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BEIJING, Aug 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discussed concerns about restrictions on American businesses including Intel (INTC.O) and Micron (MU.O) with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao on Monday in a meeting where the two countries also agreed to launch an export control enforcement information dialogue.

The pair also discussed China's restrictions on gallium and germanium exports in wide-ranging and candid talks that lasted more than two hours, followed by a two-hour lunch, according to a brief comments from Raimondo and the Commerce Department.

BEIJING, Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo arrived in Beijing late on Sunday for a four-day visit aimed at boosting business ties between the world's two largest economies while declaring American national security trade measures off-limits for debate.

"If you wanted to put a tagline to the trip and the mission, it’s protect what we must and promote where we can," Raimondo told reporters on Friday before departing for China. "I'm not going to pull my punches next week when I am there but I intend to be practical."

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Northern Chile at 14:02:09 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 100.7 km, was initially determined to be at 20.52 degrees south latitude and 69.24 degrees west longitude.

BEIJING, Aug 25 (APP): The 20th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO), an annual trade show that aims to facilitate economic cooperation between China and ASEAN, will be held from September 16 to 19 in Nanning, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with the exhibition’s scale bouncing back to pre-virus levels, Chinese officials said.

BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) - China's abrupt move to dismantle its strict COVID-19 regime, which unleashed the virus onto its 1.4 billion residents, could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in the following two months, a new U.S. study shows.

The study by the federally funded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle was taken from a sample of mortality data published by some universities in China and internet searches.

BEIJING, Aug 24 (APP): “These days, the volume of meat export is about to go up after China allowed Pakistani meat to be imported. The Chinese government has given some specifications and standard operating procedures for boiled and heat-treated meat,” said Umair Ahmad Khan, representative of Hardoi Livestock and Meat Company at Pakistan’s first International Food and Agriculture Exhibition recently held in Karachi.

The event attracted more than 400 delegations from 55 countries, while China has the largest delegation participating in the Expo, CEN reported on Thursday.

BEIJING, August 22. /TASS/: The meeting of the leaders of the BRICS member countries in South Africa will become an important milestone in the history of the association and will strengthen solidarity among developing countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping said upon his arrival in South Africa, where the XV BRICS Summit is being held.

BEIJING, August 22. /TASS/:  The decision by the Japanese authorities to discharge water from the Fukushima-1 emergency nuclear power plant into the sea is a mistake, and China will be forced to take all necessary retaliatory measures, the country’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said.

"China strongly insists that Japan should rectify this wrong decision and abandon its plan to discharge radioactive water into the sea," he told a regular briefing, "The Chinese side will take all necessary measures to protect marine ecology, safeguard food safety and public health."

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for measures to mitigate the effects of this year’s disastrous flooding which has left scores dead and inflicted massive damage on crops, homes and infrastructure, including in and around Beijing.

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at 1316 GMT on Thursday, said the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 4.46 degrees north latitude and 96.43 degrees east longitude.