US and British officials on Monday filed charges, imposed sanctions, and accused Beijing of a sweeping cyberespionage campaign that allegedly hit millions of people including lawmakers, academics and journalists, and companies including defense contractors. Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic nicknamed the hacking group Advanced Persistent Threat 31 or "APT31", calling it an arm of China's Ministry of State Security. Officials reeled off a laundry list of targets: White House staffers, US...
Prime minister Mark Rutte and foreign trade minister Geoffrey van Leeuwen are heading for China next week for meetings with president Xi Jinping and prime minister Li Qiang. It is the first time since 2018 that Rutte will have met the Chinese leader for talks in China itself. China was closed to outsiders during the coronavirus pandemic but the two leaders did meet during the G20 summit on Bali last year. Rutte and Xi will discuss economic ties between the
China and Australia claimed to have stabilised long-strained relations after talks in Canberra on Wednesday, despite tensions over a high-profile prisoner, trade and China’s crackdowns in Hong Kong and elsewhere remaining evident. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Australia for the first time since 2017, marking a diplomatic thaw between two trading partners who have […]
China said Tuesday the United States had "no right" to interfere in the South China Sea, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington stood by its commitments to defend the Philippines against armed attack in the disputed waterway. "The United States is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to interfere in maritime issues that are between China and the Philippines," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a regular press conference in Beijing. Blinken is in the...
BEIJING: China said Tuesday the United States had "no right" to interfere in the South China Sea, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington stood by its commitments to defend the Philippines against armed attack in the disputed waterway."The United States is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to interfere in maritime issues that are between China and the Philippines," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a regular press conference in Beijing.Blinken is in...
There's word on Sunday that China has continued its aggressive moves in territory within the South China Sea that it claims belongs to it, this time against some ships from the Philippines. We've written previously about similar moves by the Chinese military, some of which they deigned to blame on others, including the U.S. military:
This live blog is now closed. For more on the US’s vetoed UN resolution, you can read our latest reporting:US resolution on Gaza ceasefire vetoed at UN by Russia and ChinaExplainer – Why did Russia and China veto US’s Gaza ceasefire resolution?The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that “hundreds of worshipers” were “blocked” from reaching the al-Aqsa mosque compound by Israeli forces on Friday.According to Wafa: “Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces significantly increased their military...
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Both countries accuse each other of distorting prices for green technology by subsidizing domestic firms.
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According to a new review by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) ‘Eurasian Infrastructure: Short and Medium Term Trends’ , in 2023, the Eurasian region (EAEU countries, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) significantly increased trade with China. The report shows that in the first ten months of the year, the foreign trade turnover of the Eurasian region […]
Police are stopping people in public and checking their phones for apps used to get around censorship.