrong. If this year has taught us anything it is how woefully wrong everyone’s predictions for 2020 have been. True, missing the only thing that really mattered can be excused because of its rarity. Things that only happen once in a century are hard to call. But even when the gravity of the pandemic did become apparent not many people got th...

Text by João Miguel Barcellos The third volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has been published by the Foreign Languages Press in both Chinese and English and distributed to more than 70 countries and regions around the world.  By Li He/Xinhua Thanks to its reform and opening up after 1978, China has become an economic powerhouse and a diplomatic giant. The nation has targeted development of agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense as the instrument to transform the...

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Adjust font size: More than 10 international social media influencers visited a Beijing Winter Olympics competition venue on Wednesday. The event was part of the ongoing "2020 Silk Road Rediscovery Tour of Beijings New Development," an event sponsored by the Information Office of Beijing Municipal Peoples Government and organized by CRI Online of China Media Group. The influencers visited the snow slope in Shougang Industrial Park, the only outdoor snow sports venue in downtown Beijing. Four g...

>> when does a joke cross a line. lets start with a major new development, nsa leaker edward snowden has withdrawn his request for asylum in russia after president vladimir putin put a surprising condition on snowden, stop leaking information harmful to the u.s.. snowden is bashing the obama administration. cnns phil black is live in moscow with more. good morning, phil. >> reporter: good morning, chris. there was that one condition put there by russian president vladimir putin and as youve me...