South Korea has voiced concern about a Chinese steel structure in a disputed sea area. The South Korean Foreign Ministry announced this following a dialogue meeting with China. Meanwhile, both countries want to continue their maritime cooperation.The facility is located in a part of the Yellow Sea, which is known as the West Sea in […]
US President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for the sale of TikTok in the USA by another 75 days. Trump explained on Friday that “tremendous progress” had been made in the negotiations on the short video service. However, he said more time was needed and that he was looking forward to reaching an agreement […]
China faces an obesity crisis: 65 percent of the population is predicted to be overweight by 2030. According to a study published last month in The Lancet, the number of overweight or obese adults in China has already surpassed the 400 million mark in 2021 (in India, the figure was 180 million, and 172 million […]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) has drastically slashed its radio broadcasts. Due to US funding cuts, transmissions from relay stations owned or leased by the US government have been discontinued. The shortwave broadcasts of its programs in Mandarin, Tibetan and Lao have been completely discontinued, RFA informed its listeners. The US Congress-funded broadcaster also stated that […]
China, Japan and South Korea have agreed “to cooperate closely for comprehensive and high-level talks on a free trade agreement to promote regional and global trade.” For the first time in five years, the trade ministers of the three countries held an economic dialog to promote regional trade.The background to the meeting was US President […]
No, this is not an excursion by the volunteer fire department to the Great Wall. The fire department’s exercise on the wall took place yesterday near the section of the Wall near the city of Chengde, presumably to avoid the tourists on Sunday. It is unclear whether the fire brigade is familiar with the term […]
China will aim to develop 90 million hectares (200 million acres) of high-standard farmland by 2030, according to plans released by the government on Sunday. To achieve the latest efforts to ensure food security, all “eligible permanent basic farmland” will be converted into high-quality farmland by 2035. In order to ensure grain production in the […]
