Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing on Tuesday “the United States is not a party to the South China Sea dispute”. China claims most of the South China Sea, while…
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Communist Party members told to stay off the links as China shuts down 111 golf courses
China has launched a renewed crackdown on golf, closing 111 courses in an effort to conserve water and land, and telling members of the ruling Communist Party to stay off the links. The state-run Xinhua…
White House warns China on trade, South China Sea
Washington: The White House warned China on Monday that the United States will defend “international interests” in the South China Sea and that trade must be a “two-way street.” At his first formal daily briefing,…
China will protect South Sea sovereignty
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a news briefing on Tuesday “the United States is not a party to the South China Sea dispute”. China claims most of the South China Sea, while Taiwan,…
TRUMP IN ITS SIGHTS? Moscow accuses China of deploying missiles ready to hit the US
Trump scolded by China over islands as tensions at breaking point Mr Sivkov told Russian Government owned TASS news agency: “This is an inter-continental class missile with an effective range of ten thousand to twelve…
China orders US to 'act with caution' over South China Sea
China urged the U.S. to speak and act cautiously on the South … one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. At a regular news briefing Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying repeated Beijing’s longstanding…
China boycotts Japan hotel chain APA over Nanjing Massacre denials
On Tuesday, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua described the incident as “only the tip of the iceberg of Japan’s ultra-right wing’s efforts to revise the nation’s war history.” “A small group of Japanese individuals are…
China continues its internet crackdown with new rules for VPNs
The physical version kept out invaders, and the digital version is keeping out the internet — at least, the parts of it that China doesn’t want its citizens to see. The Great Wall served its…
China, Philippines to roll out $3.7B in co-operation projects
BEIJING — China and the Philippines have agreed on $3.7 billion worth … the projects are aimed at “improving people’s living standards,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported. No specific details on the projects were…
China swings back at golf, shutting down 111 courses
BEIJING — China has launched a renewed crackdown on golf, closing 111 courses in an effort to conserve water and land, and telling members of the ruling Communist Party to stay off the links. The…
China closes over 100 golf courses for land, water conservation
China has launched a renewed crackdown on golf, closing 111 courses in an effort to conserve water and land, and telling members of the ruling Communist Party to stay off the links. The state-run Xinhua…
12 bodies recovered after landslide buries hotel in China
Authorities in China say they’ve recovered the bodies of 12 people killed … and debris after the Friday night landslide in Hunan province. The official Xinhua News Agency said 3,000 cubic metres of debris tumbled…
Xi positions China as a champion of free trade in the Trump era
While an eager audience recorded the moment on their cellphones, Xi Jinping spent nearly an hour expounding on the state of the world, and China’s rising role in it. Here stood the authoritarian successor to…