EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has ordered top EU officials to skip a series of meetings in Hungary amid ire over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brussels said on Monday. Orban – whose country this month took over the rotating presidency of the body representing the European Union’s 27 […]
Read MoreBEIJING, July 11 (Reuters) – China’s leaders will seek to inject confidence in the economy at a highly anticipated meeting next week, but conflicting goals, such as boosting growth while cutting debt, may mean little progress toward implementing change. The Communist Party leadership meeting will outline efforts to promote advanced manufacturing, revise the tax system […]
Read MoreA Japanese navy destroyer made a rare entry into China’s territorial waters near Taiwan earlier this month without notifying China and sparking “serious concerns” from Beijing, Japanese media outlets reported late on Wednesday. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s destroyer Suzutsuki sailed into China’s waters off Zhejiang province on July 4, where China had announced it would […]
Read MoreChina has warned NATO against “provoking confrontation” over its ties with Russia after the Western military alliance accused Beijing of being a “decisive enabler” of Moscow’s war against Ukraine. The warning on Thursday came as NATO leaders meeting in Washington, DC, promised to bolster Ukraine and Europe’s defences against Russia and made clear that China […]
Read MoreBangladesh and China have agreed to enhance cooperation in financial regulation and encourage increased use of local currency settlement in bilateral trade, according to a joint statement issued after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s three-day official visit to Beijing. Hasina returned home in the early hours of today (11 July) after talks with Chinese President Xi […]
Read MoreBEIJING, June 28 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Friday for the building of “bridges” in the global economy, as Beijing grapples with economic, trade and territorial disputes with neighbours and trading partners. The world’s second-largest economy will never leave the road of peaceful development, Xi told a conference to commemorate China’s guiding […]
Read MoreHONG KONG, June 16 (Reuters) – China’s National Meteorological Centre on Sunday issued an alert for high temperatures as multiple regions across the country experience sweltering heat, while many southern provinces issued severe flood warnings due to heavy rains. The intensity of high temperatures is expected to decrease in north China and regions between the […]
Read MoreKAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, June 16 (Reuters) – China views the annexation and “elimination” of Taiwan as its great national cause, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, telling cadets at the military’s premier academy they must know their enemy and not give in to defeatism. Lai has faced sustained personal attacks from China, which views Taiwan […]
Read MoreHONG KONG, May 31 (Reuters) – China will reinstate tariffs next month on 134 items it imports from Taiwan, after the Ministry of Finance said it would suspend concessions on the items under a trade deal because Taiwan had not reciprocated. China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has been ramping up […]
Read MoreURUMQI, May 31 (Xinhua) — China and five Central Asian nations have officially established a China-Central Asia emergency management cooperation mechanism. China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan signed a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of the mechanism during a ministerial meeting in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on […]
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