China Says Willing to Facilitate North and South Korean Dialogue

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has spoken with his counterpart in South Korea about the nuclear threat from North Korea. Chinese Foreign Ministry said today the Communist Party chief told South Korea's Park Geun-hye he is willing to facilitate dialogues between the two. Xi said peace and stability on the Korean peninsula was also in China's best interest. North Korea has threatened to end an armistice with South Korea that ended civil war in 1953. Pyongyang is angry over joint military operations between South Korea and the United States. The Chinese regime is North Korea's biggest ally. Although China supported sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test, it says sanctions are not the answer.

Published on Mar 21, 2013 - In today's NTD China News, the US and Japan are in talks over operational plans in case of a Chinese attack on the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. South Korea says a massive attack on several of the country's banks have been traced to China, though they suspect North Korea is behind it. US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has pressed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang about acknowledging that Chinese state-backed hackers are launching attacks aimed at stealing trade secrets from US firms.

Falun Gong practitioners in Australia have rallied at the country's capital city against Chinese state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. US lawmakers have launched another bid to pressure the Chinese regime on its currency policy.

Canada's has announced it will cut direct aid to China, as part of a $377 million cut to 14 countries in total.

China's solar panel company, Suntech, has declared bankruptcy, after defaulting on a $541million bond payment last Friday.

24 people have died in southern China's Guangdong province after a tornado and hail storms.

The new Ip Man movie has debut in Hong Kong, opening the Hong Kong Film Festival.