SYDNEY: Australia will send a delegation of industry, government, academic, media and arts representatives to Beijing for a dialogue with their Chinese counterparts next week to stabilise its relationship with China, Canberra’s foreign ministry said Saturday (Sep 2). Trade, investment, people-to-people links as well as regional and international security areContinue Reading
STOCKHOLM: The United States House Foreign Affairs chair said on Friday (Sep 1) that a partnership of the Russian and Chinese leaders worried him, adding: “We have never seen a threat this large-scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” The alliance of Chinese leaderContinue Reading
ROME: A man wanted for the killing of his 18-year-old daughter has been extradited from Pakistan to Italy where he will face trial, the Italian justice minister said on Thursday (Aug 31). Shabbar Abbas was arrested in his village in eastern Pakistan last November on suspicion of killing Saman Abbas,Continue Reading
China Vice President Han Zheng told Cleverly at their meeting that he hoped the two countries could make new advances in their relations. The British government is under pressure from several lawmakers, including the former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who want London to toughen its policy on China and toContinue Reading
Prior to her meeting with He, Raimondo and Tourism Minister Hu Hepin agreed to hold the 14th China-US Tourism Leadership Summit in China in the first half of next year, a sign that improving people-to-people ties is important to putting a floor under the bilateral relationship. The step aimed toContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will visit Vietnam next month to meet with top officials on issues ranging from technology and the economy to regional stability and climate change, as Washington eyes closer ties in a region where China looms large. Biden will meet with Communist Party General Secretary NguyenContinue Reading
JOHANNESBURG: Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six nations invited on Thursday (Aug 24) to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies. The United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia are also set to join the bloc from 2024. The announcement was made at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg byContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Wednesday (Aug 23) it wanted to extend a science agreement with China but only for six months as it seeks revisions, following criticism from US lawmakers that it boosts an adversary. Signed in 1979 by president Jimmy Carter and China’s leader Deng Xiaoping, theContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday (Aug 23) expanded its sanctions against Myanmar to include foreign companies or individuals helping the country’s military junta to procure jet fuel that it uses to launch airstrikes on its own people, the US Treasury Department said in a statement. The Treasury was alsoContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday (Aug 23) expanded its sanctions against Myanmar to include foreign companies or individuals helping the country’s military junta to procure jet fuel that it uses to launch airstrikes on its own people, the US Treasury Department said in a statement. The Treasury was alsoContinue Reading