BEIJING (Reuters) – Cooperation between China and Japan should be fair and open, and both sides should not “artificially” set restrictions and engage in “decoupling”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday. In a video address delivered at the opening of the 19th Beijing-Tokyo Forum, Wang said both countries should attach great importance to …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Thailand should step up efforts to crack down on cross-border crimes such as telecommunications fraud and online gambling, President Xi Jinping told Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in Beijing on Thursday. China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Thailand within multilateral frameworks, state media China Central Television quoted Xi as …
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By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – The Taliban administration wants to formally join Chinese President Xi Jinping’s huge ‘Belt and Road’ infrastructure initiative and will send a technical team to China for talks, Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister said on Thursday. Beijing has sought to develop its ties with the Taliban-run government since it took over …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said on Thursday it had invited Australia to join two regular command post military exercises conducted with the United States for the first time. Japan’s Minister of Defence Minoru Kihara said he discussed Australia’s participation in the drills during talks in Tokyo with his counterpart from Canberra, Richard Marles. The first …
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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A Pakistan court on Thursday barred authorities from arresting a former three-time prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, upon his expected return home on Saturday from four years in self-imposed exile, his lawyer said. Lawyer Azam Nazeer Tarar told reporters that Sharif had been granted protective bail, under which authorities could not …
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By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will make state visits to Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Oct. 21-26 and discuss business cooperation as well as security conditions linked to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, his office said on Thursday. South Korea has serious concerns over the sharp increase in civilian casualties from …
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By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) -China has formally arrested a Japanese businessman who was detained in March on suspicion of espionage, the Japanese government said on Thursday, calling on Beijing to release its national to avoid the issue becoming another thorn in relations. “We have also strongly urged China for an immediate …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China believes the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should play a constructive role and shoulder responsibility to monitor Japan’s water discharge from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday. Mao Ning, ministry spokesperson, made the remarks when asked why China is participating in an IAEA-led survey in …
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IWAKI, Japan (Reuters) – A team of international scientists collected fish samples from a port town near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, seeking to assess the impact of the plant’s recent release of treated radioactive water into the sea. The study by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog is the first since the water release …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, as the two countries forge closer ties in the face of what they see as a hostile and aggressive U.S.-led Western camp. Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported that Lavrov’s meeting …
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