Despite meetings this week in Beijing between senior American and Chinese officials, China is repeating its call to the United States to fix strained relations between the two countries.
China describes Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg’s two-day fence-mending visit to Beijing as candid and in depth.
But, if there has been an improvement in ties [...]
China is urging the US government to cancel plans for President Barack Obama to meet next week with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu issued a statement Friday, urging the United States to, in his words, “immediately withdraw” plans for a meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama.
Ma [...]
Australia has urged China to handle the case of a Rio Tinto mining executive charged with industrial espionage openly and quickly. Stern Hu, an Australian citizen, was arrested in Shanghai last year with three other Rio Tinto employees.
Australia reacted cautiously to news that Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and his three Chinese colleagues have been [...]
The Year of the Tiger starts in a few days in China. Among the elaborate celebrations will be the start of a last-ditch drive to save the 50 remaining wild tigers in the country.
China is awash with images of orange and black-striped big cats as the country prepares to usher in the Year of the [...]
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A suicide bomb exploded in Ulanhot last Friday, a man and a woman were killed, the streets nearby were blocked off by the authority after the explosion. According to the report, that man brought the bomb into a clothing shop named “TangYun” (Style of Tang Dynasty) and triggered the bomb. It is believed that this [...]
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“1235 airlines,
80,000-kilometer railway,
3,730,000-kilometer road,
and enormous number of rivers,
like blood vessels spread,
dedicated to the peak of public transport in the Spring Festival travel season,
year by year.
150,000,000 Chinese people left their family,
to cities, big cities, the capital city,
for better jobs, better schools and hospitals,
now they are on their way home.
Seeing the whistling trains come close,
please salute,
to one [...]
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi answers questions after a meeting with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner in Paris, 03 Feb 2010
Iran’s key allies, China and Russia, are sending divergent messages on whether to pursue further sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi warned Thursday that talk of additional sanctions is complicating [...]
China has warned of serious repercussions for relations with the United States after the Obama administration’s decision to sell arms to Taiwan.
The Chinese government indicated Tuesday it is still angry over a nearly $6.5 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan that was announced in Washington Friday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu warned that the sale [...]
(Xinhua) – Ignoring repeated solemn representations made by China, the U.S. government on Friday notified Congress of its nearly 6.4 billion-U.S.-dollar arms sale package to Taiwan.
The sale is a wrong decision, which not only undermines China’s national security interests and her national unification cause, but also once again hurts the national feelings of the Chinese [...]
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — China and Canada issued a joint statement in Beijing on Thursday after the official talks between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Following are the highlights of the joint statement:
CORE-INTEREST
Both sides reaffirmed the fundamental principle of respecting each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, core interests and [...]