Monthly Archives: July 2018

Gun violence & expensive healthcare: China warns tourists about perils of traveling to US

Chinese tourists traveling to the US should be ever vigilant as gun violence and robberies are rampant, healthcare is expensive and natural disasters can occur at any moment, China’s Washington embassy has warned. Shootings, robberies and theft are commonplace in US cities as law and order “is not good” there, the embassy cautioned in newly […]

Japan will deploy a helicopter carrier to the South China Sea and Indian Ocean. How will Beijing respond?

Japan’s growing visibility in those waters reflects concern it shares with the United States over China’s military presence in a region through which trade routes pass that are vital to the Japanese and US economies Japan will send a large helicopter carrier to the South China Sea and Indian Ocean for a second straight year […]

Russia to build new nuclear power units in China

Moscow and Beijing may sign agreements to build two more nuclear power units in China, according to Russia’s state nuclear power corporation Rosatom. “We’ve signed new intergovernmental accords with our Chinese partners for construction of the sixth and seventh Tianwan units and on provision of a new site for us,” said Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev […]

Exclusive: China presses Europe for anti-U.S. alliance on trade

BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) – China is putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against President Donald Trump’s trade policies at a summit later this month but is facing resistance, European officials said. In meetings in Brussels, Berlin and Beijing, senior Chinese officials, including Vice Premier Liu He and the Chinese government’s […]

Malaysia reiterates neutral stand on South China Sea

SUNGAI DUA: Malaysia’s stand in maintaining South China Sea’s status as a free and safe zone for all the countries in the region will be personally made known to China. Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is expected to visit China soon. He said he had personally conveyed Malaysia’s stand […]

Facebook removes Paracel, Spratly Islands from China’s map at Vietnam’s request

Social network giant Facebook has complied with a request by the Vietnamese government regarding a wrongful depiction of its sovereignty. As of Monday afternoon, a map used for Facebook’s advertising tool was found to have completely removed Paracel (Hoang Sa) and Spratly (Truong Sa) Islands in the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East […]