Author: Christopher Bodeen
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China raises defense budget by 7.2% as it pushes for global heft and regional tensions continue
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China is increasing its defense budget by 7.2% this year, similar to last year’s rise
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The Lunar New Year of the Dragon flames colorful festivities across Asian nations and communities
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With fireworks, feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash for the kids, numerous Asian nations and overseas communities have welcomed the arrival of the Lunar New Year
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Man explodes device outside US Embassy in Beijing
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BEIJING — A man exploded a small homemade bomb outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday, injuring only himself, according to police and an embassy spokesperson. Photos on social media showed a large amount of smoke and police vehicles surrounding the embassy shortly after…
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US-North Korea open talks in New York aimed at salvaging summit
NEW YORK — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korea’s former military intelligence chief opened talks Thursday to try to salvage an on-again, off-again summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump told reporters the talks were going well, and that North Korean officials may come to Washington on…
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Top North Korean official, Pompeo meet to discuss summit
NEW YORK — A senior North Korean official and the top U.S. diplomat had dinner in New York on Wednesday as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un try to salvage prospects for a high-stakes nuclear summit. It’s the highest-level official North Korean visit to the United States in 18 years. Kim Yong Chol, the…
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N. Korea’s Kim meets China’s president ahead of Trump summit
BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a northern Chinese port city and pledged his continuing commitment to denuclearization ahead of his expected summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, state media said Tuesday. The meeting Monday and Tuesday in Dalian is the second between Xi and Kim…
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US: War would be ‘horrific’ but NKorea nukes ‘unimaginable’
BEIJING — A military solution to the North Korean missile threat would be “horrific” but allowing Pyongyang to develop the capability to launch a nuclear attack on the United States is “unimaginable,” the top U.S. military officer said Thursday in Beijing. The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford,…
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Political prisoner, Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at age 61
SHENYANG, China — Imprisoned for all the seven years since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo never renounced the pursuit of human rights in China, insisting on living a life of “honesty, responsibility and dignity.” China’s most prominent political prisoner died Thursday of liver cancer at 61. His death — at a…
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China says it will give drone back, but Trump says ‘keep it’
BEIJING — China says its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea, but that it will give it back. President-elect Donald Trump, however, says the Chinese government should be told “we don’t want the drone they stole back” and “let them keep it!” This comes after U.S. officials confirmed…
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China issues warning over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan
BEIJING — Contacts with China’s military would likely be the first to suffer if Beijing moves to retaliate over upcoming U.S. arms sales to Taiwan — the latest in a flurry of disputes elevating tensions between Washington and Beijing. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu warned Tuesday that the Obama administration risked damaging bilateral ties with…