Reuters writes, "Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Britain on a state visit later this year, a Foreign Office minister said on Tuesday, while fending off lawmakers' accusations that London was reluctant to confront Beijing over Hong Kong... It would reflect warming economic relations between China and Britain even though political tensions persist... Protests demanding greater democracy in Hong Kong, a former British colony, have strained bilateral ties, and China last year prevented members of parliament's foreign affairs committee from visiting Hong Kong as part of an inquiry into Britain's relations with the island. On Tuesday, members of the committee criticized the British government for not doing more to protest against what they said was an insult to parliament and Britain as a whole." 

"China is ramping up its assistance in the fight against Ebola by dispatching an additional 232 army medical workers to West Africa, state media reported Tuesday...They will join 43 army doctors and 35 specialists from the Chinese Center for Disease Control already working in Sierra Leone, where they have treated 61 patients and trained 1,600 local medical workers...China, which has not reported any Ebola cases, has already provided $121 million in cash and supplies to the fight against the disease in West Africa...The country is also seeking to boost its humanitarian and diplomatic engagement with Africa on a level commensurate with its economic involvement on the continent," reports The Washington Post. 

According to The Huffington Post, "The recent, widely heralded bilateral climate accord between the U.S. and China was a step in the right direction in terms of moving towards a global climate agreement. Nonetheless, it has glaring shortcomings that illustrate the perils of voluntary pledges, each nation operating in its own autonomous emissions bubble and on its own schedule, impervious to any absolute global emission and temperature limit. Thus China, the world's largest coal producer, coal consumer, and carbon emitter, committed itself to plateau its emissions by 2030. The U.S. in turn pledged to cut its annual emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025, relative to 2005 emission levels. However China refused to set a maximum emission level at which its emissions would crest...only one percent of China's energy supply today comes from non-hydro renewable energy sources. Coal, however, provides two thirds of China's power."