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Ludovic Ehret

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Ludovic Ehret

Ludovic Ehret is a journalist for AFP.

A doctor draws blood from a patient’s finger at a hospital emergency department in Shanghai, China, on November 14, 2023. There has been a spike in influenza and mycoplasma pneumonia. (Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
BEIJING

WHO asks China for more data on latest respiratory illnesses outbreak

China’s National Health Commission said last week that the spread was due to the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions and the circulation of known pathogens

  • Ludovic Ehret
4 min read
An employee of the China Manned Space Agency takes photos in front of a board showing the countrys astronauts after a pre-launch press conference for the Shenzhou-16 mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on May 29, 2023 in Jiuquan, China. The astronauts will travel on the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft carried by a Long March-2F rocket to Chinas Tiangong Space Station from the Gobi Desert on May 30 and will stay for six months, relieving the crew that arrived there late in 2022. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
CHINA MOON BASE

China to send its first civilian into space on Tuesday

Teams of astronauts will do scientific experiments and test new technologies as part of the country’s ‘space dream’

  • Ludovic Ehret
2 min read
China produces more than 95% of the world’s rare earths, and the United States relies on the Asian superpower for upwards of 80% of its imports. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)
CHINA

China accuses US of ‘naked economic terrorism’

The world’s top two economies are at loggerheads as trade talks have apparently stalled

  • Ludovic Ehret
3 min read
China’s military budget is “disproportional in the sense that the economies of Southeast Asia do not have the resources to keep pace”
CHINA

China’s defence spending to accelerate in 2018

With the second largest military budget in the world, China’s president continues with his plan to build ‘a world class fighting force’

  • Ludovic Ehret
4 min read