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CHINESE Foreign Minister Wang Yi suggested yesterday a deal to end the long-running standoff between the US and North Korea.
Mr Wang proposed a compromise whereby Pyongyang would end its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes in return for an end to huge annual US-South Korean military exercises.
The minister told reporters frictions between North Korea, Washington and Seoul were like “two accelerating trains” heading for each other, with neither side willing to give way.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE