Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country will not give in to pressure from China to extradite Uyghurs who have Turkish citizenship, even if it has strained their relationship.
“Turkish-Chinese ties have suffered over Beijing being di…
Hu Peng doesn’t have much to celebrate this New Year. His 90-year-old father died of COVID-19 on New Year’s Eve in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin after suffering cardiopulmonary failure.
Hu spoke to Radio Free Asia about the harrowing scenes in …
Continue ReadingPresident Ferdinand Marcos Jr. left for his first state visit to Beijing on Tuesday to focus on strategic cooperation, amid calls by Filipino fishermen demanding a halt to Chinese harassment in the disputed South China Sea.
Marcos said he hoped to over…
The European Union has offered to provide Chinese authorities with free doses of COVID-19 vaccines, as Beijing struggles to cope with new outbreaks of the virus after relaxing President Xi Jinping’s notorious ‘zero-COVID’ policy, Reuters reported.
A s…
Continue ReadingAngered by a nationwide ban on fireworks in cities, crowds in the central Chinese province of Henan attacked and overturned a police vehicle late Tuesday, while social media posts showed residents in other cities setting off fireworks in defiance of th…
Continue ReadingThe Cambodian government on Tuesday acknowledged that deaths had occurred at a controversial detention center and it has concluded a preliminary investigation into the facility’s shortcomings, but there are no plans to shut it down as a prominent human…
Continue ReadingThe recent promotion of former U.S. Ambassador Qin Gang, one of China’s most prominent “Wolf Warrior” diplomats, suggests that the country’s aggressive approach to international affairs isn’t likely to fade as long as President Xi Jinping remains in po…
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