Hua Chunying

China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May would visit China from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 Reuters reported.

Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying confirmed the visit during a regular news briefing in Beijing. 

Indian and Chinese soldiers yelled and hurled stones at one another in the high Himalayas in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Indian officials said Aug. 16 after the altercation that escalates tensions between two nations already engaged in a lengthy border standoff elsewhere.

China yesterday sidestepped claims by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that it had threatened to go to war over the disputed South China Sea.

Duterte, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing last week, said May 19 that the leaders had raised conflict as an option to resolving their competing claims to the waters.  

BELGRADE - China has warned the United States it would not retreat from claims that it controls the South China Sea. VOA reports.

As the world celebrates New Year, China expresses hope that its ties with India will get a big boost in 2017.

China on Dec. 19 rejected U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's claim that it had "stolen" an American research drone, as state media said his diplomatic inexperience could spark a confrontation between the two nations.

Beijing's seizure of the marine probe in international waters in the South China Sea raised already heightened tensions between the world's two largest military powers.

The international community on Wednesday condemned North Korea’s statement that it carried out successfully hydrogen bomb test.

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting later due to the reported test.

The leader of the main exile Syrian opposition group will visit China this week, Beijing said Jan. 4, despite the country repeatedly blocking UN Security Council resolutions on the conflict.

The Philippines argued at a closed hearing on July 7 that an international court should intervene in its dispute with China over the right to exploit natural resources and fish in the South China Sea. 

China has no "ethnic problem" in its far west, and Muslim Uighur minorities there enjoy freedom of religion, the Foreign Ministry said on July 6, following anti-China protests in Turkey over Beijing's treatment of the group.