This updates a previously published story with new information. China is still preparing to send a delegation to Washington for the trade talks despite the latest threats by US President Donald Trump to increase tariffs, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Monday. “There have been many times that the US side has threatened to […] Read more
Sen. Bernie Sanders hopes to set himself apart from his most formidable 2020 rival on a signature issue: trade. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has led Sanders in early Democratic presidential primary polling since entering the race a week ago, raised eyebrows Wednesday by downplaying the economic threat posed by China. At a campaign […] Read more
Beijing’s acceptance of two Vatican-approved bishop candidates from Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi sends a “cautiously positive” signal over their controversial agreement ahead of Good Friday, experts said. But they expected new tensions to emerge amid uncertainty over the fate of the unofficial church in China. The South China Morning Post reported last month that […] Read more
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a new exhibition featuring Lego portraits of Mexican students who were reportedly massacred in 2014. He unveiled the provocative artworks at a gallery in Mexico City on Thursday. They depict the faces of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College pupils who were kidnapped and disappeared in Iguala, Mexico. […] Read more
China and the European Union may not be able to issue a joint statement during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Brussels next week, as the two sides are bickering over the extent to which access to China’s market should be improved, EU sources have told the South China Morning Post. Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and […] Read more
European and Chinese leaders sought to reassure each other over economic cooperation on Tuesday despite the increasing US move towards protectionism, as leading EU figures said they were still open to joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative. French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hosting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the final leg of his […] Read more
The senior Chinese official who oversees state-sanctioned Christian churches has pledged to rid the faith in China of any Western “imprint” and called for further “Sinicisation” of religion. Xu Xiaohong, chairman of the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), a government-controlled body that runs state-approved Protestant churches, on Monday attacked what Beijing perceived […] Read more
China is becoming increasingly isolated in its refusal to list as a terrorist the founder of the Pakistan-based organisation responsible for the suicide bombing in Kashmir on February 14. The US, Britain, France and Russia on Wednesday backed India’s long-standing call for the UN Security Council’s sanctions committee to blacklist Masood Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad […] Read more
HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump cut his losses here Thursday.After traveling halfway around the world for a face-to-face meeting with one of the world’s most notorious despots — with hopes of persuading the dictator to give up his nuclear weapons cache — the president who considers himself the world’s ultimate deal-maker pushed away from […] Read more
It’s unclear whether North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is going to give up his nukes anytime soon, and the same could probably be said for his cigarettes. Footage by Japan’s TBS TV showed Kim, a habitual smoker, taking a pre-dawn smoke break Tuesday at a train station in China hours before his arrival in […] Read more
