Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Thursday that he is ready to work with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to push forward China-U.S. relations from a new starting point.

Before President Xi Jinping's meeting with his U.S. counterpart, President Trump, at the Mar-a-lago estate in Florida from April 6 to 7, People's Daily Online summarized some of Xi Jinping's quotes on Sino-U.S. relations.

The U.S. military on Thursday launched a targeted missile strike at a Syrian military airfield in its first direct assault on the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since six years ago.

The new Japanese law on preserving remote island areas may escalate the territorial spat between China and Japan, experts said.

The first Chinese university to own an overseas branch school, Peking University will open its Oxford campus in 2018.

China confirmed Thursday that it has lodged solemn representations to India over a visit by the Dalai Lama to a disputed region.