What will China’s Chang’e-4 mission learn about the far side of the Moon? Here are a few things the mission is designed to do. Learn about the Moon’s history No space mission has ever explored the far side from the surface. As such, it’s the first chance to explore a mysterious region of Earth’s natural satellite. The “face” that’s never… Read more »
A high-flying Chinese executive has been caught in the centre of a growing geo-political dispute between two of the world’s largest economies.
A Canadian, reported to be a former diplomat, has been detained in China and his current employer says it is working for his prompt release.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Russia held firm as China’s top crude oil supplier in December for the 10th month and racked up its second year as the No.1 supplier to China in 2017, customs data showed on Thursday, leaving rival exporter Saudi Arabia in second place once more. Shipments from Russia hit 5.03 million tonnes in December, down 0.2 percent from… Read more »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Defence Ministry on Thursday denied that it was planning to build a military base in Afghanistan, branding such reports “groundless”. Russian news agency Ferghana News, which focuses on Central Asia, has reported that China will build the base in northern Afghanistan. The report was picked up last week by U.S. magazine The Diplomat and then in… Read more »
Out of all the countries involved and affected by the North Korean crisis, by far the most impacted is South Korea. Their proximity to the DPRK is surely causing distress in South Korea due to the current missile testing coming from Pyongyang. I think that it is a very smart move on South Korea’s part to be restoring ties with… Read more »
France 24 South Korean President Moon Jae-In will meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing Thursday amid mixed US signals about potential talks to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis. Relations between Beijing and Seoul have encountered their own rough patch over the US military’s deployment of a powerful anti-missile defence system in the South to counter the… Read more »
BBC A police investigation into child abuse in a Chinese kindergarten has dismissed all but one of the main accusations, causing widespread social media outrage, with parents turning to lawyers. It is also leading some to question China’s entire system of governance and accountability. When we arrived at the gates of the kindergarten on the eastern outskirts of Beijing, parents… Read more »
It seems that China and South Korea seem to be pursuing the same type of solution for the North Korea crisis. This solution is the more diplomatic approach. China wishes to avoid conflict by re-implementing the six-party talks in order to convince North Korea to denuclearize. Meanwhile, South Korea is refusing to fight fire with fire and, against the opinion… Read more »
France 24 A day after the UN imposed strict new sanctions on North Korea, China’s foreign minister called Sunday for the resumption of six-party talks to halt Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and warned that the crisis was entering a “critical” new phase. In a 15-0 vote on Saturday, the UN Security Council imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea that could… Read more »