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by Kerry SHERIDAN HONOLULU, United States (AFP) — Decades of conservation work in China have paid off for the giant panda, whose status was upgraded Sunday from “endangered” to “vulnerable” due to a population rebound, officials said. The improvement for the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was announced as part of an update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, the world’s most comprehensive inventory of plants and animals. The latest estimates […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) – Taiwan’s already frosty relations with Beijing are set to cool further after the appointment of a controversial diplomat to handle cross-strait ties sparked a backlash. Beijing still sees self-ruling Taiwan as part of its territory and has been piling pressure on new president Tsai Ing-wen to acknowledge that there is only “one China”. It deeply mistrusts Tsai, whose Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is traditionally pro-independence. Beijing has cut official communications with Tsai, who […]
by Maria PANINA MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The G20 summit starting in China on Sunday gives Russian President Vladimir Putin one more chance to try to strongarm US leader Barack Obama over Syria and Ukraine as their fraught relationship nears an end. In recent years the two world leaders have barely been able to hide their disdain for each other as ties between Washington and Moscow fell to their lowest level since the Cold War […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama begins his 11th and final presidential trip to the Asia-Pacific in earnest on Friday, visiting China to nurture what has become arguably the world’s most important relationship and cementing an eight-year “pivot to Asia.” After a series of US stops outside Washington, the outgoing US president jets in to the picturesque Chinese city of Hangzhou where he will take part in his final G20 meeting. […]
(REUTERS) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was ready to discuss any issues with Barack Obama when they meet in Laos next week, but added that the U.S. president must listen to him first before bringing up the question of human rights. Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation. Asked if he would […]
GOTEMBA, Japan (Reuters) — Japan’s defense ministry on Wednesday (August 31) asked for a hike in spending to record levels, as it juggles its responses to a growing ballistic missile threat from North Korea and China’s assertive moves in the East China Sea. If approved, the hike of 2.3 percent will take the defense budget to 5.17 trillion yen ($51.47 billion) in the year starting April 1, for a fifth consecutive increase as Prime Minister Shinzo […]
by Benjamin CARLSON BEIJING, China (AFP) — G20 leaders will meet in China this weekend in a climate of economic uncertainty and sluggish global growth –- but the absence of an urgent crisis means the forum will be short on breakthroughs, analysts say. Eight years after the first G20 summit in Washington, when countries coordinated a response to the financial meltdown, Beijing has set a modest agenda for the Hangzhou gathering — focusing on making […]
(Eagle News)– Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay said on Tuesday that the Philippines wants to assemble a provisional agreement with China on fishing rights before President Rodrigo Duterte’s trip to Beijing by the end of this year. Yasay told lawmakers on Tuesday that China should agree with the provisional agreement on fishing rights until the two disputing countries are able to come up with a solution. “We are even thinking about the possibility in the […]
(Eagle News) – “I hope that you treat us as brothers and not your enemies.” President Rodrigo Duterte made this appeal to the Chinese people in their treatment of Filipino fishermen who want to fish in the disputed waters of the West Philippine Sea. The President said that he would also not use the Philippine victory in the South China dispute in the ongoing talks with China. ”I will never bring the matter because it […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — An unsupervised Taiwanese naval officer who decided to experiment with a missile launcher and accidentally fired towards China was one of three people charged Monday over the fatal incident. The misfiring of the supersonic “aircraft carrier killer” last month struck a damaging blow to the military’s image, embarrassing new president Tsai Ing-wen and angering Beijing. The Hsiung-feng III (Brave wind) missile hit a Taiwanese trawler, killing the skipper on board and […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Shotaro Yachi, head of Japan’s National Security Council, met with Chinese state councilor Yang Jiechi on Thursday (August 25) for talks in Beijing. The two shook hands at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse before sitting down to talks in which they discussed improving relations between the two countries. Yachi is expected to meet Premier Li Keqiang later on Thursday afternoon. Sino-Japanese relations, coloured by Japan’s occupation of parts of China before and […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte told reporters on Wednesday that Southeast Asian countries will push China to respect the final ruling of the arbitration court in Hague even if our country does not bring it at a conference in Laos on September. “Whether we like it or not, that arbitral judgment would be insisted by the whole countries in Southeast Asia,”the President said. In July, China stressed a backlash statement about the ruling, stating that […]
