SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the Philippines to work with China to seek an effective way to defuse tensions in the South China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The comments come amid rising tensions between the two countries over the location of a grounded warship that serves …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state media on Saturday rejected a Western claim that developed nations were shunning the country’s Belt and Road Forum, while saying most of the leaders invited this year were from developing nations. Critics see the ambitious Belt and Road initiative – billed as recreating the ancient Silk Road to boost global …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Yellow smoke blanketed parts of a northern Chinese city after a leak of acidic substances from a warehouse owned by a manufacturer of children products, state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) said on Saturday. The incident took place in Xingtai in Hebei province, and was brought under control by the fire department and …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. and China will approve twice the number of passenger flights currently permitted for air carriers to fly between the two countries, the Biden administration said on Friday, in a rare sign of cooperation between the world’s largest two economies. The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) said it would will …
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By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called China a “ticking time bomb” because of economic challenges including weak growth, but misquoted the country’s growth rate. “They have got some problems. That’s not good because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things,” Biden …
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By Andrea Shalal and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s comment about China being a “ticking time bomb” referred to internal economic and social tensions that could have an effect on how Beijing interacts with the world, a White House official said Friday. White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that one area …
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By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – Record heat and historic floods in China this summer have failed to ignite domestic public debate about how the world’s top carbon polluter can mitigate climate change, leaving campaigners frustrated at an opportunity missed. While state media and officials have said in the past that climate change makes …
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By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -China is likely to launch military drills next week near Taiwan, using Vice President William Lai’s stopovers in the United States as a pretext to intimidate voters ahead of an election next year and make them “fear war,” Taiwanese officials said. The U.S. transits by Lai, who is the front-runner …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers called on FIFA to recognize the exiled Afghanistan women’s soccer team, in a letter sent to the sport’s international governing body on Friday. The team has been playing in exile in Australia since the Taliban took control of the Afghan government in August …
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NAHR-E-SHAHI, Afghanistan (Reuters) – In parched brown hills in north Afghanistan, Abdul Hahad tears stalks of wheat out of the arid earth. In the third year of water shortages and high temperatures, his harvest is barely enough to support his family. The 55-year-old farmer from Nahr-e-Shahi district in Balkh province used to plant two or …
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