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The Belt and Road cooperation project between China and 16 Central and East European countries, including Serbia, "is among the most significant in the world."

Serbian's First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said this for the Xinhua news agency.

North Korea has confirmed it has conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date, marking the 68th anniversary of its founding with a reminder to the world that it may be edging closer to developing a warhead capable of striking the US mainland. The news of the test was confirmed in a state television news bulletin, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua.

China has legalised overseas counter-terror operations by its military, details of a controversial new law showed, as it tries to tie violence linked to mainly Muslim Xinjiang into global concerns about extremism.

A landslide that swept through an industrial park in southern China has buried more than 30 buildings in a sea of mud, leaving 91 people missing and triggering a gas explosion, Chinese media said Dec. 21.

A landslide at an industrial park in southern China buried more than 20 buildings and left 22 people missing on Dec. 20, state media reported, as more than 1,500 emergency workers searched the scene.

Rescuers pulled four people from the debris after the accident in the southern city of Shenzhen bordering Hong Kong, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

China's navy chief warned his US counterpart encounters between their forces could spiral into conflict, state media reported, two days after a US destroyer sailed close to Beijing's artificial South China Sea islands.
 

China announced the end of its controversial one-child policy on Thursday. Its strict and brutal enforcement left the country with an ageing population and shrinking workforce.

All couples now will be allowed to have two children, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a communique issued by the ruling Communist Party.

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Oct. 29, with the official Xinhua news agency saying that all couples would be allowed two children.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that Serbia is preparing projects for the upcoming summit of China and 16 countries of central and eastern Europe.

Not even 10 percent of the USD 10 billion that the Chinese government had set aside for cooperation with southeastern European countries had been employed for projects, he told China's Xinhua agency in an interview.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for talks in Beijing on July 29, in a visit expected to cover trade ties, missile defense program bargaining and spat over the Asian giant?s Uighur minority.