In a historic first, leadership in Beijing met a former leader of Taiwan, the Opposition’s Ma Ying-jeou, in mainland China and called for reunification.
Xi’s absence at COP28 was conspicuous, particularly when other prominent world leaders were present, including Narendra Modi, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, and Rishi Sunak.
Leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum are in San Francisco for the 30th summit. This is the first time the leaders of China-Japan met face-to-face in a year.
A US official quoted Xi Jinping as saying China's preference was for peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan, but that he also talked about conditions in which force could be used.
The two leaders are expected to discuss various issues, including restoring military-to-military communication between the two countries, and the conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.
Speaking at 13th National Women’s Congress this week, Chinese president said, 'Doing a good job in women’s work... related to family harmony... national development and national progress'.
Biden, Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken 'discussed the prospect of a Biden-Xi summit in talks with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi' at the White House last week.
Experts say, by having the Russian President come down, ignoring an international court's arrest warrant against him, Beijing wants to label international law as solely for Western powers.
In his speech, Modi spoke about energy, critical minerals, electronics, defence and fertilisers. That is a more strategic approach than Nehru’s across-the-board one.
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.
New Delhi: India has handed over military equipment, medical supplies, trained dogs and horses to the Nepalese Army Monday, ahead of Prime Minister K.P....
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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