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.
A significant consequence of President Xi Jinping consolidating his hold in China has been Beijing’s renewed strategic focus on the Indo-Pacific as it works to a plan to dislodge America and decisively dominate the region.
XI Jinping and Joe Biden arrived in Bali for this week’s G20 summit buoyed by recent domestic successes. Their three hours of bilateral discussions on Monday may not have yielded any substantial results, but the extended and apparently amicable face-to-face encounter may help to decelerate rising Sino-US tensions.
In a clip recorded by the media pool at the now-concluded G20 summit in Bali, a visibly frustrated Xi pulls the Canadian Prime Minister aside.
Taipei has started taking concrete steps to defend and train itself in preparation for a "real war scenario," The Singapore Post reported.
US President Joe Biden met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the sun-drenched tropical paradise a day ahead of the formal inauguration of the summit for a marathon three-hour interaction which, while it expectedly ended without any agreement on the end game vis-a-via Taiwan, calmed global fears of a new Cold War to a considerable extent.
