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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — China is not militarizing the disputed South China Sea, the country’s premier insisted in Australia on Friday, claiming defence equipment Beijing has installed on artificial islands is “primarily” for civilian use. The sea is a source of growing regional tension, with Beijing insisting it has sovereignty over virtually all the resource-rich waters, which are also claimed in part by a handful of other countries, and deemed international waters by most of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that China had informed him they were not building anything on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea out of their new friendship, and he is confident that China will “not touch” the disputed shoal. Duterte’s remark came amid a comment by a mayor in charge of China-controlled disputed islands and reefs last week that preparatory work was being planned to build several monitoring stations, including […]
CANBERRA, Australia (AFP) — Australia urged China Thursday to press ahead with economic reforms as Premier Li Keqiang began a trade-focused visit amid growing fears of a US slide towards protectionism. China is Australia’s largest trade partner and its economic importance has grown in the Donald Trump era after the US president ripped into Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a decorum-breaking phone call, fraying relations. Turnbull said he hoped China and Australia could sign […]
KARAWANG, Indonesia (Reuters) — A new study paints an alarming picture for the future of the rice industry. Researchers found that a high level of surface ozone pollution is wreaking havoc on a stage of the rice plant’s development in China – the world’s largest producer of the staple crop. “Peaks in ozone when you have 2 or 3 really bad days of high surface ozone which is like air pollution can have huge impact […]
(Eagle News) — China is now pushing for an ASEAN-China framework on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, which will hopefully prevent the escalating of tensions in the region and promote the peaceful settlement of maritime disputes there. This was bared by Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo in a press conference in Thailand where he also revealed that China and Philippines have already established a “bilateral mechanism” where both countries […]
(Eagle News) — China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday (March 22) denied reports that China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on the disputed Scarborough Shoal (Panatag) in the South China Sea, even as it stressed how it placed “great importance on China-Philippine relations.” China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said the reports on the media about this were simply “not true.” “I want to say, China places great importance on […]
TAIPEI, China (AFP) — Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen launched the island’s first ever home-grown submarine project Tuesday in the face of what the government says are growing military threats from China. The move comes after China sent its only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, through the Taiwan Strait in January, in one of a number of military drills held as relations deteriorate. Taiwan last week warned of an increased invasion risk from China and has pledged […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The row between Seoul and Beijing over the deployment of a United States missile defense system has seen China overtake even former colonizer Japan in the ranking of South Koreans’ least favored countries, a survey shows. Japan has consistently been the Southerners’ most disliked country after North Korea, mainly due to disputes over Tokyo’s wartime atrocities including the use of up to 200,000 Korean women as sexual slaves for Japanese […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Global warming has boosted the frequency and severity of deadly air pollution peaks in northern China, scientists said Monday. Toxic particles in the air cause nearly a million premature deaths in the country every year, according to earlier research. “Climate change increases occurrences of weather conditions conducive to Beijing winter severe haze,” a team reported in the journal Nature Climate Change. In Beijing and other […]
The Iglesia Ni Cristo recently launched an International “Aid for Humanity” in Macau, China.
by Dan Martin Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pledged in talks Sunday to work to strengthen a relationship strained by disputes over North Korea and trade. Xi met Tillerson in Beijing just hours after nuclear-armed North Korea tested the US-China relationship anew by announcing a provocative rocket engine trial, and with delicate negotiations under way for a Xi summit with President Donald […]
(Eagle News) — Mali ang report na mistulang pinahihintulutan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang China na pasukin ang teritoryo ng bansa. Ito’y may kaugnayan sa namataang Chinese Survey Ship sa bahagi ng Benham Rise na umano’y alam ni Pangulong Duterte . Sa panayam ng Liwanagin Natin, sinabi ni Up Professor Clarita Carlos , posibleng may dahilan ang Pangulo at tiyak ring alam nito na mayaman sa natural resources ang Benham Rise kaya malabo niya itong […]
