Editor's note: The following is a speech made by Premier Li Keqiang at a meeting on functional transformation and institutional reform of local governments on Nov 1.
"There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example - where had they gone? It was a spring without voices."
Over the next two or three weeks, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet is expected make a decision on whether to revise the government's stance on Japan's right to exercise collective self-defense, said a key security adviser to Abe on Wednesday.
Tokyo has kept China informed about a fishing boat with 12 crew members being detained on Tuesday on suspicion of operating illegally in Japan's exclusive economic zone, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Wednesday.
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China's top nuclear envoy continued his shuttle diplomacy on Wednesday with a trip to Pyongyang in the hopes of narrowing the differences among countries for an early resumption of the suspended Six-Party Talks.
As US Vice-President Joseph Biden prepares for his East Asian trip amid a bitter row between Beijing and Tokyo, the issue of how the United States and China, the world's two largest economies, handle their relationship has again moved to the front burner.
China is beginning to take a larger stake in Brazil's oil industry, a move that the South American nation welcomes, said Brazilian Ambassador to China Valdemar Carneiro Leao.
Experts have criticized US media outlets for their unbalanced coverage of terrorism after a car crashed and exploded in Tian'anmen Square, saying such coverage could damage the national interests of the two countries.
Three Chinese experts on Monday began training in The Hague on how to verify the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons - the most dangerous assignment in the history of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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