Sources: AP
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei pays an official visit to Taiwan to reaffirm support for Taiwan as one of the 13 countries which recognize Taiwan in the One-China policy dispute. China condemns Giammattei's visit. 2023-04-25
Sixteen people are killed and 36 others are reported missing after heavy rain causes flooding in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai, China. 2022-08-18
China launches the Shenzhou 12 spacecraft carrying three astronauts on the first flight to the Tianhe core module. 2021-06-17
Cambodia receives its first 600,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. 2021-02-7
An explosion at a chemical plant in Sichuan, China, kills 19 people and injures 12 others. 2018-07-13
Chinese political activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is released from prison on medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. 2017-06-26
The United States announces a deal to sell $1.83 billion worth of arms to Taiwan, which includes two decommissioned U.S. Navy frigates, Assault Amphibious Vehicles, and surface-to-air missiles. China has also expressed its disapproval over the deal, claiming it would affect their internal affairs. 2015-12-16
The Stethem visits Shanghai, signaling that relations between the two countries continue despite tensions over the recent Lassen 6 cruise near artificial islands constructed by China. The navies of the two nations plan combined maritime exercise as well. 2015-11-16
In a Peking University speech in Beijing, US Pacific Command commander, Admiral Harry Harris, says the U.S. Navy’s freedom-of-navigation patrols in the South China Sea are routine operations intended to demonstrate respect for international law principles. Harris reiterated they should not be construed as a threat to any country while emphasizing America's common ground with China. 2015-11-3
China delimits an "air-defence identification zone" over an area of the East China Sea, covering Diaoyu-Senkaku Islands, also claimed by Japan. 2013-11-23