All relevant parties should remain calm and avoid actions that intensify tensions," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile that flew over northern Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean earlier in the day

Such an independent policy is dealing a heavy blow to those who still view the relationship between the three countries as zero-sum

The Peace Ark left a naval port in China's Zhejiang province on July 26 to carry out its 155-day goodwill mission

In 2000, when he worked for a construction company in Benin, Luc got a chance to study in China with funding from the Chinese government

"We deem the Belt and Road Initiative as positive," Lee said Saturday in an interview with Xinhuanet, Xinhua's official website, noting that China's continuous economic growth has made China an increasingly larger and more important part in the international system