Xi Jinping set for North Korea visit next week, first since 2019 amid geopolitical strains
Beijing's latest diplomatic outreach to Pyongyang comes as North Korea balances ties with both China and Russia while expanding its nuclear capabilities.
Beijing's latest diplomatic outreach to Pyongyang comes as North Korea balances ties with both China and Russia while expanding its nuclear capabilities.
In China, the total number of accounts holding credit cards peaked at 807 million in September 2022, but it has reduced by nearly 15 per cent during a 14-straight-quarter decline.
A deadly gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s Shanxi Province has left 82 dead, prompting a massive rescue operation and an investigation ordered by Xi Jinping.
China and Russia projected deeper strategic unity in Beijing as Putin and Xi discussed BRICS expansion, global tensions and the future balance of world power.
China agreed to major US agricultural imports, Boeing aircraft purchases and rare earth cooperation following high-level talks between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Case numbers have been growing since last week in Shanghai, where staff shortages are causing delays in delivery services.
The Indian approach to Chinese aggression, that forgives their past transgressions in the hope that they would behave better in the future, has failed. Our naiveté can be gauged from the fact that we have allowed Chinese trade surplus to rise to the level that it exceeds India's defense budget, so that we are in effect, bankrolling Chinese aggression.
According to veteran foreign policy expert Michael E. O’Hanlon, “we are tending towards overhyping the China threat in a way that could raise the risks of war.”
According to Pomfret, things have changed substantially in China since the last time protests directed at the central government occurred in so many places simultaneously.
The efficacy of President Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid strategy has once again come into sharp focus, with the country recording its first deaths from novel coronavirus since May, while also recording increased numbers of cases.
