US President Barack Obama has arrived in Vietnam for a three-day official visit commencing on May 23 at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang. This is the first visit to Vietnam by President B. Obama, contributing to further consolidating and developing the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold bilateral meetings on Wednesday evening (May 25) with US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of a summit meeting of the Group of Seven (G-7) nations, a Japanese Foreign Ministry source said.
A middle-aged Pashtun man used forged documents to cross from Iran into Pakistan. A few hours later, on a lonely stretch of highway, he was incinerated by a US drone.
Several city assemblies in the Okinawa Prefecture yesterday unanimously passed a resolution to protest the murder of a local woman to which a civilian United States base worker has allegedly confessed.
Major press agencies around the world on May 23 carried stories about US President Barack Obama’s announcement of fully lifting the embargo on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam on the occasion of his ongoing visit to the Southeast Asian country.
The future development of Sino-US ties is promising, but the United States should stay away from China’s internal affairs, a retired Chinese diplomat has warned.
The trip comes amid warming ties between the countries as the US seeks to build relations with Pacific allies.
Defence Minister Gen Nakatani lodged a protest with the commander of US forces in Okinawa on Saturday after the arrest of a civilian base worker over the death of a local woman stoked anger among islanders already feeling burdened with the heavy US military presence.
China urged the United States on Thursday to "immediately stop close-in reconnaissance actions" after confirming that a US Navy EP-3 spy plane had conducted close-in flights near China's Hainan Island on Tuesday.
US President Barack Obama heads to Asia tomorrow on a week-long visit which is likely to be notable more for its historical symbolism rather than any concrete outcomes.
On July 7, 2015 at the White House, Barack Obama met with Nguyen Phu Trong and pledged to make his first visit to Vietnam “sometime in the future (Nakamura, 2015).” It was the first time a general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) had visited the US, which was supposed to be a step of significant progress towards the reconciliation of the two former enemies.
The Obama administration lifted sanctions against 10 state-run Myanmar companies and banks Tuesday in response to the Southeast Asian nation's historic transition to democracy, but it retained restrictions on trade and investment with the still-powerful military.
In mid-March, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), part of the sister company to The Economist magazine, published its latest list of risks facing the global economy.
The latest Captain America film stayed atop the North American box office over the weekend, according to preliminary industry figures on Sunday (May 15).
Defense Ministry Spokesman Yang Yujun on Saturday expressed "strong dissatisfaction" and "firm opposition" to a Pentagon report that he said has misrepresented China's military development.
On February 5, 2014, US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel said at a congressional hearing that China was “lack of clarity with regard to its South China Sea claims has created uncertainty, insecurity and instability in the region.”[xvii]
On January 22, 2013, the Philippines initiated an arbitral proceedings against China at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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