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In first, Washington calls on Beijing to remove missiles from South China Sea
The United States has for the first time urged China to remove missile systems deployed to contested man-made islands in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said Friday. The move, believed to be the first time the U.S. had directly addressed the issue, came in ...
Xi pledges to 'step up' opening China's markets as criticism grows
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed Monday to open access to China's economy, while delivering a veiled rebuke to the Trump administration, as he kicked off an import fair amid growing foreign accusations that his government is backtracking on reform pledges. Xi said China will seek ...
Dissident cartoonist Badiucao cancels Hong Kong show after China 'threats'
Hong Kong organizers of an exhibition by a dissident Chinese-Australian cartoonist, a persistent thorn in the side of leaders in Beijing, cancelled the event in the Chinese-ruled city on Friday given what they said were threats by China. The exhibition by Badiucao was to have ...
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to reach an agreement on trade with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Argentina this month and has asked key U.S. officials to begin drafting potential terms, according to four people familiar with the ...
Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has often expressed admiration for Donald Trump and appears poised to follow the U.S. president in a radical overhaul of his nation's foreign policy — a move that experts warn could ultimately isolate and hurt Brazil. Bolsonaro, who takes office Jan. ...
Australia's highly secretive signals intelligence agency — tasked with eavesdropping and decrypting adversaries' communications — has made a tongue-in-cheek Twitter debut, while issuing a serious warning of security risks from Chinese technology. The Australian Signals Directorate, a sister agency to Britain's GCHQ or America's NSA, ...
China still poring over little-noticed Pence speech weeks later
In Washington, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's Oct. 4 speech ripping China was largely lost amid the uproar over the midterms and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. In Beijing, however, Pence's address is still reverberating. Some in China's foreign policy community continue to study ...
Abe and Xi agree to promote new economic cooperation amid U.S. trade war fears
Tokyo and Beijing agree to create a “new framework” to jointly move ahead with infrastructure projects in third nations
China will prosecute graft and terror suspects even if they flee
China changed its law on Friday to allow judgments to be delivered in corruption and terror cases even when the suspects do not appear in court, as Beijing ramps up pressure on dozens of suspected criminals hiding overseas. Since taking office more than five years ...
Regular contacts need to resume between Japan and China's top leaders in order to stabilize the bilateral relationship.
Abe-Xi summit comes as Chinese leader looks to create united front amid U.S. trade war
At the upcoming summit in Beijing, President Shinzo Abe and Chinese leader Xi Jinping may form a united front in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist moves.
