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By Humeyra Pamuk, Trevor Hunnicutt and Tim Kelly WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) - When a Reuters reporter asked a U.S. State Department spokesperson this ...
When a Reuters reporter asked a U.S. State Department spokesperson last week about a sarcastic social media post by the U.S. ambassador to Japan concerning China's missing defense minister, the reply was appropriately diplomatic. The ambassador, Rahm Emanuel, has always spoken in "a colorful manner," said Matthew Miller, rest...
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu is under investigation for corruption and likely will be removed, two U.S. officials said this week, in what would be the latest in a series of top-tier purges of Beijing's security ranks.
By Humeyra Pamuk, Trevor Hunnicutt and Tim Kelly
A rare meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at a space launch center in the Russian Far East earlier this week has triggered alarm from countries from South Korea and Japan to Ukraine, the United States and its partners in Europe.