China needs “at least three aircraft carriers” to protect its extensive coastline and its interests abroad, a senior Chinese naval expert said Wednesday. “Our country has an 18,000-kilometre (11,000-mile) long coastline. Also, our economy is outward looking and our interests abroad are growing,” said Commodore Zhang Junshe, a member of ...
US President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday that US-China trade negotiations were going “very well” as officials held talks in Beijing that will spill into a third day. A member of the US delegation said the two sides would resume talks on Wednesday as they continue their first face-to-face meetings since ...