STORY HIGHLIGHTSNew intelligence reports suggest North Korea planning multiple missile launch Traditional ally China increasingly irritated by regime under Kim Jong Un President Xi Jinping: No country should be allowed to throw region into chaos Analysts believe Kim is under pressure to justify his position at home Editor's note: "Jaime's China" is a weekly column…
STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Kerry says Japan, U.S. ready to work with North Korea to resolve tensions Kerry's visit to Japan is the last stop in his Asia tour North Korea tells Tokyo to "stop recklessly working for staging a comeback on Korea" Kerry: China and the U.S. call on Pyongyang to refrain from provocative steps Are…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, gestures while shaking hands with China's Premier Li Keqiang during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai compound in Beijing Saturday, April 13, 2013. The question of how Washington can persuade Beijing to exert real pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's unpredictable regime is front and center as…
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said it was mobilizing resources nationwide to combat a new strain of deadly bird flu that has killed four people, as Japan and Hong Kong stepped up vigilance against the virus and Vietnam banned imports of Chinese poultry.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects drills by the Korean People's Army (KPA) Navy at an undisclosed location on North Korea's east coast in a photo from the state-run Korean Central News Agency taken on March 25, 2013.Kim makes his way to an observation post with North Korean soldiers on March 25.Kim uses a…
STORY HIGHLIGHTSPeng Liyuan, wife of China's new president Xi Jinping, made her debut as China's First Lady She is a popular soprano, widely known in China for her soaring, glass-breaking voice Chinese analysts think Peng can similarly help burnish China's image overseas "Our only concern is, she might unintentionally upstage our No. 1 leader" Editor's…
STORY HIGHLIGHTSXi Jinping to make first foreign visit to Moscow on Saturday The choice is symbolic and demonstrates warming ties between the two countries Trade between the two countries reached $88.1 billion in 2012 Officials hope Moscow and Beijing will ink long-stalled pipeline project (CNN) -- China's President Xi Jinping's choice of Moscow as his…
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Decorated with Chinese paintings and red silk armchairs, a huge business complex on the edge of Moscow is the kind of enterprise China's new leader Xi Jinping wants to nurture when he arrives on Friday in Russia for his first overseas trip.
Buy AP Photo Reprints KOROR, Palau (AP) — Ahmat Abdulahad can't help but laugh at the irony of his predicament.He and five other Chinese Muslims released from America's Guantanamo military prison in 2009 thought they would be living on this remote island for a few months, maybe a year.But more than three years later, they…
STORY HIGHLIGHTSNorth Korean officials said the Korean Armistice Agreement is to be scrapped Jennifer Lind: Even Beijing signed on to sanctions against its longtime ally Has China finally had enough? But she says China may still prefer the status quo Lind: If North Korea collapses, it could potentially destabilize the region, which China fears Editor's…
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