MANILA (Reuters) – Southeast Asian ministers meeting this week are set to avoid tackling the subject of Beijing’s arming and building of manmade South China Sea islands, preparing to endorse a framework for a code…
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China helps US search for missing sailor in S. China Sea
Japanese and US naval forces have been holding drills in the contested South China Sea in the face of Beijing’s increasing assertiveness over its maritime claims in the region. Beijing has pursued claims on nearly…
Book review: Beijing Smog – biting satire of corruption and repression in modern China
A biting satire of modern China, Beijing Smog takes just about every zeitgeisty theme imaginable, from fake news and civil disobedience to corruption crackdowns and Ferraris crashed by playboy sons of Party bigwigs, and weaves…
Turkey and China pledge close security cooperation
BEIJING (AP) — Turkey has vowed to root out militants plotting against China as the two countries pledged to collaborate on a security issue that had been a source of friction. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut…
China tests missiles during the weekend, US officials say
President Trump tweeted he was “very disappointed” in China for doing “nothing” to stop North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs. Lucas Tomlinson is the Pentagon and State Department producer for Fox News Channel. You…
China’s Hambantota Deal Is Bad News For Both Pakistan And India
Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port is officially China’s own port, for 99 years. That’s according to a landmark agreement signed early last week, which gives China Merchants Ports Holdings—an arm of the Chinese government–70 percent stake…
A winning formula? China invests in Canadian dairy to help feed its baby boom
Business proposals obtained by CBC News under the Access to Information Act anticipate strong growth for China’s formula market. Only one in four Chinese mothers breastfeed exclusively for their baby’s first six months. The gradual…
Will defeat all invasions, never allow anyone to split China: Xi Jinping
China’s President Xi Jinping in his address to top military and Communist party officials on the 90th annivers… Read More BEIJING: President Xi Jinping warned that China would never swallow the “bitter fruit” that is…
Trump accused China of profiting from American trade while doing nothing to restrain North Korea.
“We think the North Korea nuclear issue and China-U.S. trade … are in two completely different domains,” Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming said at a news conference in Beijing. “They aren’t related. They should…
In China’s hotel lobbies, small gaps in ‘Great Firewall’ are closing
BEIJING (Reuters) – In China, the plush international hotel lobby has been one of the few places to find gaps in the “Great Firewall”, a sophisticated system that denies online users access to blocked content…
Essay on Beijing migrants’ plight fuels online debate in China
BEIJING, Aug 1 (Reuters) – A sharply worded essay by an obscure Chinese author on the plight of Beijing’s migrants has stirred intense online debate over its polemical style, prompting the ruling Communist Party’s official…
China will not permit loss of ‘any piece’ of territory, president warns
Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a tough line on national sovereignty Tuesday amid multiple territorial disputes with his country’s neighbours, saying China will never permit the loss of “any piece” of its land to outsiders.…
China fires back at Donald Trump’s criticism of North Korea and its latest missile test
Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming, weighed in too, telling a news conference there was no link between the North Korea issue and China-U.S. trade. “We think the North Korea nuclear issue and China-US trade…
