China launched military exercises pressing in on Taiwan on Tuesday, in what Beijing said was a warning to the island-democracy’s president, Lai Ching-te, after he called China a “foreign hostile force.” Chinese land, navy, air and missile forces would “approach close” to Taiwan and practice “seizure of overall control, strikes on sea and land targets,…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that there would be “consequences” if Venezuela used forceful actions in asserting claims to resource-rich territories that are under the control of neighboring Guyana. Mr. Rubio said at a news conference in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital, that the U.S. government would steadfastly oppose “the regional threats based…
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister on Friday urged foreign ministers from China, South Korea and Japan to focus on finding common ground ahead of a key joint meeting of the three Asian power houses the following day. The meeting on Saturday will see Japan’s Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi…
Despite high tensions between the Trump administration and some of America’s closest allies over tariffs and Ukraine, foreign ministers from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies who were meeting this week in Canada forged common ground in a communiqué that glossed over many of their sharp differences. Top diplomats from Canada, the host of the…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that he hoped a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine could take place within “days” if Russian leaders agreed, and that he planned to get diplomats from the Group of 7 allied nations to focus on ending the war in a meeting this week in Canada. “Here’s what…
After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an extraordinary statement that was largely lost in the fray of the moment. “The excuse that he’s giving for these tariffs today of fentanyl is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,” Mr. Trudeau told the news media in Ottawa. “What he…
Chinese state news agency Xinhua said it would deepen cooperation with Japan’s Kyodo News as Beijing aimed to create a “favourable public opinion environment” for Sino-Japanese ties. Xinhua’s president Fu Hua met his Kyodo counterpart Toru Mizutani in Tokyo on Monday. Fu said Beijing was willing to “further strengthen exchanges and cooperation” between China’s official…
India and China have agreed to resume direct flights between the two countries after nearly five years, the latest thaw between the two Asian giants that until recently were on war-footing over a deadly border dispute. The rapprochement also included agreements on improving access to journalists from both sides and facilitating pilgrimages to a Hindu…
BEIJING — The top diplomats of China and India called for their nations to provide further mutual support, but avoided publicly mentioning a long-standing border dispute in the Himalayas when they met Monday in Beijing. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told top Indian foreign affairs official Vikram Misri that the sides “should seize the opportunity,…
“Despite repeated dissuasion and warnings from China, the Philippines insisted on sending four coastguard ships, six official ships, and several unidentified ships to intrude into China’s Huangyan Island territorial waters and nearby waters such as Xianbin Reef in the Nansha Islands,” China Coast Guard spokesman Liu Dejun said on Thursday, using the Chinese terms for…