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BEIJING, June 19, 2023 (AFP) — China and the United States must choose between “cooperation or conflict”, Beijing’s top diplomat told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, state media reported. “It is necessary to make a choice between dialogue and confrontation, cooperation or conflict,” Wang Yi told Blinken during a meeting in Beijing, according to a readout from Chinese state media. Blinken spoke to Wang — whose position in the Communist Party ranks […]
By Hui Min NEO Agence France-Presse BERLIN, June 19, 2023 (AFP) – China’s Premier Li Qiang will meet German leaders during a trip to Berlin on Monday, at a time when Beijing’s policies on Russia, trade and human rights are receiving an increasingly hostile reception in the West. Li — who is making his first trip abroad since being appointed premier in March — will begin his two-nation tour with so-called “government consultations” involving talks […]
BEIJING, June 18, 2023 (AFP) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday began the highest-level trip by a US official to China in nearly five years as the two powers looked to notch down the temperature in an escalating rivalry. Both sides have voiced guarded hope of improving communication and preventing conflict, with the world’s two largest economies at odds on an array of issues from trade to technology and regional security. Officials though […]
BEIJING, June 16, 2023 (AFP) – Temperatures in Beijing hit a record for mid-June of 39.4 degrees Celsius (103 Fahrenheit) on Friday, China’s meteorological authority said, warning the public to stay indoors. “At around 2:30 pm on June 16, the temperature at Beijing’s Nanjiao observatory hit 39.4 degrees Celsius, breaking the record high for mid-June,” the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) wrote in a social media post. The CMA said the coming days would see temperatures […]
BEIJING, June 15, 2023 (AFP) – Messi mania gripped Beijing ahead of a sell-out friendly on Thursday evening between world champions Argentina and Australia in the Chinese capital. All eyes were on Lionel Messi, arguably the greatest footballer of all time and who lifted the World Cup for Argentina in December. Hundreds of Chinese fans waving Argentinian flags and wearing Messi jerseys have massed outside the team’s luxury hotel ever since their idol touched down […]
MANILA, June 14, 2023 (AFP) — A Chinese navy training vessel berthed in the Philippines on Wednesday for a rare port visit as the two countries contest reefs and waters in the South China Sea. Dragon dances and a brass band greeted the 165-metre (542-foot) Qi Jiguang in Manila to mark its final stop on a Southeast Asian tour through Vietnam, Thailand and Brunei. “It’s a goodwill visit,” Chinese ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian […]
SEOUL, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – South Korea has charged a former Samsung executive accused of stealing company secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to set up a copycat chip factory in China, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. Semiconductors have become a flashpoint issue between the United States and China, which are locked in a fierce battle over access to chip-making technology and supplies. South Korean prosecutors said the 65-year-old former Samsung employee allegedly […]
MOSCOW, June 9, 2023 (AFP) – Russian armed forces chief of staff Valery Gerasimov said on Friday his country’s strong military partnership with China provides stability around the world. Gerasimov, who is commander of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, made the remark during a videoconference with his Chinese counterpart, Liu Zhenli. “The coordination of Russian and Chinese efforts on the international stage has a stabilising effect on the global situation,” Gerasimov told Liu, according to […]
BEIJING, June 9, 2023 (AFP) – China warned the United States Friday against “interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs”, in response to reports that Beijing was planning to set up a spy base on the island just off American shores. The media reports, based on comments by anonymous US officials to The Wall Street Journal and CNN, were dismissed by Cuba’s deputy foreign minister as “mendacious and unfounded”, while the White House called them inaccurate. When […]
TAIPEI, June 9, 2023 (AFP) – More than 30 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan’s air defence zone over the course of about six hours, the island’s defence ministry said Thursday, a sharp ramp-up in single-day incursions by China’s military. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to take it one day — by force if necessary. In recent years, Beijing has intensified aerial incursions into the island’s air defence identification zone — nearly […]
By Celia CAZALE and Holmes CHAN Agence France-Presse HONG KONG, June 9, 2023 (AFP) – Ten years after a giant inflatable yellow duck captivated crowds in Hong Kong, the art installation returned to the city’s Victoria Harbor on Friday as a double-bill exhibition. The twin 18-metre-tall (59-feet) sculptures by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman are part of the Rubber Duck series that has made appearances in major cities since its 2007 debut. The faddish artwork previously […]
BEIJING, China, June 7, 2023 (AFP) — Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end. China’s education ministry says nearly 13 million students, a record, are registered to take the “gaokao” exams — billed by state media as the “world’s toughest” — this year. “I’ve been waking up at 4 am every day, except […]
