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by Julien Girault Agence France Presse China warned Sunday that it was ready to hit back if the United States damaged its economic interests, fueling fears of a trade war after President Donald Trump unveiled tariffs on steel and aluminium. Trump’s announcement on Thursday sparked a flurry of counter-threats from other nations. But Washington’s main trade rival had avoided any overt warnings of potential retaliation until now. “China doesn’t want a trade war with the […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German computer chip maker Infineon said Friday it is teaming up with China’s biggest carmaker, SAIC Motor Corporation, to produce power modules for the Chinese electric car market, the world’s biggest. Infineon said in a statement it will hold a 49-percent stake in the new Shanghai-based company, SAIC Infineon Automotive Power Modules (SIAPM), which will make inverters — vital parts that convert power from the battery to a form […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration will deport a Chinese fugitive allegedly wanted in China in 2016 for economic crimes. In a statement, BI spokesperson Ma. Antonette Mangrobang said Jiang Yabo, 36, will be flown to China when the agency gets all the necessary clearances. Bobby Raquepo, head of the agency’s Fugitive Search Unit, said the summary deportation order was issued against Jiang on October 27, 2016, or two months after he was placed on […]
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Thursday said a Philippine-Chinese state firm joint exploration of the South China Sea was “likely to happen.” “We might enter into an agreement with a Chinese-owned corporation, not the Chinese state itself,” Roque said in an interview aired over national television. Roque declined to name the company, but said it was state-owned. “They’re moving forward and it’s likely to happen,” he added without giving a timetable or the exact terms of […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s propaganda machine kicked into overdrive on Tuesday to defend the Communist Party’s move to lift term limits for President Xi Jinping as criticism persisted on social media in defiance of censorship. The party has shocked many observers by proposing a constitutional amendment to end the two-term limit for president, giving Xi a clear path to rule the world’s second-largest economy for life. Censors have scrambled to block critical comments on […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said the Philippines would receive 5,000 firearms from a “friendly country.” In a speech during the inauguration of a shooting range in Davao, Duterte did not say which country this was, but said the firearms would be received “in the next few days.” “We will survive and we will win this pocket wars. And we will be a great nation someday,” the President said. In October, Russia […]
by Dan Martin Agence France Presse SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — Xi Jinping’s tightening grip on China had already earned the leader comparisons to Mao Zedong, but they came into even sharper focus after the party paved the way for him to assume the presidency indefinitely. State media said on Sunday that the ruling Communist Party had proposed abolishing rules limiting leaders to two five-year terms, a guideline imposed in Mao’s wake to avoid a repeat […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Five men were arrested in Vietnam for allegedly attempting to smuggle $2.5 million worth of heroin into China after police shot at their drug-packed vehicle as they tried to flee, local media reported Monday. The men were caught in northern Cao Bang province on the border with China with nearly 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin from Laos in their truck, state-run Thanh Nien newspaper reported. Vietnam is a key trafficking […]
by Patrick Baert Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Xi Jinping, China’s most powerful leader for decades, could stay in office indefinitely after the Communist Party called for the removal of presidential term limits. Xi, who is also party chief and seen as the country’s most formidable ruler since Mao Zedong, has been president since 2013 and the 64-year-old leader would have to step down in 2023 under the current system. But the party’s […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) or Church of Christ held a large blood donation drive in six areas in Hong Kong where at least 465 bags of blood were collected for the Red Cross on Monday, February 19. At least 163,000 cubic centimeters (cc) of blood were donated by the INC volunteers in the blood donation activity held in Mong Kok, Causeway Bay, Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong, Yuen Long, […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang hit a US intelligence community report that branded President Rodrigo Duterte as one of the Southeast Asian leaders who allegedly pose a threat to democracy and human rights in the region, saying this was a “myopic” and “speculative at best” assessment. In a 28-page “Worldwide Threat Assessment” report of the US Intelligence Community presented by US Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, it listed Philippine president Duterte, Cambodian leader Hun […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is eyeing sending soldiers to China so they could be trained. Duterte made the pronouncement in a speech before Filipino-Chinese businessmen at the Manila Hotel on Monday. “(I)’m sure there is an academy there to train good professional Chinese soldiers. Maybe China can accommodate them also and let them not really to fight the Americans but terrorism,” Duterte said. Relations between the Philippines and China have warmed since Duterte assumed […]
