I am really shocked about this one, this is something that I thought would never happen in my lifetime, I didn’t think that this would be something that North Korea would want to agree to. Maybe this is all just some good political imaging, and nothing has really changed between these countries, but this gives a really big sign of… Read more »
www.bbc.com China’s economy grew by 6.9% in 2017 according to official data – the first time in seven years the pace of growth has picked up. The figure beats Beijing’s official annual expansion target of about 6.5%. China is a key driver of the global economy and so the better-than-expected data is likely to cheer investors around the world. But… Read more »
www.theguardian.com Four senior Indian supreme court judges have gone public with an extraordinary warning that India’s chief justice is mishandling sensitive cases and endangering the court’s integrity and the country’s democracy. The four judges, the most senior members of the bench after the chief justice, abruptly left their courtrooms on Friday morning and called the first press conference by members… Read more »
www.telegraph.co.uk North and South Korea have agreed to form a joint women’s hockey team and march under the same flag for a parade at next month’s Winter Olympics, in a major step towards easing tensions on the peninsula. Officials from both sides hope the games, which will be held just 50 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) will help… Read more »
www.cnn.com India has successfully test-fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the country’s Defense Ministry said Thursday. The nuclear-capable Agni-V is believed to be India’s most advanced ICBM. It was fired Thursday morning India time from Abdul Kalam island off the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, the ministry said in a tweet. It called the test a “major… Read more »
In my personal opinion, I think that this whole issue with the drone landing in China is just another excuse for the politicians of their respected countries to make untrue rants back at one another to say that “their country is not the bad guy, the other country is the one everyone should be hating, we did absolutely nothing to… Read more »
www.cnn.com (CNN)A senior United Nations official arrived in North Korea Tuesday for the first visit of its kind in six years, as US and South Korean military drills inflame tensions in the region. Jeffrey Feltman, the UN’s undersecretary-general for Political Affairs, will meet with officials and discuss “issues of mutual interest and concern,” the UN announced. The visit comes just… Read more »
www.cnn.com (CNN)Democrats have placed a hold on the nomination of KT McFarland to be ambassador to Singapore until she answers their questions about her knowledge of communications between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, a Democratic source told CNN. McFarland told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in written comments that she “was not aware” of… Read more »
www.bbc.com An Indian drone has “invaded China’s airspace and crashed” on its territory, Chinese state media said. Zhang Shuili, deputy director of the western theatre combat bureau, said the incident took place in “recent days”. He did not give an exact location. He was quoted in Xinhua news agency as saying that India had “violated China’s territorial sovereignty”. The Indian… Read more »
www.bbc.com The Chinese government has scaled back its ambitious plans to eradicate coal-fired heating for this winter amid a shortage of gas. Beijing had ordered the nation’s northern provinces to convert from coal to cleaner fuel by the end of this year to reduce pollution. However, in many places the transition had not been completed or gas supplies proved inadequate…. Read more »