A major summit between the United States and the Gulf nations wrapped up Thursday with pledges of increased security cooperation, but fell short of producing a formal defense treaty sought by Gulf nations amid their concerns over a rising Iran and a possible nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
The Philippines' invitation to journalists to visit a Chinese island in the South China Sea and efforts to seek U.S. help are a sheer provocation, and the United States should not back it in any form.
Radical Islamist group Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a gun attack in the U.S. state of Texas, which indicates the group has breached the walls of U.S. security by using social media to galvanize its sympathizers to launch terror attacks.
Chinese investment in the United States has been rising rapidly in recent years and it will remain bullish in the future despite some friction, Vinai Thummalapally, executive director of the SelectUSA, told Xinhua in an interview.
The United States has made a mistake in resisting joining the China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), said a leading U.S. expert.
The euro zone's biggest economies -- Italy, France and Germany -- have Britain in dismissing U.S. concerns and will become founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Malacanang, the Philippine presidential palace, said Tuesday it does not see anything wrong if the United States assisted Philippine authorities in the operation against two suspected terrorists in the southern province of Maguindanao on Jan. 25.
Marathon talks in Minsk have finally rekindled hope for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as four participating parties are involved in intense diplomacy to end the nearly one-year-old Ukraine crisis.
Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke on Saturday expressed confidence in the future of U.S.-China relations, noting that bilateral cooperation is "stronger than ever before."
The ice-breaking dialogue between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Singapore Sunday offers some ray of hope for the settlement of the decades-long predicament, but turning the positive momentum into milestone requires both courage and wisdom to compromise from the two sides.
Whatever else 2014 will be known for, it was not an easy one for Uncle Sam who wrapped up the year with nationwide protests ignited by racial tensions.
Internet and 3G mobile network of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) were paralyzed again Saturday evening amid bickering between the United States and the Asian country over an earlier cyber attack on Sony Pictures.
There are probably few other countries in the world as self-righteous and complacent as the United States when it comes to human rights issues, but the Ferguson tragedy is apparently a slap in the face.
The United States has no intention of containing China because doing that is not in the interests of the U.S., visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said here Tuesday night.
The two-way trade between Vietnam and the United States is estimated to reach 34.9 billion U. S. dollars in 2014, of which Vietnam's exports to the United States would earn 29.4 billion dollars, according to the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) in Vietnam.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Barack Obama's national security advisor, Susan Rice, here Tuesday and called for more strategic trust between the two countries.
The United States had recently attempted to rescue a number of American hostages, including slain journalist James Foley, held in Syria by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but the mission failed, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby on Wednesday said.
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