The three-day (September 4-6) summit marks the ninth editon of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and is being held amidst ongoing conflicts in Africa in its neighbouring West Asia, Ukraine, and China's growing assertiveness in the Pacific region.
Amid growing tension in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller condemned China's aggressive actions. In a post on X, Miller stated, "The United States stands with our Philippine allies and condemns the dangerous and escalatory a
aiwan's Ministry of National Defence detected 10 PLA aircraft, 7 Chinese Navy vessels and 2 official ships operating around the nation, up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) on Sunday, reported Taiwan News.
The meeting was part of ongoing efforts to maintain channels of communication and responsibly manage the relationship between the United States and China, the White House said. Chinese state media reported that Xi told Sullivan that Beijing's commitment to good ties with Washington remained
The call, likely to be held prior to the US presidential elections this November, was discussed between Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi during their two-day meeting in Yanqi Lake, Beijing on August 27-28.
The Taiwan MoFA said a Chinese Shaanxi Y-9 reconnaissance plane entered into Japanese airspace east of the Danjo Islands on Monday and added that Beijing's action "seriously violated Japan's sovereignty and raised regional tensions."
Chinese companies dominate the globe's maritime supply chain and is home to seven of the world's ten busiest ports. With capacity doubling over the past decade, China now controls the world's largest shipping fleet by gross tonnage, plus it produces more than 95% of shipping containers. W
The CBS report states that Yuanjun Tang, who had previously protested against the Chinese Communist Party during the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and later sought refuge in Taiwan and the US, is accused by prosecutors of agreeing to work for China's intelligence agency decades later.
Six of the aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southeastern and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)
The Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) held a tabletop exercise in Taipei, earlier this month focusing on Beijing's use of economic and cybercoercion against Taiwan.