Germany demands more free trade guarantees on China Silk Road plan – minister

Germany demands more free trade guarantees on China Silk Road plan – minister

Germany demands more free trade guarantees on China Silk Road plan - minister

Germany warned on Sunday it will not sign a joint statement at China's Belt and Road initiative if a pact doesn't include guarantees on free trade and fair competition, the nation's minister of economic affairs and energy said. The remarks by Brigette Zypries were some of the most outspoken by a government minister as leaders from 29 countries gathered for the forum.


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N.Korea fires missile days after new S.Korea leader pledges dialogue

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of calls to rein in its weapons programme, South Korean and U.S. officials said, days after a new leader took office in the South, pledging to engage it in dialogue. The U.S. Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile but it was "not consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile". The missile flew 700 km (430 miles) and reached an altitude of more than 2,000 km (1,245 miles), according to officials in South Korea and Japan, further and higher than an intermediate-range missile North Korea successfully tested in February from the same region of Kusong, northwest of its capital, Pyongyang.


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