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China’s thick red media line on what journalists can write about communist ally North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends the test-fire of an anti-tank guided weapon. China is sensitive over what its journalist write about its communist ally. Photo: Reuters

China and US agree to ‘very tough’ UN sanctions on North Korea

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (pictured) and US National Security Adviser Susan Rice have agreed on “the importance of a strong and united international response” to Pyongyang’s provocations. Photo: AFP

Update | China may send anti-ship missiles to disputed South China Sea to beef up defence: analysts

An aerial view of the city of Sansha on Woody Island, which China calls Yongxing, in the disputed Paracel chain. Photo: AFP
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Update | Beijing calls reaction to missile deployment ‘hype’ in defending use of armaments in South China Sea disputed islands

Aerial view of construction at Mabini (Johnson) Reef by China, in the disputed Spratley Islands, in the south China Sea. China deployed two batteries of sophisticated surface-to-air missile launchers to a disputed island in the South China Sea yesterday. Photo: EPA
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Obama scores victory by hosting Asean in US but breakthroughs unlikely, analysts say

U.S. President Barack Obama makes opening remarks at the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California February 15, 2016. Obama will press leaders from Southeast Asia to boost trade and back a common stance on the South China Sea this summit that the White House hopes will solidify U.S. influence in the region.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Vietnam backs latest US challenge to Beijing’s sovereignty in South China Sea, say analysts

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Mexico’s envoy downplays rail link snub, says ties with China moving forward

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto (R) and China's President Xi Jinping make a toast during a dinner at the National Palace in Mexico City in this June 4, 2013 file photo. When the leaders of Mexico and China met this summer, there was much talk of the need to deepen trade between their nations. Down on the Pacific shores of Mexico, a drug gang was already making it a reality. The Knights Templar cartel was so successful at exporting iron ore to China that the Navy last month took over the port in a city that has become one of the gang's principal cash cows: Lazaro Cardenas in the western state of Michoacan. To match Feature MEXICO-DRUGS/PORT REUTERS/Tomas Bravo/Files (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS DRUGS SOCIETY BUSINESS)

Key questions over security and economic reform await Trong after being re-elected to top job in Vietnam’s ruling party

(160128) -- HANOI, Jan. 28, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Delegates vote to adopt a resolution of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, Jan. 28, 2016. 1,510 delegates representing over 4.5 million Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) members attended the congress. (Xinhua/VNA)

New | China’s high-speed railway project in Indonesia suspended over incomplete paperwork

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (2nd L) and the general manager of China Railway Corp. Sheng Guangzu (C) stand next to a model of a train while attending a ground breaking ceremony for the Jakarta-Bandung fast-train railway line in Walini, West Java province, Indonesia January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Garry Lotulung FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

Taiwanese president’s trip to South China Sea island unhelpful, US says

epa05110018 Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou addresses attendees about South China islands during the Scientific International Seminar on South China inside Howard Civil Service International House in Taipei, Taiwan, 19 January 2016. EPA/RITCHIE B. TONGO

Chinese oil rig’s return in South China Sea, off coast of Vietnam, touches nerve in Hanoi

FILE - In this May 7, 2012 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Haiyang Shiyou oil rig, the first deep-water drilling rig developed in China, is pictured at 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong in the South China Sea. Vietnam said on its Foreign Ministry's website late Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, China has moved an oil rig into disputed waters in the South China Sea in a move that could result in a repeat the 2014 stand-off between the communist neighbors. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jin Liangkuai, File) NO SALES

New | Russia seeking to bolster energy exports to China

A woman walks past a board listing foreign currency rates against the Russian ruble in Moscow, on January 11, 2016. Russia's battered ruble on January 11 fell to 76 against the dollar and over 83 against the euro for the first time since the currency slump of December 2014. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV

Is Xi Jinping the man to defuse tensions in the Middle East? Landmark visit to Iran and Saudi Arabia revealed

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Vietnam’s communist party meets to elect new leadership, while confronting momentous decisions on economic reform and foreign policy

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Vietnam’s ‘stormy’ leadership tussle bares nation’s conflict over liberalism and taking a hardline over South China Sea dispute, analysts say

(FILES) This file picture taken on May 20, 2010 shows Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (L) and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong (R) standing talking prior to the opening of the National Assembly's summer session in Hanoi. In the staid world of communist politics Nguyen Tan Dung -- who is likely to be named to another term as Vietnamese prime minister this week in January 2011 -- has brought ambition and media-savvy, observer say. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam

New | Chinese military aircraft likely to land at new airport in disputed area of South China Sea in coming months, says ex-PLA officer

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‘China doesn’t want to be seen as a paper tiger’: Beijing in a bind over N Korea’s nuke test

A protester cuts a defaced North Korean flag during an anti-North Korea rally in central Seoul, South Korea, January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

‘Stop making the situation worse’: North Korea’s H-bomb test draws condemnation from Beijing

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) guides the multiple-rocket launching drill of women's sub-units under KPA Unit 851, in this undated file photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) April 24, 2014. North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear device on the morning of January 6, 2016, marking a significant advance in the isolated state's strike capabilities and raising alarm bells in Japan and South Korea. REUTERS/KCNA/Files THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FROM THE FILES PACKAGE ‘NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TEST'SEARCH â
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Why Japan’s ‘comfort women’ apology is a coup for Washington and a blow for Beijing

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se shake hands after a joint press conference at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 28, 2015. The two countries agreed on a set of measures the same day to bring a "final and irreversible solution" to the issue of women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

As Japan and South Korea concluded a deal to “finally and irreversibly” resolve the wartime “comfort women” dispute, analysts said the intensifying geostrategic competition in the region has been given an unexpected stir: a gain for Washington but an irritant for Beijing.

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New | Taiwan faces tough choices balancing between mainland China and United States as presidential poll looms

Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen gives a speech before their central standing committee in Taipei, Taiwan, in this November 4, 2015 file photo. To match TAIWAN-CHINA/ REUTERS/Pichi Chuang/Files

Long live the king: As Thai monarch turns 88, an auspicious number in Chinese culture, uncertainty surrounds succession

Workers use ropes to remove a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and install a new one on a facade as people gather at the Siriraj hospital where the King has been staying for months on the eve of his 88th birthday in Bangkok on December 4, 2015. Thai King Bhumibol, the world's longest reigning monarch who is regarded as a demi-god by many Thais and considered a unifying force in a politically turbulent nation, will turn 88 on December 5, 2015. AFP PHOTO / Christophe ARCHAMBAULT

Myanmar faces dilemma to balance need for Chinese investment against voters’ desire for cleaner government

-- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2015 -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters as she leaves a ceremony to mark the 100th birthday of independence hero Aung San, in the remote central Myanmar town of Natmauk on February 13, 2015. Known affectionately as "Bogyoke", or General, Aung San is adored in Myanmar and credited with unshackling the country from colonial rule and embracing its ethnic minorities in a vision of unity that unraveled catastrophically in the military-dominated decades that followed his 1947 assassination. AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU

China offers economic perks to Malaysia as it tries to ease tensions over South China Sea

(151123) -- KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23, 2015 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) shakes hands with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak during their talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov. 23, 2015. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing) (dhf)

South China Sea fears linger despite Beijing’s loan and aid pledges at East Asia Summit

epa05036700 US President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang (2-R), as Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak (R) looks on, before posing for photograph at the 10th East Asia Summit during the 27th ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22 November 2015. Malaysia is hosting the 27th ASEAN Summit, a meeting between ASEAN member countries and its three dialogue partners China, Japan and Korea, as well as a meeting of the East Asia Summit (EAS) forum. EPA/FAZRY ISMAIL

Asean leaders raise concerns about South China Sea island-building as China tries to keep it off the table

Premier Li Keqiang, fifth from left, with Asean leaders. Photo: AFP

China ‘held back on right to seize’ occupied islands in South China Sea

Chinese Navy personnel stand watch the guided missile destroyer USS Stethem arrives at the Shanghai International Passenger Quay for a scheduled port visit in Shanghai, China, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. A U.S. Navy destroyer docked in Shanghai on Monday in a sign that contacts between the U.S. and Chinese militaries are continuing despite tensions over the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Paul Traynor)

Economy vs defence: America’s allies take a ‘dual track’ diplomatic approach as Chinese clout grows

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks with U.S. service members aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, in this handout photograph taken and released on November 5, 2015. REUTERS/Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz/Department of Defense/Handout FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

Revealed: Myanmar’s US$31 billion jade mining industry and its 'ties to country's elite'

Industry insider says almost all jade mining companies had a “hidden” Chinese investor, who would provide capital, funding and sometimes the necessary skills. Photo: AP
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China 'offers joint drills with Asean in South China Sea to check US plan to send warships near Spratly Islands

China's Harbin guided missile destroyer is shown during a joint naval exercise with long-term ally Russia in the East China Sea in May. Now China is welcoming similar moves with Asean nations in the South China Sea. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Beijing is willing to hold joint drills with Southeast Asian countries in the disputed South China Sea, the defence minister said on Friday in what analysts saw as a response to Washington's plan to sail its warships around the Spratly Islands, which China claims as territory.

China has nothing to fear from Trans-Pacific Partnership omission: Australian trade minister

Australian Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Robb speaks as the twelve Trans-Pacific Partnership member countries participate in the closing press conference in Atlanta. Photo: EPA
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