Chinese officials said the U.S. provides hundreds of billions in “discriminatory” subsidies to shipbuilding and other domestic industries, “yet accuses China of adopting so-called ‘non-market practices.’”
China scrambled fighter jets to “monitor the U.S. plane’s passage” and operated “in accordance of laws and regulations," a spokesperson for the Chinese army said.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s trip to South Korea came after Russia rejected the annual renewal of a panel monitoring North Korea’s evasion of U.N. sanctions over its weapons programs.
The farms in China’s northern Hebei and Liaoning provinces each held between 2,000 and 4,000 animals in intensive conditions, Humane Society International said.
North Korea has been seeking to strengthen its cooperation with China and Russia amid a standoff with the United States over the North’s advancing nuclear program.
A representative of Reporters Without Borders said she was given no explanation for her detention and deportation upon arrival in the Chinese territory.