BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan has decided to deport Chinese activists who landed on a disputed isle at the heart of a territorial row, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday, a move that could ease tension between Asia’s two biggest economies. The feud over the islands in the East China Sea has frayed relations between...
BEIJING — China’s premier says the country should meet this year’s economic targets but is warning hardship could continue for some time and trade conditions will be grim. During a visit Wednesday to eastern China, Premier Wen Jiabao cited a small improvement in industrial output and said employment is stable, the official Xinhua News...
BEIJING (Reuters) – China‘s foreign minister on Thursday repeated Beijing‘s call for the Syrian government to talk with the opposition and take steps to meet the people’s demand for change, but stopped short of offering any new solutions to the ongoing crisis. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told envoy Bouthaina Shaaban, an advisor to President...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – In China‘s booming smartphone market, which is set this year to overtake the United States as the world’s largest, a host of little-known local firms are primed with cheap phones to squeeze market share from U.S. giant Apple Inc’s iPhone. In the latest local challenge to the iPhone, Xiaomi Technology on...
Xinhua | By Agencies The Japanese government on Friday decided to release the 14 Chinese illegally detained Wednesday by Japanese authorities at the Diaoyu Islands after the Chinese government repeatedly demanded their “immediate and unconditional” release. The 14 Chinese, despite obstruction by Japan Coast Guard patrol ships, arrived at the Diaoyu Islands by a...
Masataka Morita/Yomiuri Shimbun, via The Associated Press. Chinese activists who planted flags on a disputed island had their boat commandeered by Japanese coast guard vessels on Wednesday. Japan arrested 14 of them. HONG KONG — It’s not easy keeping track of all the territorial disputes over rocky outcrops, barren mini-islands and submerged chunks of...
Tokyo and Beijing are exchanging tough words over the arrest of 14 Hong Kong protesters and journalists who landed Wednesday on the disputed Senkaku Islands, repeating their harsh rhetoric over who owns the rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea. But diplomatic experts in Japan agree that deep down, both Japan and China are...
