China on Tuesday demanded that the United States immediately revoke sanctions imposed against Chinese officials or face reciprocal countermeasures from Beijing. In a statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry considered Washington’s statement on the issue “full of ideological bias and political lies,” adding that the US is “discrediting China and suppressing Chinese ...
Russia has ended an arrangement dating back to 1991 that allowed Japanese citizens to visit the Kuril Islands without a visa, and has broken off talks with Japan on formally ending the Second World War, citing Tokyo’s “openly unfriendly” conduct in sanctioning Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. Due to ...