The Ukrainian Navy said Sunday that Russian forces opened fire and seized three Ukrainian ships near the Kerch Strait, wounding six Ukrainian military sailors, two of them in serious condition.
The US government has increased additional tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent on 200 billion US dollars' worth of Chinese goods arriving in the United States since June 15. It also threatened to raise tariffs on some additional 300 billion dollars' worth of Chinese imports.
The US State Department tweeted a photo of Wang with the department's special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, at the Zurich airport. Media reports said Wang flew to Switzerland from Iran and was met by Hook in Zurich.
The US energy industry expects a strong long-term energy relationship with China, a US energy official told US and Chinese oil and gas executives the day after China announced a retaliatory 10 percent tariff on US natural gas.
The US job market had been strong prior to the economic shutdown, and unemployment was at 3.5 percent, near a record low. In the six months prior to the shutdown, non-farm employers hired an average of 221,000 workers a month, the Labor Department said.
The United States published a long-awaited list of Russian officials and business leaders eligible for sanctions for alleged meddling in the US presidential elections at the end of January, includes 114 senior Russian political personages, as well as 96 "oligarchs" as designated by the Treasury Department.
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The US government branches unreasonably labeled Chinese commercial banks as "public institutions", regardless of the fact that they have been market-oriented, Wang said.
The US is deploying an aircraft carrier and accompanying vessels to waters near the peninsula amid indications the DPRK is planning its sixth nuclear test.
The United States remains the nation hit the worst by the pandemic, with the world's highest caseload and death toll, accounting for more than 18 percent of global deaths.
The US had disregarded facts by sensationalizing China's so-called militarization of the South China Sea and had used it as an excuse on Wednesday to cancel China's invitation to the multilateral naval exercise, ministry spokesman Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang said in a statement.