"Chinese President Xi Jinping, in talks with the leader of Taiwan's ruling party, reaffirmed Beijing's support for closer cross-strait economic links-a policy that has reduced public support for Taiwan's government at home. Mr. Xi broadly restated Beijing's policies for dealing with Taiwan in a Monday meeting with Eric Chu, chairman of the Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang, or KMT. Their meeting was the highest-level talks in six years between leaders of China's Communist Party and the KMT, political heirs of the Chinese civil war that saw Taiwan split from the mainland, and it comes as their improving relations in recent years are being tested anew," reports The Wall Street Journal.
Reuters reports, "China has accused the Philippines of violating a 13-year-old informal code of conduct in the South China Sea with its building work on disputed islets, firing back again after repeated criticism of China's own construction work. China and the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed an agreement in 2002 to refrain from occupying uninhabited reefs and shoals in the sea, and from building new structures that would complicate disputes. In a statement just before midnight on Monday, China's Foreign Ministry urged the Philippines to stop its 'malicious hyping and provocation' on the dispute, whose basis, it said, was Manila's illegal occupation of certain Chinese islands."
According to Fox News, "The European Union's foreign policy chief said Tuesday she's confident the EU and China can agree to a common approach on climate change ahead of crucial carbon reduction talks in Paris this year. Federica Mogherini praised China's targets for gradually reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and said the sides should be able to agree on other goals at an upcoming bilateral summit...A unified EU-China approach will help make the Paris talks a success, something that is a 'common joint responsibility,'... A leading U.S. envoy for climate change expressed similar sentiments on a visit to Beijing in March. That appears to be raising hopes for a global plan to cut greenhouse emissions following the last U.N. climate summit in 2009 which ended without a significant agreement."