BEIJING: China is the world’s largest cherry market, and Pakistan has reached a significant milestone by exporting its first shipment of fresh cherries to China. Utilizing a reefer container, Pakistan aims to export 260 tonnes of fresh cherries to China in reefer containers by the end of June. This achievement is a result of a phytosanitary agreement signed between China …
BEIJING: China on Thursday denounced the U.S.’s new sanctions on over 300 entities and individuals, including dozens of Chinese enterprises, which the U.S. side claimed helped Russia sustain military production to combat Ukraine. “China firmly opposes any illegal unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction. The normal economic and trade exchanges between China and Russia should not be interfered with, nor should …
BEIJING: Song Tao, a senior Taiwan affairs official, on Thursday called on the United States to work with China to maintain cross-Straits peace and stability, oppose “Taiwan independence” and support China’s reunification. Song, head of both the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made the …
BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday called for a full play to the strategic significance of “greater BRICS” to build the platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries into one of openness and inclusiveness. In the face of the battle between forces promoting a multipolar world and those upholding unipolar hegemony and between economic globalization and …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Saturday vowed to strengthen their strategic relations and safeguard common interests, besides promoting socio-economic development and well-being of the people of both countries. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the two sides agreed to work together to jointly uphold regional peace, stability, development and prosperity, and accelerate the building of an even closer “Pakistan-China community …
BEIJING: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Pakistani delegation with him visited China’s historical Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi’an on Saturday. The visit came following an invitation extended by Chinese President Xi Jinping to see the museum in his hometown. During the visit, the prime minister and the delegation were briefed on the preservation and restoration of historical heritage and …
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday spoke highly of China-Pakistan relations and called for more efforts to build a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Beijing. China and Pakistan are good neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, good friends who share faith and righteousness, …
ISLAMABAD/BEIJING: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, where they resolved to protect the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project “from its detractors and adversaries”, the Foreign Office (FO) said. Addressing a weekly press briefing, FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the two leaders held delegation-level talks this morning as the premier and his delegation’s five-day China …
ISLAMABAD/BEIJING: Appreciating the Chinese development model, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday Pakistan can become a great nation if it followed that model through hard work and focus on industrial and agricultural growth. “All Pakistanis will also have to pass through this thorny process. There is no other way to earn respect in the world,” the prime minister said …
BEIJING: China always holds an open attitude towards space cooperation with the U.S., a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday, urging the U.S. side to take practical measures to remove obstacles hindering cooperation in this field. Spokesperson Mao Ning made the remarks at a daily press briefing after NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Wednesday congratulated the success of China’s Chang’e-6 …