Beijing's top diplomat Wang Yi has urged Washington to "work with China" to improve ties during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday.
"With the rising strategic rivalry between the United States and China, India and France as middle powers in the international system are also trying to fill the strategic vacuum by engaging more with each other," said Shairee Malhotra, Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation.
The twin-rocket plan includes sending a pair of launch vehicles — one with a moon surface lander and another carrying the astronauts — into lunar orbit, said Zhang Hailian, deputy chief engineer with the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
Customs officers turned the snakes over to the relevant authorities.
Enes Kanter Freedom claimed his NBA journey ended abruptly after the league and his team Boston Celtics dumped him over his pro-Tibet and pro-Uyghur views.
Chinese citizens flocked to air raid shelters to keep themselves cool and away from the scorching heat as the world experienced its hottest week ever.
China also opposed NATO's "eastward movement into the Asia-Pacific region" and warned that "any act that jeopardizes China's legitimate rights and interests will be met with a resolute response."
Indonesia's foreign minister warned that Southeast Asia remains unsafe from nuclear weapons, urging nuclear states to sign the nuclear-weapons-free zone treaty.
Data from last year shows that the British government intervened in eight attempted takeovers of U.K. firms by Chinese investors due to fears relating to national security. "We have to be clear-eyed about protecting our national security, just in the same way that the Chinese are," Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said.
Taiwan is expected to take a page from Ukraine's military strategy against Russia in case an armed conflict with China breaks out.
"Currencies will remain a national issue for a long time to come," India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said amid speculations of Russia, China and other BRICS nations planning an alternative to dollar.
A harsh anti-America commentator in China was called a hypocrite on Chinese social media after he was seen attending a Fourth of July event at the U.S. Embassy.
Experts are concerned about the impact of a potential conflict between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, urging the two world leaders to hold talks.
China's commerce ministry on Thursday said recent curbs on essential chip-making metals were not aimed at any specific country and that they did not represent a "ban on exports".
Former President Dmitry Medvedev suggested that Russia could use its nuclear weapons to end the war in Ukraine, which has been going on for more than 16 months.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is due to arrive in Beijing on Thursday, kicking off a high-level visit aimed at improving communication and stabilizing the tense relationship between the world's top two economies.
The Philippines is buying more supersonic BrahMos missiles from India and the navies are countries' militaries are deepening their own ties.
A former British Army officer believes China would turn its back on Russian President Vladimir Putin if he used tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war.
"Given China's outsized role in adding to carbon pollution, it needs to move away from coal power-- fast. Yet when clean power runs short, including when climate-fueled drought shuts hydropower plants down, China falls back on coal. To succeed at emissions reduction, China needs to break that cycle," climate risk expert Alice C. Hill told IBT.
"The move, in the present context seems to indicate that Delhi is willing to go further in its messaging to China. This comes after India had already decided to send Indian warships in area while the two navies regularly exercise," said Frédéric Grare, a senior policy fellow with the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to visit Beijing this week, the United States said Sunday, marking the second trip by a cabinet official to China since ties between the world's top two economies deteriorated earlier this year.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview that aired Wednesday she hopes to travel to China to "reestablish contact" with Beijing despite differences between the two countries.
