BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry urged Europe on Friday not to have any official exchanges with Taiwan or support “independence forces” ahead of a planned trip to the continent next week by Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. Taiwan, which is claimed by China, has no formal diplomatic ties with any European country except the …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s parliamentary budget committee has approved additional 15 trillion rupiah ($1.01 billion) to speed up construction of the flagship new capital Nusantara, a senior lawmaker said on Friday. Said Abdullah, the committee’s chair, said the additional 15 trillion will go to this year’s construction, on top of the 22 trillion rupiah previously …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea summoned China’s ambassador on Friday to issue a protest, describing comments made by the envoy warning Seoul against making “wrong bets” in the Sino-U.S. rivalry as “provocative” and a possible interference in internal affairs. Xing Haiming made the remarks during a meeting late on Thursday …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -A former deputy governor of China’s central bank, Fan Yifei, has been expelled from the Communist Party and removed from his post for serious violations of discipline and law, state media CCTV reported on Friday. Fan, 59, held the deputy governor post of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) since early 2015 but …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese coastal patrol ship Haixun03 started patrolling waters around Hainan Island and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea from June 8, Chinese state media reported on Friday. The patrol aims to inspect ships in these waters, state broadcaster CCTV said. It will continue for around one month and cover 900 nautical …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Non-stop heavy rains lashed parts of southwest China on Friday, triggering floods in cities, engulfing roads and partially submerging buildings. A particularly harsh first bout of summer rains known locally as “dragon boat water” saw the city of Beihai in Guangxi log 453 millimetres on Thursday. That was a regional daily record …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Legislation to strip China of its status as a “developing nation” at some international organizations was passed by a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday, as members of the U.S. focus on competing with the Asian power. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the “Ending China’s Developing Nation Status Act” …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators said on Thursday they had proposed barring the Federal Aviation Administration from buying or using Chinese-made drones. Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, and Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who chairs the Intelligence Committee, proposed legislation that would also prohibit the FAA from providing federal funds to …
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By Matt Spetalnick and Dave Sherwood WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) -China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 100 miles (160 km) from Florida, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, but the U.S. and Cuban governments cast strong doubt on the report. Such a spy installation …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday dismissed a report in the Wall Street Journal about Chinese plans to set up an electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba, saying it was not aware of any such effort and characterizing the report as “inaccurate.” “I can tell you based on the information that we have, that that …
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