The US-led coalition, including the Kurdish armed units, lets militants of the Islamic State terrorist group leave Raqqa instead of killing them, the commander of Russia’s force grouping in Syria, Sergey Surovikin said. “Instead of eliminating terrorists guilty of killing hundreds and thousands of Syrian civilians, the US-led coalition together with the Democratic Forces Union controlled by it enters in collusion with ringleaders of the IS, who give up the settlements they had seized without fighting and head to the provinces where the Syrian government forces are active,” he said.Source TASS
- Relations between Ottawa and Beijing are at a turning point, according to former Canadian ambassador to China David Mulroney.
- ‘We are coming to the end of a long period during which China has been allowed to be a free rider,’ he says.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it was adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications to its national security “entity list” that bars them from buying U.S. parts and components without government approval. Source: Reuters
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Xi Jinping departed Friday for home after concluding a two-day state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
China would like to offer as much help as possible to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to address its legitimate security and development concerns, President Xi said on Thursday. Source: China Daily
