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The Philippine Coast Guard removes a series of buoys installed by China in the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea under orders of President Bongbong Marcos.
2023-09-25

Diplomats from the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran gather in Vienna, Austria to seek a deal to revive the 2015 Iran deal.
2022-02-28

Thirteen people are killed and 45 others are injured when a long-distance bus rolls over on the G22 Qingdao–Lanzhou Expressway in Gansu, China. This is the second major disaster in the province this year after the Gansu ultramarathon disaster.
2021-07-26

Canada's largest airline Air Canada suspends all flights to China until April in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-02-25

China expels three journalists of "The Wall Street Journal" over an opinion piece called "China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia" that was deemed racist. The government demanded the newspaper apologize, which it declined. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang says the journalists have five days to leave the country and says the article "denigrated" China's efforts to combat the virus.
2020-02-19

North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un meets with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, on what is his first known travel outside North Korea since assuming office in 2011.
2018-03-27

Vietnam seizes a Chinese fishing vessel for intruding in its waters and tows the vessel to the port of Hai Phong.
2016-04-4

The United States and China agree to co-ordinate their responses if a proposed North Korean rocket launch commences.
2012-03-26

A bus falls off a cliff in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern China resulting in the death of 23 people.
2010-07-18

China surpassed the United States last year as the country with the most clean energy investment. China's clean energy investments were $34.6 billion, compared with U.S.A.'s $18.6 billion last year. The US still leads the world in installed renewable energy, with 52.2 gigawatts of wind energy, small hydroelectric, biomass and waste generating capacity, per a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts, but has dropped below ten other countries, including Canada and Mexico in investments as a share of the national economy.
2010-03-26