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China says Panchen Lama leading 'normal life'
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
The Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India and enjoys a wide global following, in May 1995 identified Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the reincarnation of the Panchen ...
Russian military to combat coronavirus outbreak in Siberia
May 18, 2020 (UPI)
The order to involve Russia's military came from President Vladimir Putin, during a videoconference with 85 regional leaders, saying that decisions on lockdown ...
US tells China not to interfere with its journalists in Hong Kong
May 18, 2020 (AFP)
The two sides have expelled each other's reporters in tit-for-tat moves over recent months as they trade barbs over press freedom and the coronavirus pandemic, ...
EU diplomat chief attacks 'rival' China
May 16, 2020 (AFP)
Josep Borrell, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, said China did not share Europe's respect for human rights, cyber security or the law of the se...
Europe at odds as US, China fight over pandemic at UN
May 16, 2020 (AFP)
For two months, France has been trying to corral Washington and Beijing into a compromise on the resolution, which would urge a halt to fighting in countries li...
China asks US to 'meet halfway' after Trump threatens to cut ties
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
Relations between the world's two largest economies have deteriorated in recent weeks, with both sides trading barbs over the origins of the virus that has kill...
For Europe's strongmen, pandemic is opportunity and risk
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
From Turkey to Russia and other ex-Soviet states such as Belarus, the coronavirus has proved an unexpected test for systems already facing economic difficulties...
Trump threatens to cut China ties as virus toll tops 300,000
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
Despite fears of a second wave of infections, national and local governments around the world are easing lockdown orders as they try to get stalled economies mo...
Trump threatens China ties, says in no mood for Xi talks
May 14, 2020 (AFP)
Tensions have ratcheted up between Washington and Beijing as they trade barbs over the origin of the pandemic -- which first appeared in late 2019 in the Chines...
US presses China on Panchen Lama 25 years after disappearance
May 14, 2020 (AFP)
On May 14, 1995, the exiled Dalai Lama, a Nobel laureate with a wide global following, recognized six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the reincarnation of the ...
US army resumes Europe exercises after pandemic pause
May 13, 2020 (AFP)
US-Polish exercise Allied Spirit, originally planned for May, will see the mobilization of 6,000 soldiers from the two countries from June 5-19 at the Drawsko P...
US Navy gives a show of force in South China Sea
May 13, 2020 (UPI)
Independence-class Navy littoral combats ships patrolled the contested South China Sea this week, with the USS Montgomery and USNS Cesar Chavez arriving on May ...
Russia, China boycott UN Security Council meeting on Syria
May 12, 2020 (AFP)
"Russia and China have empty tiles" on the screen, a Security Council member told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. During a virtual press conference, Ru...
China says Japanese fishing boat near disputed islands was illegal
May 11, 2020 (AFP)
The flashpoint islands -- called Senkaku in Japan and known in China as the Diaoyus -- are a point of ongoing tension between Tokyo and Beijing. On Friday, two ...
China threatens countermeasures over US visa rule for Chinese journalists
May 11, 2020 (AFP)
Citing China's treatment of the reporters, the US Homeland Security Department issued new regulations on Friday limiting visas for Chinese journalists to a maxi...
Two Chinese vessels chase Japanese fishing boat near disputed islets
May 10, 2020 (AFP)
Japan lodged an official protest with China over the incident -- which took place on Friday -- via a call to the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo by Shigeki Takizaki, h...
India, China in high-altitude fistfight at disputed border
May 10, 2020 (AFP)
There have been long-running border tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, with a bitter war fought over India's northeastern-most state of Arunachal Pr...
US accuses China, Russia of coordinating on virus conspiracies
May 08, 2020 (AFP)
"Even before the COVID-19 crisis we assessed a certain level of coordination between Russia and the PRC in the realm of propaganda," said Lea Gabrielle, coordin...
China slams US after Trump virus 'attack' claim
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
Tension between the world's two biggest economies has reached fever pitch in recent days as they have exchanged barbed comments on each other's handling of the ...
EU defends agreeing to Chinese censorship
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
The opinion piece written jointly with the 27 EU national ambassadors appeared in the China Daily, but a sentence mentioning "the outbreak of the coronavirus in...
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