Archive for the ‘Central Asia’ Category

China has successfully tested its advanced air defence capabilities, intercepting a missile in mid-flight within its territory, state media reported. "The test has achieved the expected objective," the official Xinhua news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying on Tuesday. The report on the "ground-based mid-course missile interception technology" comes amid tensions over US arms sales to Taiwan. Last week ... Full story

A North Korean diplomat has said that his country will resume talks on its nuclear programme only when all international sanctions have been lifted. Choe Jin-su, the North Korean envoy to China, said the sanctions were "an expression of distrust" between Pyongyang and Washington, and cautioned that the US must also agree to peace treaty talks. "Only concluding a peace treaty can ... Full story

The US government has backed a move by Google to end its support for China's censoring of internet searches after a spate of cyber attacks on the internet giant's email accounts. In a statement the White House said it supported the search giant's threat to possibly pull out of the country, saying the issue was important both from a point of view ... Full story