Tag: Xi Jinping

Modi-Xi summit could be game-changer in Sino-India ties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will focus on the ‘big picture’ in ties between their two nations when they meet in the Chinese city of Wuhan in an informal setting for their summit on 27-28 April.

April 24, 2018

Swaraj meets Chinese President Xi Jinping day after announcement of Modi’s visit

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday in Beijing, a day after the announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to China.

April 23, 2018

Informal Modi-Xi summit will enhance chemistry between them: Chinese envoy

  China’s Ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui on Sunday hoped that an informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping later this week in the Chinese city of Wuhan will enhance “good chemistry” between the two leaders and strengthen bilateral ties. After a meeting with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, China’s Foreign …

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April 23, 2018

PM Modi to visit China on April 27, hold ‘informal meeting’ with Xi Jinping

The development was confirmed following a bilateral meeting between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Sunday.

April 22, 2018

Season of Summits

As the peace-wind starts sweeping across the Korean Peninsula with the first of the formal Inter-Korean summit talks scheduled to be held on April 27 at the border village of Panmunjom, expectations are high for an enduring peace in the peninsula after an ominously disturbing phase in 2017 in the wake of North Korea’s serial …

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April 19, 2018

India’s place on Asia’s curious chessboard

In the Indian sub-continent where the two forthcoming regional players are locking horns over several issues, a curious chess board of bilateral relationships is unfolding. India has cautiously played out its strategic stance over the recently retracted emergency situation in Maldives, while China went out upfront. In a similar deadlock, China has reportedly been engaged …

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April 13, 2018

Encouraged by Xi’s remarks, but want ‘concrete actions’: Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping’s pledge to open up the world’s second-largest economy, even as the White House ruled out reversing the 25 per cent import tariffs worth USD 50 billion on Chinese products, saying America wants “concrete actions” from Beijing. In his keynote address at the Boao …

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April 11, 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend Boao Forum for Asia

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Boao Forum for Asia, dubbed the Asian Davos, a meeting of economic and political leaders, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. The forum, scheduled for April 8 to 11 in Boao, a coastal town in China’s Hainan island province, will be themed “An Open and Innovative Asia …

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April 3, 2018

In pictures: The world in the week that went by

The world was full of events this week, as usual. But some of them were a little more significant than the others because of the implications they carried. Here are six of the most powerful pictures covering every emotion from grief to resolve.

April 1, 2018

Trade friction, not war

For all the posturing in Washington and Beijing, it is early days to hazard a guess over whether the looming trade war is actually a confrontation between two paper tigers. The world’s largest economies have emitted conflicting signals over whether they are gearing up for an all-out trade war, one that could have its ramifications …

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March 31, 2018

China says ties with India developing with ‘sound momentum’

China said its ties with India have been on an upswing recently and both sides have seen new achievements in political cooperation and various other fields

March 29, 2018

Kim in China

The international speculation over the “green train”, in which Kim Jong-un travelled from Pyongyang to Beijing and back has ended with Xinhua putting out visuals of Xi Jinping greeting the North Korean leader at the Great Hall of the People. Both leaders have confirmed Kim’s secret trip to Beijing. In point of fact, it is …

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March 29, 2018

Kim Jong-un holds talks with Xi Jinping in Beijing

At the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese president, Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), paid an unofficial visit to China from Sunday …

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March 28, 2018

China told Trump of Kim Jong-un’s visit: White House

China told the US that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited Beijing this week, the White House has said. The communication on Monday between Beijing and Washington also included a message from Chinese President Xi Jinping for his US counterpart, Donald Trump, a statement said on Tuesday, Efe news reported. White House Press Secretary Sarah …

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March 28, 2018

Kim Jong-un secretly visits Beijing, meets Xi Jinping

After keeping it under wraps and the world guessing, China on Wednesday announced North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was indeed in Beijing, and met Chinese President Xi Jinping. An arrival of a special North Korean train and heightened security in Beijing had led the media to believe Kim was in town but neither Beijing nor …

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March 28, 2018

China readies for war

Kings and emperors are known to wear a crown of thorns. The prickliest of them in their headgear is an uncertainty about their popular appeal because, unlike democracies, there is no way for the monarchs to know whether they are liked or disliked by hoi polloi. There is always the fear, therefore, that unknown to …

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March 28, 2018

Inching towards Taiwan

After his re-election to a second term in office, the Chinese President struck a strongly nationalistic tone in his closing address to the annual session of the National People’s Congress, with a firm assertion that China would never allow “one inch” of territory to be separated from it. Xi thundered that China is ready to …

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March 26, 2018