China’s 2025 Spring Festival travel rush, the world’s largest annual human migration, began Tuesday, with officials projecting a record 9 billion trips over the 40-day period known as chunyun. Centered on Lunar New Year, which falls on January 29, the season runs through February 12, culminating in the Lantern Festival.
A Chinese-state-affiliated news agency implored Israel to exercise "restraint" with Iran as the country is recovering from the recent barrage of missiles.
A member of the influential Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee suggested that China should lift all restrictions on the child number laws can have and by extending equal recognition and benefits to the children of single parents.
The Chinese report also claims that the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and cybersecurity firm 360 have discovered Trojan horse programs or plug-ins related to the CIA in recent cyberattacks targeting China.
The article from Russia's RT News and China's Global Times are critical of the American political system, warning of further chaos in society, and take a disrespectful tone towards the United States over the indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Despite high vaccination rates in China, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation projects that the country will see an "explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023," with peak cases and approximately 322,000 deaths expected around April 1, when around one-third of the population is projected to have been infected.
