The meeting was attended by External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Japan Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
India’s maritime ambitions cannot be measured by a ceremonial warship commissioning or ambitious infrastructure announcements alone.
China’s latest economic numbers expose a contradiction that has been building for years.
The US President also alleged that intelligence referring to possible ballot manufacturing and efforts to influence journalists was withheld from him and Congress.
The Chinese Embassy also pointed to rising AI adoption, stronger manufacturing output, expanding trade with Africa and continued investment in research and development as evidence that China's economic momentum remains intact despite growing global protectionism.
Amid rising bilateral tensions, Japan has quietly dispatched one of its top foreign ministry officials to China, to try and ease the hostilities, following the political fallout between Tokyo and Beijing after the two Asian powers were engaged in a series of brief military and diplomatic confrontations.
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence detected the presence of 13 sorties of Chinese aircraft, seven naval vessels and one official ship operating around its territorial waters as of 6 am (local time) on Tuesday.
China’s younger generation is quietly rewriting the country’s economic script. Unlike the consumer-driven youth cultures of earlier decades, today’s urban millennials and Gen Z in China are embracing a lifestyle defined by restraint, not indulgence.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday said that "Taiwan is China's Taiwan" and asserted that the country "must and will achieve reunification," warning that "how to solve the Taiwan question and achieve reunification is China's own affair that does not tolerate any foreign interference."
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry has revealed that the organisation is re-evaluating its planned entry into Esports and that an expert group is examining the issue of transgender women's participation to protect the female category.
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