China’s Foreign Ministry did not mince words, saying Washington should immediately correct its “mistakes” before it’s too late or face the consequences for the decision. “We strongly call on the US to remedy the mistake and cancel the sanctions. Otherwise, the US has to bear the consequences,” spokesperson Geng Shuang said as cited by Chinese media.

“We had lived together for five thousand years but apart for just 70 years. Here, at this place today, I propose we move forward toward the big picture of peace in which the past 70-year-long hostility can be eradicated and we can become one again.” — South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

Australia’s plans to return to the Lombrum Naval Base on Manus that it previously occupied in Papua New Guinea prior to the island state’s independence is a power play for leadership in the South Pacific on behalf of the Quad’s desire to “contain” China in this strategic space.

Au deuxième jour de la visite du Président Moon Jae-in au Nord de la Corée, le 19 septembre 2018, de multiples accords et promesses témoignent d`une volonté résolue d`aller de l`avant dans les relations Nord-Sud et pour garantir la paix sur la péninsule coréenne. Le Président Kim Jong-un avait déjà signifié toute l`importance qu`il accorde à la visite du chef d`Etat sud-coréen en l`accueillant personnellement à l`aéroport puis en le recevant au siège du Comité central du Parti du travail de Corée.

Le Président sud-coréen Moon Jae-in est arrivé à Pyongyang pour son troisième sommet avec Kim Jong-un, a-t-on appris ce mardi. La dénucléarisation de la péninsule coréenne sera mise au cœur des discussions.

China has become a fertile land for global entrepreneurs and innovation, with new growth drivers breaking new ground for the country`s economic development, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday.

The two Koreas have agreed to take further steps toward peace following a one-on-one meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is on his first ever visit to Pyongyang.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have signed a joint statement following their bilateral talks in Pyongyang. The countries` defense chiefs have meanwhile signed a separate military pact. As part of the military agreement, the neighbors will halt border drills from November 1, Yonhap reports. South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo and North Korea`s No Kwang-chol also agreed to stop military flights in the vicinity of the demarcation line.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says he seeks “bigger outcome at a faster pace” in a three-day summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang than the two leaders of the Korean Peninsula have achieved so far.

Proposals put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the fourth Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) will inject fresh impetus in the bilateral cooperation between China and Russia and the cooperation in the wider region, international observers have said.

Fiji’s inclusion as the latest member of the US’ anti-Daesh coalition in Syria has nothing at all to do with protecting the island nation’s people from the world’s worst terrorist group but is the US’ way of pressuring the country to send a none-too-subtle signal to China.

Es hätte den Militäreinsatz im Inneren zum "Selbstschutz" gegen Demonstranten erlaubt, ohne dafür eine parlamentarische Zustimmung zu benötigen.

China`s industrial output expanded 6.1 percent year on year in August, slightly higher than the 6-percent rise in the previous month, official data showed Friday.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday expressed the expectation that China and Japan should consolidate the current momentum of improvement in ties and promote the relationship to move steadily forward on the basis of the development of the ties returning to the right track.

Facebook gilt als größte „Nation“ der Netzwelt: Mit mehr als zwei Milliarden „Bewohnern“ ist es weit größer als China oder Indien. 2015 wählte Facebook eine neue Strategie, um noch schneller zu wachsen. Mit dem anmaßenden Projekt internet.org, das aufgrund erheblichen Widerstands kurze Zeit später in Free Basics umbenannt wurde, beabsichtigt Facebook insgesamt 100 ärmere Länder „smart“ zu entwickeln: Ein auf drei Dutzend Webanbieter reduziertes Gratis-Internet per Smartphone-App soll „den Armen“ Facebooks Auswahl an Internetangeboten und Facebooks Form der Konnektivität aufprägen. In Indien hat dieses neokoloniale Vernetzungsprojekt im Februar 2016 aufgrund massiven Widerstands der SaveTheInternet-Bewegung einen Rückschlag erlitten.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry says Beijing will respond if the United States takes any new steps on trade after Washington threatened to levy additional taxes on practically all Chinese imports.

The New York Times reports on China`s re-education program for Uygurs in Xinjiang, who are in danger for falling to Islamist extremism. The report is part of a larger U.S. campaign to instrumentalize the issue as a pressure point against China. It is a strategic issue for both sides.

The Chinese government is employing a unique strategy to reduce the threat of terrorism in its historically unstable Tibet and Xinjiang autonomous regions. By providing new jobs and better housing, the government has managed to quell the threat of separatism.

Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko gave a letter from President Vladimir Putin to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a Russian delegation`s visit to Pyongyang.

Late Wednesday evening North Korea announced it would pursue denuclearization by the end of President Trump`s first term, or by early 2021. The announcement came via South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his national security advisor Chung Eui-yong, who met with North Korea`s Kim Jong Un the day prior.

Der nordkoreanische Staatschef Kim Jong-un hat dem Sondergesandten Seouls eine Botschaft an die Behörden der Vereinigten Staaten übergeben. Dies meldet die südkoreanische Nachrichtenagentur Yonhap.

North Korea has received a high-ranking South Korean presidential delegation in Pyongyang for talks to arrange another inter-Korean summit this month, as talks between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled over disagreements on denuclearization.

Japan says it is pressing the US for exemptions from new sanctions to continue oil imports from Iran.

Questions raised over mission of South Korean train to the North – and on the limits of South Korean sovereignty

China will improve the use and management of public spending on education to promote fair and quality education.

North Korea is reportedly set to stage a new military parade as diplomatic efforts on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula show no sign of progress.

US President Donald Trump tweeted a White House statement on Wednesday that he "feels strongly that North Korea is under tremendous pressure from China because of our major trade disputes with the Chinese government." The statement also said China`s aid to North Korea was "not helpful."

I wrote recently, in an article intended for publication on the Australian blog “Pearls and Irritations", but finally published by 21st Century Wire, the apparent retreat from Syria by Western powers has seen a resurgence in abusive criticism of the “victorious” Assad government – as well as of its allies Russia and Iran.

300.000 Soldaten sollen an Vostok-2018 teilnehmen, die Kosten werden von Moskau mit der angespannten internationalen Situation begründet. Russland wird zusammen mit China und der Mongolei vom 11. bis 15. September eine gewaltige Militärübung starten. Nach dem russischen Verteidigungsminister Sergei Shoigu werden an Vostok-2018 300.000 Soldaten sowie 1000 Flugzeuge, Hubschrauber und Drohnen sowie die russische Marine teilnehmen. Es handle sich um die größten Manöver seit 37 Jahren. 1981 waren aber "nur" 150.000 sowjetische Soldaten an der Zapad-81-Übung beteiligt. Jetzt wird also ein Drittel der russischen Streitkräfte mit etwa einer Million Soldaten für die Großübungen aufgeboten. Klar ist auch hier, dass für große zwischenstaatliche Konflikte, für die Landesverteidigung, geübt wird

China`s western regions recorded a GDP growth rate of 7.4 percent in the first half of 2018, 0.6 percentage points higher than the national average, an official of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Thursday, highlighting the achievement of the country`s western development drive.

Deepening the mutual trust of young people is of fundamental importance to the long-term cooperation and friendship between China and Japan, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Wednesday.

Myanmar’s embattled leader Aung San Suu Kyi has resorted to literature instead of addressing the critical humanitarian issues regarding her country’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority in her first public appearance a day after a damning report by the United Nations confirmed that “genocide” had occurred in the country under her watch.

Après l`annulation du voyage de Mike Pompeo, la Corée du Nord soupçonne Washington de fomenter «un complot criminel» contre Pyongyang. De son côté, Donald Trump assure avoir hâte de revoir Kim Jong-un et accuse la Chine de ne pas assez coopérer.

Upcoming China-Nepal joint military exercises underline burgeoning bilateral relations that have eroded India`s influence in the Himalayan republic

Die Studentin der Moskauer Universität MGIMO beim Außenministerium Russlands, Diana Karabegowitsch, hat einen zweimonatigen Sprachkurs an der Kim-Il-Sung-Universität in Pjöngjang absolviert. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Autorin veröffentlicht Sputnik ihr Tagebuch ohne jeglichen touristischen Glanz über das Leben in dem abgeschlossenen Land.

Au milieu de scènes de chaos et de conflits sans précédent, Malcolm Turnbull a été évincé aujourd’hui comme Premier ministre australien après une campagne politique contre lui organisée par la faction la plus à droite du Parti libéral au pouvoir. Les événements extraordinaires de la semaine dernière mettent en évidence l’instabilité et la fragilité croissantes qui animent l’ordre parlementaire.

US-Philippine relations have taken yet another turn for the worse, after US negotiators led by Defense Secretary James Mattis resulted in total failure. Mattis appears to have derailed negotiations by insulting the island nation’s duly elected president, Duterte.

China says the recent "irresponsible" comments made by President Donald Trump of the United States about Beijing`s commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula contradict "basic facts."

La Haute Cour de Séoul a durci la peine de Mme Park d`un an après sa condamnation à 24 ans d`emprisonnement en première instance. Mme Park a également été condamnée à une amende de 20 milliards de wons (18 millions de dollars), supérieure à sa première sentence, une amende de 18 milliards de wons (16 millions de dollars).

If Micronesia’s centrally positioned Chuuk State votes for independence next year, then it could set off a chain reaction of events that would seriously undermine the US’ Pacific strategy and work out to the supreme benefit of China. What’s Chuuk?

It seems everyday I wake up and see another instance of defections coming from US allies over the behavior of some corner of the Trump Administration. Over the weekend Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte hit back strongly at US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs Randall Schriver who told Duterte to “think very carefully” about acquiring a Russian submarine...

One day after Australia slumped into a leadership crisis, when prime minister Malcolm Turnbull found that his support has collapsed, moments ago Liberal party lawmakers voted to oust Malcolm Turnbull, deepening political instability that’s seen six changes of prime minister in little more than a decade, Sky News reported. Turnbull will be replaced with Treasurer Scott Morrison, a far more market-friendly alternative than the more right-wing Peter Dutton, who had been cited as Turnbull`s most likely replacement.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for more efforts to boost growth momentum and improve people`s livelihood in the country`s less-prosperous western regions.

Philippine leader has fueled speculation about his ill-health by falling from public view and suggesting he may resign less than half-way into his term

In 2013, there were 4,000-registered firms, employing more than 4.3 million personnel. By 2017, the figure had jumped to 5,000 with staff numbers hovering around the five-million mark. Many of these operatives are former People’s Liberation Army veterans, who have been recruited by security companies closely linked to ‘New Silk Road’ projects.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Beijing on Monday.

Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, slammed Washington for telling his country what weapons to buy, but appeased the Americans by saying that the submarines it may purchase from Russia won’t be used against them.

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has voiced anger at Beijing’s “increasingly-out-of-control” behavior following El Salvador’s move to sever ties with her self-proclaimed government in favor of China.

China released a guideline Sunday on winning the battle against poverty in the next three years to prepare the nation for eradicating poverty by 2020.

The creeping revival of last year’s Donglang/Doklam Drama proves that China did in fact make a dummy out of India at the time, but that India had in turn made a dummy out of the rest of the world by keeping up the charade that it got China to back down, the narrative of which the US is finally exposing as it “goes for the kill” and prepares to win its Hybrid War on the Indian-Chinese Partnership.

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un will welcome South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang, North Korea, in September, it was announced Monday. But the choice of venue – the third time North Korea’s capital has been the site of an inter-Korean summit, unlike Seoul, which has never hosted a North Korean leader – has raised some eyebrows.

With more counties being lifted out of poverty, China has made concrete steps toward delivering the country`s goal of completely eliminating poverty by 2020.

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to president of the ruling Cambodian People`s Party Samdech Techo Hun Sen for his party`s victory in the recent general elections.

For Li Zhiping, a bus driver commuting between Guangdong and Hong Kong, the Humen Bridge is his most frequent route. But not for long. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, about to open soon, will cut the travel time between the two areas from three hours to 30 minutes.

Reform and opening up have broken new ground for China and should be advanced with resolution and courage, according to a commentary published on state media Monday.

Nordkorea und Südkorea haben am Montag einen Gipfel für den September vereinbart, wie die Nachrichtenagentur Yonhap meldet.

If realized, shuttle trains would run through a 135km undersea section of the tunnel at up to 250kph by 2030 from China to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province rather than an independent state.

A combination of colonial and post-colonial paternalism by Western industrialized countries, a rediscovery of a glorious past, and the collapse of American unipolar dominance is leading the Polynesian region of the Pacific to a future political and economic union. The Polynesian Leaders Group (PLG) is making itself felt politically and diplomatically in the Asia-Pacific region.

In 2014 Mongolia initiated an international conference in Ulaanbaatar, to discuss security problems in North-East Asia, particularly on the Korean peninsula. The significance of this initiative was all the greater, since at that time almost all the channels for discussion of problems and negotiations between the two Koreas had been closed, and the six-party talks on Korean issues had been discontinued.

China`s goods trade went up 8.6 percent year on year to 16.72 trillion yuan (about 2.45 trillion U.S. dollars) in the January-July period of this year, customs data showed Wednesday.

The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Tuesday the country`s service trade rose 8.5 percent year on year to stand at 2.53 trillion yuan (nearly 370 billion U.S. dollars) in H1.

The Trump administration has made the Chinese industrial transformation strategy, “Made in China: 2025,” or simply China 2025 the explicit target of its current trade war offensive against the Peoples’ Republic. Western industrial leading countries, including Germany, are understandably alarmed. Only they are ten years late, and until now have foolishly refused to collaborate with China in key developments, including of the new economic Silk Road or Belt Road Initiative. Here I want to briefly indicate what China is doing.

About 40 years after China set sail on its voyage of reform and opening-up, the journey is still at full speed and heading towards ever greater goals.

China`s new countermeasures to impose additional tariffs on about 60 billion U.S. dollars worth of products from the United States are "rational and restrained," a spokesperson with the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Friday.

New Zealand Unite Union leader Mike Treen has returned to New Zealand, after he was reportedly tasered and beaten by Israeli military during a violent attack aboard an international campaigning ship.

A key meeting has signaled that China will put more focus on maintaining the stability of the economy in the second half of this year amid external uncertainties.

Si les Marines des Etats-Unis d’Amérique sont envoyés pour garder l’ambassade de facto à Taiwan, l’American Institute à Taiwan (AIT), ils pourraient être traités par Pékin comme une « subversion sévère » et même « une invasion de l’armée des Etats-Unis d’Amérique sur le sol chinois », a mis en garde un éditorial du dimanche dans les médias d’État chinois.

Premier Li Keqiang has stressed sustainable development and the improvement of people`s livelihood while visiting southwest China`s Tibet Autonomous Region.

65 years after the 1953 armistice that stopped the open fighting of the Korean War, the nations involved still haven’t replaced it with a permanent peace treaty. This means that the Korean War is still technically ongoing, 68 years later. That’s apparently where the US intends for it to stay.

Chinese national political advisors convened a bi-weekly seminar on Friday to advise on the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

A close and disturbing look at the life of night shift factory workers

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday met with Tadamori Oshima, speaker of the House of Representatives of the Japanese parliament, calling for a healthy and stable bilateral relationship.

La méfiance de Pyongyang serait due aux fausses promesses de Trump. Ce dernier pense, à tort ou à raison, que des jeux « gagnant-gagnant » ou « perdant-perdant » peuvent garantir les intérêts des États-Unis. Après le sommet de Singapour, le secrétaire d’État américain Mike Pompeo avait estimé que la Corée du Nord était toujours une menace et que les sanctions contre cette dernière devaient être renouvelées encore un an. Pyongyang s’en était bien douté et avait transmis un message à Trump disant qu’« il ne ferait pas de concession sans en obtenir ».

Berichte besagen, dass die gegenwärtige US-Regierung mehr Unterstützung für Taiwans Regierung signalisiert hat. Ein taiwanesischer Wissenschaftler meinte am Sonntag hingegen, dass die Republik China in ihrer Verteidigung nicht mehr auf Washington zählen könne.

The Ministry of Veteran Affairs and the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission have issued a joint circular to promote military-civilian relations across the country.

On July 7, The New York Times reported that North Korea accused the US of a “gangster-like demand for denuclearization”, even as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called talks productive. One should not be at all surprised at this statement. The hand writing, and now the hand wringing, were clearly on the wall. When two leaders meet with wildly opposing agendas, the outcome can only be, as Rudyard Kipling famously said, “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”

China Thursday refuted the remarks made by a senior U.S. official who blamed China for the bilateral trade dispute, saying his words distorted the facts.

China will work to tackle the weak areas in its business environment to further improve overall competitiveness and sustain the sound momentum of steady economic performance, the State Council`s executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Wednesday.

La peur des États-Unis a rapproché les deux Corée.

The People’s Republic of China, which for a long time now has had to tackle the sect of Falun Gong], is horrified to discover the resurgence of the “Return to Jerusalem Movement”.

.. . it appears that President Trump just received a very heartfelt note from Kim Jong Un, promising a very, very bright future. Here’s the letter’s text in full:

Entre l’Armée Indépendante Kachin (KIA) et l’armée birmane, le cessez-le-feu avaient duré dix-sept ans dans l’État Kachin, au nord-est de la Birmanie. Il fut rompu le 9 juin 2011. Depuis, la situation est de plus en plus préoccupante. Quant aux espoirs placés dans le gouvernement d’Aung San Suu Kyi pour rétablir la paix, ils se sont évanouis.

Die Volksrepublik China, die lange mit der Falun Gong-Sekte konfrontiert war, entdeckt mit Entsetzen das Wiederaufleben der „Zurück zu Jerusalem“ Bewegung. Diese evangelischen Sekte war in den 1920er Jahren in der Provinz Shandong (im Nordosten Chinas) mächtig, eine Region mit einer synkretistischen religiösen Tradition. Sie verschwand mit der nationalistischen Revolution und taucht heute wieder auf, vor allem in der chinesischen Diaspora in Afrika.

The remarks made by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday have charted the course for relations across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan affairs official Liu Jieyi said Saturday.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, told the central and state organs to take the lead in safeguarding the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee.

Proposed Philippine constitution would replace central with federal rule, but would also potentially allow Duterte to dodge current legal term limits

Le Partenariat économique régional global (PERG, RCEP) est en train de devenir le plus grand bloc économique du monde en termes de population. Les politiques protectionnistes de l’administration Trump ont incité les pays d’Asie-Pacifique à s’associer et à former un front uni.

The Shanghai municipal government Tuesday introduced a total of 100 new measures covering five areas in a bid to further expand the city`s opening-up.

With a China-US trade war now under way, China`s natural impulse was to lash out against Trump, not only in the state-controlled media, but also in statements by top ranking officials, such as an angry diatribe by the Sinochem chairman, who quoted Michelle Obama, saying "when they go low, we go high."

La Chine a bien mené sa propre et véritable révolution militaire asymétrique et alternative.La Chine poursuit une politique pacifique basée sur le développement économique mais sa montée en puissance mondiale la désigne de facto comme une cible à détruire.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has just concluded another round of high level talks with DPRK officials in Pyongyang.

The Democratic People`s Republic of Korea (DPRK) lashed out at the U.S. "gangster-like" attitude when demanding denuclearization at the high-level talks between the two countries on Friday and Saturday, saying it was "no doubt regrettable."

Laut dem US-Außenminister Mike Pompeo hat Präsident Donald Trump Nordkorea „eine lichtvolle Zukunft“ versprochen und eine dafür notwendige Bedingung genannt.

Entering his third year in office, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte faces a rising uproar over his increasingly contested foreign policy, with different political factions pulling the country in opposed geopolitical directions. Duterte has gradually abandoned the country’s policy of equilateral balancing vis-à-vis great powers, namely by refusing to overtly side with America or China, in favor of a strategic leaning towards Beijing.

The BBC has mounted a recent propaganda campaign aimed at once again placing pressure on Myanmar`s military, within a wider effort to drive a wedge between Myanmar and China.

There is “a considerable chance” that the Chinese Navy will have seven aircraft carriers instead of four by 2025 because of defense program being developed,” according to an article in The Diplomat magazine.

Die Bundesregierung bemüht sich um den Ausbau der Beziehungen zu der strategisch rasch an Bedeutung gewinnenden Inselregion des Südwestpazifik. Hintergrund ist die zunehmende Rivalität zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und China, in der Washington die Region als "Tor in den Indo-Pazifik" begreift. Aktuell beteiligt sich die Bundeswehr an einem US-geführten Manöver im Pazifik.

Dès l’annonce du sommet de Singapour, nous observions qu’une partie des médias occidentaux, relayant des positions anti-Donald Trump et anti-Corée du Nord, ferait tout pour torpiller le fragile processus de discussion venant de s’établir entre Washington et Pyongyang.

The US military has formally ended a 70-year presence in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Friday, with the opening of a new military headquarters further south in the city of Pyeongtaek. The US has had forces in Seoul since shortly after World War 2. The new base is farther south, and therefore out of the range of North Korean artillery.

La collecte de renseignement humain (Humint) en provenance de la Corée du Nord est quasiment impossible. Pour des raisons assez faciles à deviner, les « révélations » de dissidents ou autres déserteurs n’ont jamais été fiables. Reste le renseignement électronique (Elint) et selon les dernières données collectées, il semblerait que la Corée du Nord est en train d’accélerer ce que l’on pourrait assimiler à une révolution des affaires militaires suivant ses propres moyens.

The US-led RIMPAC 2018, the world`s largest naval maneuver, began yesterday with German soldiers participating. According to the US Navy, the naval exercise will also include operations in the Western Pacific. The region of the Southwest Pacific islands will thus come into focus, which - even though largely ignored by the European public - has been gaining significant global influence. On the one hand, the influence of Western countries has shrunk recently, while that of their strategic rivals, such as Russia and China, has significantly grown.