Extra duty to be in place for five years, ministry statement says, as Beijing appears to lean on trade tools to push cross-strait message.
China rejects Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos Jnr’s claims that its ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte was a ‘secret’ and urges Manila to stick to its commitments on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal.
US President Joe Biden calls for tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminium, while US Trade Representative office launches investigation into Beijing’s practices in logistics and shipbuilding industries.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to the three countries this week as Beijing steps up diplomacy with Southeast Asia amid US rivalry.
The name of the ship has already been criticised in China because it shares its name with an imperial warship that bombed Shanghai in the 1930s.
Study Times, a key Communist Party paper, publishes series by PLA experts on emerging weapons technology to take strategic high ground.
Ukraine’s drones have taken a heavy toll on Russian ships and ports, offering valuable lessons in asymmetrical warfare.
The trip by Hau Lung-bin, a former mayor of Taipei, to take part in a tribute in Zhengzhou to the Yellow King will come as former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou finishes an 11-day ‘journey of peace’ to the mainland.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells his French counterpart that Beijing is concerned about European efforts to ‘de-risk’ its relations with China
The former general, who will take office in October after his sweeping victory was confirmed last week, has been invited by President Xi Jinping.
A brief statement from Beijing provides few details beyond saying the Chinese coastguard had ‘handled the incident’.
Representatives from Taipei have been included in all three democracy summits, which were begun by US President Joe Biden in 2021, and mainland China has been excluded.
Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, meets with Chinese Ambassador Fan Xianrong about a proposed conference to be held in Switzerland.
Foreign ministry urges Seoul to refrain from ‘hyping the issue’ over recent confrontation between China and the Philippines.
PLA says increased military spending aims to ‘improve strategic capacity’ to defend sovereignty, security and development interests amid ‘instability and uncertainty’ and ‘complex and grim’ anti-separatist struggle.
Xi Jinping says the People’s Liberation Army needs to innovate and explore new types of combat force models.
Mobile payments limits will be increased and tourist attractions encouraged to accept cash and bank cards, central bank says.
Chinese defence ministry says Wellington risks harming its interests by engaging trilateral partnership.
Foreign ministry confirms barrier was set up at disputed Scarborough Shoal to ‘safeguard sovereignty’.
Wang Huning, the party’s No 4, tells a conference that officials must ‘advance the process of reunification’ this year.
Russian embassy in Beijing and the Chinese language Sputnik News service present Moscow’s narrative in bid for wider support.
The initiative is the latest effort to forge closer links between the two countries following a series of economic and security initiatives.
The two sides met to discuss a ‘complete disengagement’ along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh.
Chinese environment minister tells Kenji Kanasugi that Japan should ‘take responsibility’ for nuclear-contaminated water.
US Air Force secretary Frank Kendall says the move is designed to ‘meet strategic challenges in a time of great power competition’.
Manila’s recent order of more troops and construction on remote Batanes province prompts Beijing’s stern words urging ‘clear understanding’.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia’s Putin that both countries must ‘resolutely oppose’ external interference, asserting the need to defend sovereignty, security and development interests, CCTV reports.
Wei’s successor Li Shangfu was abruptly removed from his post last year, along with a number of other senior military figures.
The central American country’s foreign minister has said it hopes to develop a commercial relationship with mainland China.
Dong Jun, who assumed his new post in December, tells Sergei Shoigu that Beijing and Moscow should ‘elevate the relations between the two militaries to a higher level’.
