MANILA, Philippines – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to issue a formal order declaring a sprawling lagoon in a disputed South China Sea shoal a maritime sanctuary where Filipinos and Chinese will be prohibited…
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The Latest: Philippine Leader Looks to China-Led Development
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has promised his Chinese counterpart that he will align his foreign policy toward China-led Asian economic development, further reinforcing his shift toward China amid his hostile stance toward the U.S. Duterte…
China state media warn Trump against renouncing free trade deals
“Turning his trade-bashing campaign talks into actual policies could bash any hope that the Asia-Pacific will finally have its much-wanted free trade deal,” said a commentary in the official Xinhua news agency … the exclusion…
China clamps down on Net
China’s leaders and official media are pushing for greater control of the internet and technology products as tensions surrounding a far-reaching Chinese cybersecurity law loom over a gathering this week of the world’s leading tech…
China, US must avoid eying each other with suspicion during Trump presidency, says Beijing’s ambassador in Washington
China and the United States must avoid being too suspicious of each other’s strategic intentions, China’s ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday while looking ahead to the US presidency of Donald Trump. Trump…
Police bust B.C. crime ring accused of reselling stolen baby formula in China
Fell called it a “predatory” operation at a news conference Thursday … Sellers can pocket many times what they originally paid by moving the product to China, where consumers pay up to $90 per container,…
China Doubles Down on Internet Control Ahead of Conference
China’s leaders and official media are pushing for greater control of the internet and technology products as tensions surrounding a far-reaching Chinese cybersecurity law loom over a gathering this week of the world’s leading tech…
China tells Trump climate change is not a hoax and anyway America mentioned it first
China couldn’t have invented global warming as a hoax to harm U.S. competitiveness because it was Donald Trump’s Republican predecessors who started climate negotiations in the 1980s, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said. U.S.…
China bans 'fatty' Kim Jong Un nickname on websites
It’s especially popular among young, irreverent Chinese who tend to look down on their country’s would-be ally. Relations between China and North Korea have been strained by the North’s nuclear weapons program, which China has…
Unswayed by public outcry, China executes villager who killed party chief with nail gun for revenge
On Tuesday, he was executed in the northern city of Shijiazhuang, the official state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Jia, who worked on construction sites, had become a popular symbol of the injustice faced by many…
China elections: Independent candidates fight for the ballot
China’s constitution allows independent candidates to run in local elections but it is a futile exercise for those who dare to get their names on the ballot. In the heart of Beijing’s old alleyways, the…
China traffic dance video goes viral
A video showing a group of women dancing next to their cars in northern China has gone viral. The group apparently started dancing to pass the time while stuck for hours in a traffic jam.…
China Looks to Churchill (or Was It Palmerston?) to Decode Trump
“I think two old sayings can best explain what I see ahead for future China-U.S. relations,” Sun Jiwen, spokesman for China’s Ministry of Commerce, said at a briefing in Beijing Thursday. “There are no eternal…