President Hu Jintao will visit Japan from May 6 to 10, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. According to state media, it will be the first visit to Japan by a Chinese president in a decade. Hu is expected to meet with Japan’s Emperor Akihito and hold talks with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. The […]
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The West should stop harrassing China over human rights abuses in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, said Olympic committee chief Jacques Rogge, the Financial Times reported. Rogge called harsh criticism of China a "big mistake" for those who wish to see progress in China, pointing out that Western countries only gradually evolved a concept […]
China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that a ship carrying arms bound for Zimbabwe had been recalled by the Chinese company behind the sale, Reuters reported. Speaking at a news conference, ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the recall was made because the ship was unable to unload its goods at port in South Africa. Port […]
President Hu Jintao said French cooperation was necessary to restore Sino-French relations following the Olympic torch protests in Paris and subsequent picketing of Carrefour stores in China by local demonstrators, AFP reported. In a meeting with Christian Poncelet, leader of the French Senate, Hu complained about the protests against China’s control of Tibet that overshadowed […]
The US State Department has asked China to withdraw an arms shipment to Zimbabwe and halt further such shipments to the African country, AFP reported. A Chinese ship, the An Yue Jiang, has had to abandon plans to offload arms in the South African port of Durban, following a court case that barred it from […]