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China's first home-grown aircraft carrier finishes maiden sea trial amid speculation Asia's most advanced destroyer will be next Footage of the vessel was released by state broadcaster China Central Television in a report that said: "Multiple types of equipment have been further tested and [the trial has] reached the anticipated goals." The voyage of the 65,000-tonne Type 001A also came amid rising speculations that the PLA's Type 055 destroyer, Asia's most advanced and biggest destroyer and the carrier's likely escort, will soon start sea tests.
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday rejected any plan by President Donald Trump to ease restrictions on China's ZTE Corp , calling the telecommunications firm a security threat and vowing not to abandon legislation clamping down on the company. A sign of ZTE Corp is pictured at its service centre in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China May 14, 2018.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on U.S. officials to pressure China to curb exports of fentanyl, a driver of the opioid drug scourge. Sen. Chuck Schumer is pushing the Trump administration to make stopping the flow of deadly fentanyl a top priority in upcoming trade talks with China.
The Trump administration made it clear Saturday that Beijing will not be allowed to export censorship and its own Communist Party brand of political correctness to the rest of the world. The Chinese government sent a threatening letter on April 25 to dozens of international airlines warning that they would face severe consequences if they failed to identify Taiwan as a part of China, according to The Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the letter .
A sawyer carries a cut of machine grade steel to be shipped throughout the Pacific Northwest at the Pacific Machinery & Tool Steel Company on March 6, 2018 in Portland, Oregon Business executives across the country are registering alarm about the Trump team's aggressive push on trade - even as the president's base largely embraces the moves. The Fed's latest beige book report released Wednesday - for which each of the nation's 12 regional banks survey business leaders, investors and economists in their areas - included 36 mentions of tariffs.
In this April 12, 2018 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Liaoning aircraft carrier is accompanied by navy frigates and submarines conducting an exercises in the South China Sea.
Information technology products, from cellphones to personal computers, have largely escaped the latest salvo of U.S.-China trade measures despite accounting for a significant portion of bilateral trade. LED lights are on display inside a booth at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, China October 16, 2017.
China's special representative on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, took the stage at the Green Carbon Summit on Monday to announce China had already met its emissions goals for 2020. What Zhenhua neglected to mention, however, is that China's global warming pledge was already in-line with what energy experts expected to happen regardless of climate policies.
Farmers, electronics retailers and other U.S. businesses are bracing for a backlash as President Donald Trump prep... The administration is expected Thursday to slap trade sanctions on China, perhaps including restrictions on Chinese investment and tariffs on as much as $60 billion worth of Chinese products. The administration is expected Thursday to slap trade sanctions on China, perhaps including restrictions on Chinese investment and tariffs on as much as $60 billion worth of Chinese products.
China's once powerful anti-corruption chief, Wang Qishan, appears poised to make a comeback, just a few months after many thought he was moving into retirement. Wang - who will be 70 years old this July - is widely expected to be elected as China's vice president on Saturday during a meeting of the country's top legislature.
In this Aug. 1, 2016 file photo, laborers work in the steel market in Yichang in central China's Hubei province. China says it "firmly opposes" U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff increase for imported steel and aluminum but gave no indication whether Beijing might impose its own measures in response.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with steel and aluminum executives in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, March 1, 2018, in Washington. Trump's announcement that he will impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum has upended political alliances on Capitol Hill.
In this Aug. 1, 2016 photo, laborers work in the steel market in Yichang in central China's Hubei province. China has expressed "grave concern" about a U.S. trade policy report that pledges to pressure Beijing but had no immediate response to President Donald Trump's plan to hike tariffs on steel and aluminum.
File photo of US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping make joint statements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Washington, The US Secret Service denied Monday reports that one of its agents and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly wrestled with Chinese security officials over the "nuclear football" during President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing in November.
Xinhua reports that China's State Administration of Grain said that China will expand production and consumption of bioethanol fuel this year as the country seeks more channels to use corn and grain stockpiles. Years of government support for corn farmers - paying Chinese corn producers more than twice the international price level until 2016 - have left China with a substantial stockpile.
President Donald J. Trump greets Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross as he arrives in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives to deliver the State of the Union address January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. HONG KONG - China is warning President Trump that it will take action if he puts heavy tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets members of the high-level delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which visited South Korea to attend the opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter Olympics in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency February 13, 2018. Source: KCNA/via Reuters WITH tensions in the Korean peninsula seemingly never-ending, the possibility of conflict erupting in East Asia is keeping everyone on edge.
Recently, a term "sharp power" has become "popular" following a U.S. think tank report and a cover story of the British magazine Economist in December 2017, both of which raised so-called "concerns" over the growing influence of Russia and China. In January, Joseph Nye, the father of "soft power" from Harvard University, published two articles respectively on U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs and international media organization Project Syndicate, attributing "soft power" to the West and labeling China and Russia with "sharp power".
This past year is what the era of Big Climate Change looks like. We are only at the beginning of the massive changes we are making to our environment by farting 41 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere every year, but we can already see the shape of the future and it is alarming.