North Korea only needs to rely on relief from international sanctions if it can demonstrate that all nuclear weapons have been dismantled. That said the American minister Mike Pompeo (Foreign Affairs), who said that China, South Korea and Japan support that position.
The fact that Kim Jong-un flew with Air China to Singapore was the most telling fact before the start of the summit. The North Korean leader travels under the wings of Beijing to talks with US President Trump. A small but important triumph for the Chinese.
China is chasing increasingly American state secrets in an increasingly aggressive manner. While the tension between the two countries is rapidly rising due to trade disputes and bickering over the South China Sea and North Korea, Beijing appears to have bribed several high-ranking American spies over the past two years in order to obtain secret material, which makes relations even more come under pressure.
The former chief of the North Korean secret service and chief executive in the government party, Kim Yong-chol, boarded a plane to the United States on Wednesday in Beijing. He is going to talk in New York with the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
The Chinese authorities imposed a fine on a company that declared Taiwan as 'country of origin' on packaging material. The Japanese Muji has to pay 200,000 yuan (more than 26,000 euros).
An employee of the US consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has been diagnosed with minor brain damage after complaining about strange sound sensations. He may have been the victim of a noise attack.
South Korean journalists are not present this week at the closure of the North Korean nuclear test site. The authorities in North Korea did not give the green light to the arrival of reporters from the southern neighbor.
China has agreed on Saturday to import more goods from the US. The country, however, did not say anything about the exact amount, while the White House demanded that Chinese import at least $ 200 billion of American goods.
China has for the first time brought a rocket from a commercial company into orbit around the earth. The Beijing based company OneSpace Technology developed the Chongqing Liangjiang Star, reports Chinese state media.
With temperatures of over 30 degrees it is pretty hot in the east of China. This is also the case in a Beijing zoo, where a giant panda is given a refreshing shower for the visitors' eye.
Clothing company Gap has apologized for the sale of a T-shirt with an 'incorrect' map of China. On Chinese social media photos of the garment had appeared, on which the country would have been depicted without areas like Tibet and Taiwan.
The White House is considering taking measures against the deployment of military equipment by China on islands in the South China Sea. 'We are well aware of Chinese militarization in the South China Sea. We have expressed our concern about this directly against the Chinese. This can have consequences, in the short and long term ', says government spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
China has placed cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles on three disputed islands in the South China Sea without disclosure. The American broadcaster CNBC reported on the basis of sources from American intelligence services that missiles have been placed that can hit ships more than 500 kilometers away.
The city of the future must rise in China. In order to improve the quality of life in Beijing, a completely new metropolis is being built at 100 kilometers from the capital. Xiongan, in the long term three times the size of New York, must become the latest Chinese miracle.
North Korea, through leader Kim Jong-un, offered 'deep apologies' to China for the bus accident during which 36 people died, including 32 Chinese tourists. The bodies of the victims are transported to China on Thursday by train.
In a fire in a karaoke bar in the southern Chinese city of Qingyuan, at least eighteen people were killed and five were injured on Tuesday. According to Chinese media, the police assume arson and they would have a suspect in mind.
China opens its market with metal trade for foreign investors. The government announced this on Friday.
Four years after the death of his parents, a baby was born in China. The couple, who died in a car accident, had frozen several fertilized eggs in the hope of getting a baby via ivf. And that worked after a lot of hassle even though they unfortunately can not see the end result anymore.
China is slipping back into the escalating trade dispute with the United States now that the American government has come up with more import duties on Chinese products. China announced to introduce 25 percent rates for 106 US products including soybeans, airplanes, automobiles, and chemicals.
A very rare bowl from the Qing dynasty was hammered at an auction in Hong Kong at an estimated 25 million euros, reports auction house Sotheby \u0026 # x27; s.
China has announced import duties on 128 US import products such as pork and wine. The country reacts to the import duties for steel and aluminum introduced by the American President Donald Trump.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is looking forward to meeting with Donald Trump. The US president announced via Twitter that he heard from the Chinese president Xi Jingping.
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, paid an unofficial visit to China from Sunday to Wednesday. There the North Korean leader met with the Chinese president Xi Jinping. This is confirmed by the Chinese state press agency Xinhua and the North Korean news agency KCNA.
It looked like a secret mission from a James Bond film, but the mysterious arrival and departure of the visit from North Korea did not take place on the silver screen, but on the central station of Beijing. China launched an amazing smokescreen at the start of this week, because: did dictator Kim Jong-un sit or not in the train?
A train with a high North Korean delegation left the Chinese capital Beijing on Tuesday afternoon. According to various anonymous sources, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un himself would have visited the powerful neighboring country in preparation for the summit he may hold with US President Donald Trump.
The first future in yuan for crude oil, which put China on the market as an alternative to the image-determining Brent and WTI futures contracts on Monday, does not threaten it, but it mainly highlights the rapid opening up of the market for foreign companies. 'The timing is perfect,' says economist Hans van Cleef (ABN Amro), referring to the trade dispute between the US and China.
Is Kim Jong-un in China? That question is on the lips of many after Monday an unusual North Korean train arrived in Beijing. It looked exactly like the vehicle with which his father Kim Jong-il always traveled.
Beijing has again issued a smog alarm. It is the second time this month that the problems with the smog are so great in the Chinese capital that an alarm is being made.
A Chinese man killed his goldfish because he was not allowed to take them into the subway. At a subway station in Zhengzhou, the man was stopped by security because he carried two fish in a plastic bag of water. After a heated discussion, he decided to empty his water bag. The fish fell on the ground where they died.
The US President Donald Trump is expected to announce this week up to $ 60 billion in import duties on Chinese products. That's what insiders told the White House.
