Chinese President Xi Jinping has been worried about the growing diversity of religion in the country. Xi is concerned that lawless elements might use religion as a means to spread extremist ideology.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri, who was named in the controversial Panama Papers, promised to declare all documents pertaining to his alleged involved in offshore holdings to prove his innocence.
China's President, Xi Jinping calls on to all the parties involved in the Korean Peninsula issue to start a dialogue. Xi also urges everyone not to make any remarks that would spark tension and impair the security of the countries involved.
India's anti-monopoly watchdog, the Competition Commission will look into the the Monsanto joint venture deal. Accussations of abusing its dominance and overpricing has came out.
Twenty prominent legal experts across the world wrote a joint letter for Chinese President Xi Jinping, urging him to release Chinese rights lawyers and advocates held in detention since July last year.
On Sunday, China has formally arrested four labor activists who have helped workers fight for their rights. China Labor Bulletin reported that the number of arrests has doubled since 2014.
In an effort to combat terrorist attacks, China is not holding back to pass its controversial anti-terrorism law. The US government, meanwhile, had shown disapproval citing that it poses future problems for human rights and ultimately, would only do more harm than good.
It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy. Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal.
The U.S. ambassador to China, Max Baucus, called on China on Thursday to recognize several detained rights lawyers as "partners, not enemies of the government" on International Human Rights Day, comments that are likely to anger Beijing.
The Japanese and Philippine leaders will agree this week on a deal paving the way for Tokyo to supply Manila with used military equipment, possibly including aircraft that could be deployed to patrol the disputed South China Sea, sources said.
Two U.S. B52 strategic bombers flew near artificial Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea this week and were contacted by Chinese ground controllers but continued their mission undeterred, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
China is not aware of any plan to discuss the disputed South China Sea at an Asia Pacific leaders' summit next week in Manila, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday, amid tensions between China and the Philippines over the waters.
Vietnam agreed to build a "truly trustworthy" relationship with China on Friday during a visit to Hanoi by its President Xi Jinping, but at the same time invited Beijing's old rival Japan for joint military exercises and a visit to a sought-after port.
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Thursday his upcoming meeting with President Xi Jinping was about further normalizing ties with China and had nothing to do with trying to revive his party's fortunes ahead of the island's elections in January.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks with his Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore on Saturday in the first such meeting of leaders from the two rivals since the Chinese civil war ended in 1949.
China's naval commander told his U.S. counterpart that a minor incident could spark war in the South China Sea if the United States did not stop its "provocative acts" in the disputed waterway, the Chinese navy said on Friday.
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed close to one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest.
The U.S. Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea on Tuesday, a U.S. defense official said, in a challenge to China's territorial claims in the area.
China, Japan and South Korea will hold a summit in South Korea when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits, China and South Korea said on Monday, the first such meeting since they were discontinued in 2012 amid tension dating back to World War Two.
U.S. plans to send warships or military aircraft within 12 nautical miles of China's artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, possibly within days, could open a tense new front in Sino-U.S. rivalry.
