The US has stepped up efforts to woo India ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington, with its envoy to India recently hailing New Delhi as "one of Washington's closest allies," and saying India should decide whether ...
The Chinese mainland on Wednesday lashed out at a series of recent moves by Taiwan's secessionists Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities and the US over arms sales, trade deals, political visits to the US and attempts to obstruct cross-Straits exchanges, ...
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of the Taiwan island has intensified its collusion with anti-China forces in the US in face of the upcoming election season. The latest fallout includes a bill that aims to expand secessionist authorities' international ...
Liz Truss's reckless visit to Taiwan island could affect the balancing position that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has taken on China engagement, Chinese experts said, as the UK's shortest-serving prime minister and still a member of parliament (MP) kicked ...
Turkey's presidential race is heading to a runoff vote after the incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the strongman who has led the country for two decades, led over his opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Monday but failed to achieve a ...
John Shing-Wan Leung, a Hong Kong resident, was convicted of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of personal property of 500,000 yuan ($71,700), the Suzhou Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu Province announced ...
Dwight Howard, a former NBA star who was once popular in the Chinese mainland, faced a backlash from Chinese netizens and sports fans after he and Lai Ching-te, the head of Taiwan's secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), called Taiwan island ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang called on the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to build a closer SCO community with a shared future at a time when the world faces challenges and crisis including the ...
China sincerely hopes Myanmar will achieve stability and national development, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang said during his visit to Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw, during which China and Myanmar agreed to further promote comprehensive strategic cooperation ...
Provoking China over its core interests will seriously damage the cooperative relationship with China as well as Seoul's international reputation, Chinese experts warned, in the wake of a string of recent provocations made by the South Korean government against China ...
There is broad space for cooperation between China and the Philippines, and it is in the best interests of the Philippines to avoid becoming a pawn of the US against China, Chinese experts said Thursday, ahead of Chinese State ...
The US owes a responsible explanation to the international community, especially to the United Nations, and should take concrete actions to fulfill its responsibilities and obligations as the UN's host country, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, after the UN ...
Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Tuesday kicked off his four-day state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Besides the significance of advancing bilateral ties, President Ali Bongo's visit is constructive in boosting Africa's confidence ...
Top diplomats from the Group of Seven (G7) have vowed to bring unity against “Chinese assertiveness” as they met in Japan for G7 foreign ministers meeting which kicked off on Sunday, while putting China's internal Taiwan question on the ...
China on Friday refuted erroneous remarks on the Taiwan question made by some European politicians, whose provocative words were also seen as reactions from the pro-US camp toward French President Emmanuel Macron's recent comments that Europe must resist pressure to ...
Beijing on Friday imposed a package of sanctions on a diehard 'Taiwan independence' separatist, two Taiwan organizations, as well as US Hudson Institute and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and four US individuals, as countermeasures, signaling a resolute response to ...
All issues at home can be properly resolved through consultation, and the Chinese mainland will facilitate exchanges and contacts between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, a senior mainland Taiwan affairs official told former chairperson of the Chinese ...
With a Finnish flag rising first time outside the NATO headquarters, the Nordic nation officially became NATO's 31st member country at a meeting of the US-led bloc's foreign ministers, including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on Tuesday in Brussels, ...
Former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party Ma Ying-jeou on Tuesday paid a visit to the tomb of KMT general Zhang Zizhong in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. Paying respects to a national hero who died for the country in ...
Former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party Ma Ying-jeou on Monday expressed high expectations for exchanges and cooperation between Taiwan island and Chongqing Municipality while meeting with mainland officials, as his 12-day ancestral trip in the Chinese mainland entered ...
China on Friday expressed strong opposition to Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen's "transit trip" through the US, which violates the one-China principle, and urged the US to keep its word and take concrete actions to uphold the political foundation of ...
Former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party Ma Ying-jeou started his fourth day in the Chinese mainland on Thursday by visiting the Memorial Hall of the Wuchang Uprising in the Revolution of 1911 in Wuhan. The revolution, led by ...
The two sides of the Taiwan Straits are one family, said a senior mainland Taiwan affairs official during a meeting with the former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party Ma Ying-jeou, as the two stressed the importance of adhering ...
"History must never be forgotten… all of us Chinese should stand on our own two feet so that we will not be bullied or trampled," Ma Ying-jeou said on Wednesday at the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing ...
The two sides of the Taiwan Straits should work together to pursue peace, avoid war and revitalize the Chinese nation, former Taiwan regional leader Ma Ying-jeou said on Tuesday in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, as he started his ...
Former Taiwan regional leader Ma Ying-jeou landed in Shanghai on Monday afternoon, kicking off an ancestral trip in the mainland, which experts viewed as being of special significance to easing the tensions across the Taiwan Straits and enhancing exchanges. Furthermore, ...
Japan is becoming increasingly aggressive with a hostile mentality in countering China, and the trend is likely to continue in the near future, Chinese experts warned, as Japan is reportedly set to hype up the "China threat theory" by calling ...
Both cross-Straits ferry service operator and mainland-based Taiwan residents expressed high anticipation on closer exchanges on Friday, after the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities announced on Thursday that the scope of the cross-Straits ferry service between the island-administrated Kinmen, Matsu, ...
Both cross-Straits ferry service operator and mainland-based Taiwan people expressed high anticipation on closer exchanges on Friday, after the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities announced on Thursday that the scope of the cross-Straits ferry service between the island-administrated Kinmen, Matsu, ...
Australia is "planting a time bomb" for its own peace and that of the region, and it would bear the cost of the "expensive mistake" of following the US, Chinese experts warned, as the AUKUS leaders of the US, UK ...
US President Joe Biden proposed a $6.8 trillion budget for the 2024 fiscal year on Thursday, laying out plans that include increasing military spending, promoting social welfare programs, raising taxes on the rich and deficit reduction. The US will invest ...
The foreign ministers of QUAD countries met on Friday and reaffirmed the grouping's commitment for a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” releasing an 18-point joint statement that analysts viewed as lousy clichés with a confrontational mentality, as it singled out Russia ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping warmly received the visiting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Beijing on Wednesday, the main day of the latter's three-day state visit to China, a continuation of friendship after the two nations upgraded their bilateral relations to ...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday kicked off a three-day state visit to China and is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. His visit comes as China attempts to promote a political settlement of the Ukraine ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday urged the US to stop spreading disinformation on the so-called China's military backing for Russia, saying that China will not accept such coercion or pressure. In the latest round of public opinion offensives against ...
On the one-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, China restated its calls for political settlement of the Ukraine crisis with more specific plans that accommodate the concerns of both Russia and Ukraine, in a neutral and consistent manner.
Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday on strengthening bilateral cooperation, upholding multilateralism, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in his first stop of his Europe trip. He will also attend the Munich Security ...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is sliding into escalation and war of attrition, with the risks of both direct NATO involvement and Russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons on the rise, Chinese experts warned, following US and NATO hype of a Russian ...
Individual travel of Hong Kong and Macao residents to Taiwan region will resume, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities on the island announced on Tuesday. Tourism businesses on the island of Taiwan welcomed the move, hoping it to be a ...
The US is weaponizing the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and trying to set up an anti-China front to serve America's adventurism, experts warned on Monday, following the US announcement that it has made "substantial progress" with Papua New Guinea (PNG) ...
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday met with Andrew Hsia, vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, in Beijing. Both sides expressed ...
Five months after the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipelines which shocked the world, an article by veteran US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has accused the US of being the culprit of the blasts.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Wednesday urged the Taiwan island's secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities to take practical measures and remove unilateral barriers to cross-Straits exchanges, while stressing that the Chinese mainland will continue to ...
The Chinese mainland expressed a message of welcome after the Chinese Kuomintang party (KMT), the pro-reunification opposition party in China's Taiwan region, announced it was sending a delegation led by deputy chairman Andrew Hsia for a 10-day visit to the ...
Over the past three pandemic-hit years, the number of cross-Straits marriages has dropped by more than 70 percent, the Global Times learned from figures offered by a cross-Straits marriage affairs insider on Friday. The news comes amid recent calls for ...
Chen Chien-jen, a close ally and friend of Taiwan's regional leader Tsai Ing-wen, officially became head of the region's executive body in a handover ceremony on January 31, replacing Su Tseng-chang. The 2024 election to become regional leader is already ...
Days after a four-star US Air Force general hyped that the US and China could be at war over the Taiwan question by 2025, a senior congressional Republican on Sunday expressed support for the reckless assessment, which Chinese experts believed ...
In bid to "strengthen defense partnerships," US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin embarked on a trip to South Korea and the Philippines on Sunday, a move that Chinese experts viewed as Washington's latest effort to beef up military integration that targets ...
A four-star US air force general predicted that the US and China will be at war in two years, most likely over the Taiwan region, and called on troops under his command to pursue battle readiness in a recently disclosed ...
Holding back tears, Jacinda Ardern made a shock announcement on Thursday that she was leaving office and will not seek reelection after more than five years as New Zealand's prime minister. Chinese experts on Thursday hailed Ardern's efforts in the ...
The head of Taiwan island's executive body Su Tseng-chang announced on Thursday that his team will resign en masse, and his resignation is pending approval from the regional leader Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan-based media outlets have reported.
The US and Japan are continuing to undermine regional peace and stability in 2023, as top defense and diplomatic officials from both countries vowed to strengthen their military alliance and security cooperation, citing the "greatest strategic challenge" from China. Chinese ...
Bipartisan lawmakers from the US House of Representatives have voted to set up a new GOP-led select committee to address Beijing's "multifaceted threats," the first anti-China step after Republican Kevin McCarthy sealed the House Speaker seat after a historical grueling ...
The US plans to set up a rapid reaction Marine unit throughout Japan's Okinawa islands within a few years, media reported on Tuesday, one day ahead of the 2023 US-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting in Washington, DC. Japanese Prime Minister ...
Storming major government buildings, trying to burn carpet, smashing windows, destroying artworks, and using furniture to form barricades against police… Video clips show that two years after the US Capitol Hill assault, a similar riot reoccurred in Brazil on Sunday ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with visiting Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov in Beijing on Friday, during which the two heads of state announced the elevation of China-Turkmenistan relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership and underlined key aspects for further ...
The Russia-Ukraine stalemate on the battlefield is likely to continue along with the damage to people's lives and economy, Chinese experts warned on Friday, after Ukraine dismissed Russia's 36-hour ceasefire offer over Orthodox Christmas, at a time when US and ...
Trade disputes between China and Australia should not be raised to a political level with a description like "sanctions," as China is always willing to discuss trade problems with Australia candidly, Chinese experts said, after Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell ...
Japan is removing its pacifist mask as it continues attempts to strengthen its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, Chinese experts said on Wednesday, following reports that Tokyo is likely to deploy a surface-to-air missile defense unit at Japan's closest ...
At a Tuesday press briefing on "adjusting the structure" of the military and defense, Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen announced to extend mandatory military service from its current four months to one year starting from 2024.
The meetings on the "US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade" are the product of their political collusion targeting the Chinese mainland, and any possible agreement of an "official nature" will be strongly counteracted by the mainland, experts said, following reports ...
Australia should not sacrifice its interests and autonomy for the sake of US hegemony, and China would not meet Australia's wishful thinking on cooperation if it is just siding with the US and challenging China's core interests, Chinese experts warned ...
As concerns of a possible trade war between the EU and the US increase, Chinese analysts said major European economies need to make pragmatic and wise decisions to safeguard their own interests rather than following Washington too closely at their ...
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who dragged China-US diplomatic relations into unprecedented danger after a provocative visit to the island of Taiwan in August, has announced that she will not seek the Democratic leadership again after Republicans secured control of ...
The US is bracing for further chaos and division, as Republicans are highly likely to trigger an impeachment process against US President Joe Biden if they wrest control of the House back, Chinese experts predicted, as Americans will finish voting ...
Amid the politicians' spats, inflation, gunshot and fear of violence, the US midterm election is looming as a warm-up of the 2024 presidential election, as well as the revenge of the 2020 race that Donald Trump lost and resulted in ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on his official visit to China in Beijing on Friday, making him the first European leader to visit China after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. ...
Amid pressure from the US and EU nations, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz defended his China position one day before his trip to Beijing, stressing that Germany doesn't want to decouple from China, and the country's rise did not justify "the ...
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula situation escalated to fresh heights on Wednesday when North Korea reportedly launched multiple missiles after a US-South Korea military drill kicked off, with Chinese officials and experts calling for restraint, as well as dialogue and ...
Questions and suspicions on whether US would shift its approach to Ukraine have been raised, as more analysts noticed the recently disclosed phone call indicating US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's discord over military assistance and some ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) on his election as president of Brazil, saying that the long-term friendship and the deepening of mutually beneficial cooperation serve the fundamental interests of the ...
Hyping the increasing "security challenge" and "threats" from China, the Pentagon released the Biden administration's national defense strategy on Thursday, which Chinese experts viewed as a product of fear and filled with Cold War mentality that damages world peace and ...
Amid an intensifying spat with the US on oil production, Saudi Arabia has expressed its "desire" to join BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), a move Chinese experts view as a setback for Washington's "oil for security" approach ...
Highlighting China's challenge and competition would exert a negative impact on the political atmosphere and economic cooperation between China and Europe, which will not benefit the European Union (EU) to stamp out its problems, Chinese experts said, following EU foreign ...
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, who has been in office for just about 40 days, is fighting for her political survival as more than 100 members of parliament (MPs) belonging to her Conservative Party are threatening to force her to ...
Chinese officials and experts on Thursday denounced the US for its "outdated confrontational mentality" and hyping "external threat" to divert attention from domestic problems, and urged Washington to follow the principles of peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, after the Biden ...
Some Taiwan-based media, citing secessionist observers, welcomed the US idea on Monday, saying that stockpiling weapons in Taiwan island would be a "logistical asset," as they can immediately be obtained from the depot, without waiting for weeks to get them.
Chinese mainland officials and experts blasted Taiwan's secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities for twisting the nature of cross-Straits relations, hyping "mainland threat" and colluding with external forces to seek secession, an attempt they believed is daydreaming and will be ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the US to sincerely support Pacific Island countries (PICs) in tackling climate change and achieving development, and refuted US' smearing of China's 'economic coercion' in the region, following the first ever summit between ...
In the latest round of increasingly frequent attempts by US politicians to "score points" by provoking China over the Taiwan question ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans introduced their own version of the highly provocative "Taiwan Policy Act 2022," which ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned that the Taiwan question has become the biggest point of risk in China-US relations, as he prepared for a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York, which ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Thursday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, in a meeting which Wong described as "constructive."
"The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. The time, momentum and righteousness of reunification are on the side of the Chinese mainland," Chen Yuanfeng, deputy head of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State ...
Amid current geopolitical turbulence, US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are scheduled to hold a summit on Tuesday (US time) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, where the Taiwan question will ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry slammed the US for seriously violating its important commitment of "no support for Taiwan secession" and sending a seriously wrong signal to Taiwan secessionists, after US President Joe Biden said US forces would "defend" the island ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol met with China's top legislator Li Zhanshu in Seoul on Friday, saying that he hopes to further develop ties with China against the backdrop of the two countries' 30th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic ties, ...
China is ready to work with Russia in extending strong support to each other on issues concerning their respective core interests, Chinese President Xi Jinping said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Samarkand on Thursday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday sent a message of condolence to UK's new King Charles III on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, and extended sincere sympathy to the British royal family, British government and British people.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry urged US politicians to immediately stop any form of official exchanges with China's Taiwan region, and stop sending wrong signals to Taiwan secessionists, in response to the ongoing trip by a US bipartisan delegation led by ...
A few days after US-based Boeing Co sealed an aircraft deal worth $4.6 billion with Taiwan island's largest airline to replace aging Airbus planes, a French Senate delegation was reportedly about to start a visit to the island next week, ...
China firmly opposes the release of the so-called Xinjiang-related report by the UN Human Rights Office, which is a pure stunt orchestrated by the US and a few other Western countries, and hopes the high commissioner will make the right ...
The US is reportedly planning to sell an arms package involving anti-ship and air-to-air missiles worth $1.1 billion to the island of Taiwan only weeks after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's provocative visit to the island, a move analysts said ...
Due to the failure to troubleshoot an engine problem, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion capsule remained on the ground at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, disappointing people who gathered at the center and ...
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) organized a multi-service and arms joint combat-readiness patrol and realistic combat exercise in the seas and airspace around the island of Taiwan, the Eastern Theater Command of the PLA announced on Friday afternoon, hours after ...
After China-US relations seriously worsen due to the provocative trip to Taiwan made by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month, Washington, instead of reflecting on its own mistakes and correcting them, continues to provoke China with the latest ...
In the context of the great power game between China and the US, the situation across the Taiwan Straits has entered a more dangerous and fragile new stage featuring long-term confrontation, experts on the Taiwan question said. They noted that ...
Taiwan's economy will be further impacted due to the geo-political tension provoked by the US and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' secessionist policy to unwisely undermine the island's trade ties with the Chinese mainland, said analysts on Tuesday, as ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday that China's necessary response to Lithuania's erroneous acts over the Taiwan question is totally legitimate, reasonable and lawful, and it urged Lithuania to stop chipping away the political foundation of China-Lithuania relations, in ...
The DPP authorities in the island of Taiwan were urged to explain whether they have a financial relationship with visiting US politicians after the public found Pelosi's son, without a government post or specific mission, was a shady member of ...
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force will hold joint air force exercises "Falcon Strike 2022" with Thai military starting August 14, China's Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced on Friday, amid regional chaos caused by external interference in the ...
China's newly published white paper titled “The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era” has drawn attention not only from two sides of the Taiwan Straits but also the international community, as it has outlined China's plan for ...
Chinese netizens have swarmed to social media to express firm and full support for and confidence in the central government's measures to tackle the US after Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday announced countermeasures against the US' provocation and sanctions against ...
Following the Chinese mainland's suspension of imports of several agricultural products from the island of Taiwan, which is viewed as a sort of punishing fallout from US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit, residents from the island's agricultural and business sectors, ...
Civic groups, politicians, and business and industry representatives on the island of Taiwan on Tuesday protested against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's potential visit, amid drastically escalating military tension across the Taiwan Straits after US- and Taiwan-based media on Monday ...
The intensity of the situation across the Taiwan Straits has drastically escalated as the military deployment from the Chinese mainland, US and the island of Taiwan continues creeping up, after US and Taiwan-based media disclosed that US House Speaker Nancy ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are keeping up the pressure on the US over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's potential visit to the island of Taiwan, urging the US to honor US President Joe Biden's promise ...
After over a decade of construction, India's first indigenous aircraft carrier, the Vikrant, was handed over to the Indian navy by its constructor, Cochin Shipyard, on Thursday. Chinese experts said on Friday that although there is still a big gap ...
One day after US President Joe Biden said that the US has not changed its position on the one-China policy and reiterated Washington's opposition toward “Taiwan independence” during a phone conversation between Chinese and US leaders on Thursday night, the ...
By saying it is "fully prepared" for military conflict with the US and warning that the South Korean military would be "annihilated" in the event of "preemptive strike," North Korea has been showing a tougher tone recently following US ...
China on Friday denounced Japan over its annual defense white paper, as it outlined China and other neighbors as “threats” in a bid to gain more domestic support to boost the defense budget and amend the pacifist constitution. Chinese analysts ...
After China warned of "strong and resolute measures" over US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's planned Taiwan trip, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday hinted the Pentagon opposed Pelosi's trip. Chinese observers believe that Biden administration has clearly received China's message ...
Chinese Foreign Ministry denounced the European Parliament (EP) on Wednesday for having seriously violating the one-China principle and urged the EU body to stop any forms of official exchanges with China's Taiwan region.
Once again, media has reported that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan in August after an aborted April visit to Asia that might include a trip to China's island due to testing positive for COVID-19, with analysts ...
The former US defense secretary under the Trump administration Mark Esper landed on the island of Taiwan on Monday, three days after the US government approved a proposed $108 million arms sale of technical and equipment support to the Taiwan ...
US President Joe Biden landed in Saudi Arabia on Friday and started the "most embarrassing" stop of his Mideast tour, as the US is in urgent need of appeasing or just resetting relations with the energy-rich country which Biden called ...
The European Parliament (EP) once again is creating troubles for European countries by passing a report on the "Indo-Pacific Strategy in the Area of Trade and Investment," in which the EU's legislative body calls on EU members to promote economic ...
The 30 NATO members signed off on the accession protocol for Finland and Sweden in Brussels on Tuesday, allowing the two Nordic countries to advance toward the final stage of becoming formal and fresh members of the US-led world's largest ...
Following a historic diplomatic presence at the NATO summit, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol returned to Seoul, but was greeted by a record-low approval rating less than two months since he took office.
The US and the UK have faced strong opposition from China after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made rude and wrong remarks on China over the Hong Kong affairs hours before a jubilant ...
China on Thursday expressed strong opposition and denounced NATO, after the US-led military alliance vilified China's development as "systemic challenges" in its newly released "strategic concept" for the first time, which means Beijing was targeted as one of NATO's "strategic ...
For the first time in history, leaders of Japan and South Korea joined the NATO Summit in Madrid on Wednesday to express their interest in underpinning a security alliance with the US' Western allies, following an "unprecedented" tough stance against ...
Economic officials from the US and Taiwan island held their first meeting on Monday (US time) under the "US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade," exchanging views over "an ambitious roadmap of negotiation" to further deepen economic and trade ties.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is expected to meet with US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the NATO leaders' summit from Wednesday to Thursday in Madrid, which would become Yoon's in-person debut on a multilateral ...
A US-made S-70C anti-submarine helicopter with over 30 years of service crashed in Taiwan island on Wednesday, injuring four local officers and killing one.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Thursday reiterated that the Biden administration's stance on the Taiwan question "has not changed from previous presidencies," the first statement of its kind since a recent meeting between Sullivan and China's top diplomat ...
On the second day of working-level meetings between security officials of the US and Taiwan, the island-based media disclosed that the "rock-solid" relationship with the US touted by secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities was achieved by paying US lobbyists. ...
As a slew of saber-rattling security meetings between the US and the secessionist Taiwan authorities are expected to start on Wednesday (US time), following the recent China-US dialogue between defense chiefs and senior diplomats, Chinese mainland experts viewed it as ...
Tangshan, which is mired in broad questions on the city's governance capability and efforts in fighting gang crimes, updated its hotlines to facilitate tip-offs on crimes as its latest special campaign against crimes has attracted flocks of locals to police ...
Astonishment and ridicule broke out on the island of Taiwan on Friday, after a Slovakian delegation of politicians staged a mock scuffle in the island's "legislature" inspired by the local politicians. Despite the Slovakian politicians' "sense of humor" was forcefully ...
The approval rating of Taiwan's regional leader Tsai Ing-wen has dropped to a historic low since the start of her second term, as the island's COVID-19 mortality rate broke through the warning line of one in 1,000. Chinese mainland experts ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday called on all sides to remain calm and avoid actions that may aggravate tensions, after recent frequent missile launches by North Korea, South Korea and the US. Chinese experts said Washington, which wants to ...
China needs to be alert to Japan's escalation of substantive engagement with Taiwan secessionist authorities and the possibility of the island becoming a new intelligence stronghold against the Chinese mainland, Chinese experts said on Sunday, following Japanese media's reports that ...
China launched strong opposition on Tuesday with both diplomatic and military means in protest against US senator Tammy Duckworth's surprise visit to the island of Taiwan and talks with secessionists.
Before the scheduled phone calls with Russian and Ukraine leaders respectively on Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-stressed the objection to Sweden and Finland's bid to join NATO, as the Scandinavian countries support Kurdish militants whom Turkey considers terrorists. ...
China's ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun criticized the US for using the Korean peninsula issue as a card for its "Indo-Pacific strategy," after China and Russia vetoed a US-led UN Security Council resolution to toughen sanctions on North ...
The regional leader of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen marked her 6th year in office on Friday amid a COVID fiasco and sinking approval rate, which observers viewed as a full exposure of the secessionist's incompetence and neglect of people's livelihoods. ...
A day before US President Joe Biden's Asia trip, a 25-pronged joint statement was finalized at the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting Thursday night Beijing time, which includes consensus on increasing the role of emerging economies in inclusive global governance, support ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday stressed China's position on the negative moves by Japan and the US against China in a virtual talk with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, following reports that Japan and the ...
A four-day counter-terrorism meeting participated by Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members under the framework of the SCO's Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) is being held in New Delhi, India, which Chinese experts viewed as a sign of efforts in Asia over ...
Taiwan authorities kicked off their annual Han Kuang military exercise on Monday. However, while attempting to attract attention with scenarios drawn from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the first phase of the war games, an "all-out defense" computer simulation, will surprisingly be ...
The construction of a 15-minute circle of nucleic acid testing services in big cities would help to speed up China's response to COVID-19 outbreaks, a national health official said Friday, as the country has gradually fished out a Chinese method ...
Three major sports events to be held in China in second half of 2022, including the Asian Games, have been postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, organizers announced on Friday, casting a shadow to the global sports calendar, as well ...
About a week after US cancelled its first arms deal to Taiwan authorities under the Biden administration, the island announced to abandon the plan to buy anti-submarine warfare helicopter from the US as "the price is too high." The seemingly-surprising ...
Weeks ahead of US President Joe Biden's Japan and South Korea visits and the Quad summit in Tokyo, the defense chiefs of US and Japan met and talked on Wednesday at the Pentagon, and agreed to boost their alliance in ...
The first deal approved by the Biden administration to sell $750 million worth of arms to Taiwan, including 40 155mm M109A6 medium self-propelled howitzers, has been halted by the US, Taiwan's defense authority said.
The latest US effort to help separatist forces on the island of Taiwan "regain observer status" at the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the WHO, will prove futile again, just like how numerous political stunts pulled by ...
A day after guide-missile destroyer USS Sampson's provocative transit through the Taiwan Straits, the Taiwan authority announced the details and focus of the Hankuang military exercise in 2022, saying they will consider lessons learned from the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
As the 2022 Australian federal election approaches, both Prime Minister Scott Morrison's administration and opposition politicians are playing the "China card" hard to undermine their opponents. Chinese experts said that Beijing should have no illusions about Canberra, given the political ...
The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Monday summed up China's achievements in building the legal system over the past decade, stressing that the country has seen a significant increase in the number of ...
On a day when Taiwan authorities reported the biggest one-day increase of COVID-19 infections, local media reports said the island was running out of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to fight the virus. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Taiwan has ...
Standing on the crossroads of history, Japan switched to a hard-line posture against Russia that Japan has territorial disputes with, and hailed Tokyo's solid ties with Washington in its annual diplomatic report.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on Thursday on the phone, stressing that China and Vietnam, two socialist countries, are ready to strengthen solidarity and will not let a tragedy ...
About a week after the farce of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's aborted plan to reportedly visit Taiwan, a delegation composed of six US congressmen from the military, intelligence, foreign affairs, justice and finance committees arrived on Taiwan island, kicking ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a gathering at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games.
If US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits the island of Taiwan, as some media have reported, China will definitely respond with "resolute and forceful measures," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Chinese experts said China will and must retaliate; ...
The Biden administration approved its second arms sale to the Taiwan authority in two months, an estimated $95-million package including equipment and services to maintain the missile defense system the US exported to the island.
When asked about Lithuania's impact on China-EU relations, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said if Lithuania returns to the one-China principle, a basic norm of international relations and a universal consensus held by the international community, things will be "back to ...
China and the EU have much in common in basic positions. Both sides support peace talks, and efforts to ease tensions and to prevent large scale humanitarian crisis. Neither side hopes to see a world moving toward division: FM diplomats ...
China-hosted talks between foreign ministers of Afghanistan's neighboring countries and the Afghan Taliban concluded on Thursday in East China's Tunxi, Anhui Province, foregrounding China's role as a constructive leading force in addressing the Afghan issue. Some analysts said the mechanism ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday in Tunxi, East China's Anhui Province, highlighting the continuing efforts to strengthen strategic partnership, amid the Ukraine crisis and other ongoing crises such ...
The White House on Monday asked Congress for an $813 billion national defense in 2023, including $773 billion for the Pentagon, a four percent rise from the 2022 submission, with the "pacing challenge" of China and the "Russian aggression" to ...
Shanghai registered its highest daily tally of asymptomatic cases on Friday as the city faces a tough fight against the Omicron variant. Some experts have called for an exploration of home quarantine to free up more medical resources and ease ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday said NATO's act of aggression will never be forgotten by the Serbian people, the Chinese people and the people around the world, amid the bitter 23rd anniversary of the Yugoslavia bombing in 1999 and ...
After a two-day drop in the number of infections since Tuesday, locally transmitted cases in Northeast China's Jilin Province surged sharply on Thursday, casting a shadow on the provincial government which has vowed to crush the outbreak within a week. ...
Signs of a potential breakthrough showed up a bit amid the Ukraine crisis, as Russia claimed that the neutral status of Ukraine had been discussed in the latest round of bilateral talks. However, the two countries disagreed on the exact ...
Russia and the US have exchanged and escalated sanctions with Russia announcing on Tuesday tit-to-tat sanctions on US President Joe Biden and 12 top officials including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has once again attracted the world's attention due to a recent post. The world's richest man challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a "single combat'' for Ukraine on Twitter.
The 15th round of China-India corps commander level meeting concluded on Friday, continuing the positive atmosphere since the 14th round of talk, as the two sides reached consensus on agreeing to maintain dialogue via military and diplomatic channels to reach ...
About four weeks after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony, which injected hope and confidence into the world with a theme of spring, the Paralympic Games opening ceremony kicked off Friday at the same stage of the Bird's ...
Taiwan media have stopped cheering the latest US bipartisan delegation dispatched to the island after noticing a "lack of respect" and "inappropriate" attire from a former US senior official. Taiwan's secessionists Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority, which always toes Washington's ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games on Friday when the Bird's Nest welcomes world guests again in a month, and the highly anticipated Winter Paralympics are expected to not only ...
A bipartisan US delegation of former senior defense and security officials landed in Taiwan island on Tuesday amid the escalating Ukraine crisis, which was hyped by some Western media and Taiwan secessionists as a prelude to Taiwan's future.
With so many cities in Northeast China, why did Qitaihe, a small city 1,600 kilometers away from Beijing, become China's cradle of winter sports champions?
In a virtual speech to a commemorative event marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Shanghai Communique, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the US to respect the one-China principle rather than hollow out ...
On February 5, when Fan Kexin, together with her teammates, won the first gold medal of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics for Team China in the short-track speed skating mixed team relay, her parents, Fan Shizhong and Nie Guiling, hugged ...
The secessionists Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority is faced with strong public opposition after its agricultural department announced it would import eggs from Japan, which is still listed as an avian flu epidemic area by Taiwan.
As tensions rise in Ukraine and attract the world's attention, Taiwan, an island that has been largely ignored for a while, has begun to link its discourse to the Ukrainian crisis, along with collaboration from some US officials who recently ...
NBA team the Houston Rockets, which has a large fan base in China, waived the controversial Enes Kanter Freedom after acquiring the center via a trade with the Boston Celtics before the transfer window closed on Thursday (ET).
With International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's applause and the cheering of flag-waving audience, China's 18-year-old freestyle skier Gu Ailing, known internationally as Eileen Gu, with hands on her head and a look of excitement, captured the gold of ...
With International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's applause and the crowd of flag-waving audience, China's 18-year-old freestyle skier Gu Ailing, also known as Eileen Gu, with hands on her head and a look of excitement, was crowned as the ...
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez laid a wreath at the mausoleum of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square on Saturday, the Casa Rosada, or the office of the President of Argentina, confirmed in its latest statement.
Fourteen years after the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, the Beijing 2022 Winter Games kicked off on Friday with a same fervor of patriotic pride among the public. As Beijing officially became the "dual-Olympic" city, China also ushered in the ...
Two of China's top anti-COVID experts made an appearance in the highly anticipated torch relay for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games on Wednesday, hailing Beijing's achievement to host the Olympic Games amid the pandemic.
Beijing 2022 Winter Games organizers on Saturday said that there has been no COVID-19 transmission found within the biosecurity bubble set up for the Games which is separated from the general public, despite seven Olympic personnel testing positive on Friday ...
This is supposed to be the time for family reunion and Spring Festival shopping as the grandest festival for Chinese people is less than a week away. However, Taiwan residents are facing an acute egg shortage and rising prices.
Amid regional tensions and domestic COVID-19 spikes, US President Joe Biden held a virtual meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday, during which they agreed to boost cooperation on pressing economic and security issues, including China's growing power, ...
Same old tricks were played by some Indian media and politicians once again as they hyped that Chinese border soldiers had "kidnapped" a 17-year-old boy in Zangnan, in the southern part of Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. However, both Chinese ...
Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said it is "deeply shocked" and "strongly opposes" Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa's plan to establish a representative office on the island of Taiwan.
The Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a virtual meeting with Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets at request on Monday, following the uproar caused by Estonia's Baltic neighbor Lithuania which has provoked China on Taiwan question.
With three weeks to go before the opening of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the hosting Beijing Municipality government released details on traffic management measures during the Winter Games, advocating for green and low-carbon travel, and calling for ...
After two rounds of dialogue between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden in December 2021, senior diplomats from Russia and US held talks on Monday in Geneva, dubbed the "capital of peace," amid the Russia-Ukraine border ...
Aiming to deepen defense cooperation, the US and Japan on Friday held a virtual 2+2 meeting, with a new five-year agreement on sharing the cost of US military presence in Japan signed. Experts said that Kishida Fumio's cabinet, under pressure ...
The Fifth Session of the 11th Xizang Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in Lhasa on Monday, marking the start of the 2022 local two sessions, the annual meetings of provincial-level lawmakers and political advisors, ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday night delivered his 2022 New Year Address, the ninth straight annual speech since 2014, in which he hailed the 2021 as a year of "exceptional significance." Xi thanked the hard work of countless unsung ...
After a month of indecision, Japan announced it would not send a government delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics, but will send three heavyweights with ties to the Olympics, while not daring to use the term "diplomatic boycott." Chinese analysts ...
Chinese envoy to the UN called on the US to unfreeze Afghanistan's overseas assets as soon as possible so as to help Afghanistan ease a humanitarian crisis.
Lithuania continues to hype China's "economic pressure" after a diplomatic downgrade. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte spoked with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday. According to the US Department of State, Blinken and Simonyte have reaffirmed the importance ...
Taiwan secessionists were once again snubbed and isolated by South Korea as Seoul decided to cancel a Taiwan official's speech during a high-level conference last week.
While delivering a speech during the opening ceremony of a Beijing-based annual symposium on international relations, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi reviewed China's diplomacy in 2021, and stressed China's consistent diplomatic stance, saying that China has been ...
The National Football League (NFL) recently found itself under fire after posting a map of its international market on Twitter, which correctly labels the Chinese mainland and Taiwan together as one China.
