China

US-China trade talks could take 'months': Trump adviser

Mar 29, 2019 03:38

US President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser says trade talks between the US and China could stretch for “months”, offering the latest indication of a slowdown in the negotiations to end the commercial conflict between the world’s two most powerful economies.
Washington to procure more arms: Taiwan’s President

Mar 28, 2019 07:12

Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen, who is in the United States, says Washington has agreed to Taipei’s request for tanks and fighter jets to bolster its military, a move considered to be in open defiance of China, which views the self-ruled island as part of its territory.
The greatest wall of all

Mar 26, 2019 10:05

The quixotic Donald Trump’s idiotic idea of erecting walls on the US border with Mexico to prevent the influx of what he claims illegal immigrants has been coupled with Trump’s wrong policies in other cases.
China rejects US criticism of govt.-organized Xinjiang visits as 'slander'

Mar 25, 2019 10:51

China has rejected as “slander” the US criticism of Beijing-organized visits by foreign diplomats and journalists to the restive western region of Xinjiang, where the Chinese government stands accused of involvement in a crackdown campaign against Muslim minorities.
Death toll from China pesticide plant blast rises to 78

Mar 25, 2019 10:49

The death toll from a massive explosion last week at a pesticide plant in eastern China rose to 78 on Monday, with 13 people listed as being critically injured, as the government again pledged stricter safely controls, state media reported.
US Navy ships pass through Taiwan Strait amid tensions with China

Mar 25, 2019 06:50

The US Navy has sent two ships through the strategic Taiwan Strait, in a move that is likely to aggravate Washington’s already-high tensions with China, which views the self-ruled island as part of its territory.
Italy endorses China's new Silk Road plan despite US warnings

Mar 24, 2019 07:48

Italy has joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an international infrastructure plan, dismissing calls from the United States to shun the project.
China strongly objects to US over North Korea-related sanctions

Mar 22, 2019 12:03

China has filed “stern representations” with the United States over North Korea-related unilateral sanctions imposed on two Chinese shipping firms.
Blast at Chinese chemical plant kills 47, injures over 600

Mar 22, 2019 08:07

An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 47 people and injured more than 600, state media said on Friday, March 22, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has angered the public.
US imposes North Korea sanctions on Chinese shipping companies

Mar 22, 2019 01:43

The United States has targeted two Chinese shipping companies over the alleged evasion of sanctions imposed on North Korea, the first such steps since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's summit collapsed last month.