As US President Donald Trump takes a flame-thrower to relations with Europe, Chinese diplomats have been moving through the continent with a message: your best friend has abandoned you. Let’s uphold the multilateral order together. The message was transmitted, either in this language or similar terms, over recent weeks in Brussels, Dublin, Munich and Paris,…
Donald Trump (L) and Russia’s Vladimir Putin arrive to attend a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. Yuri Kadobnov | Afp | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine could lose its sovereignty to Russia, and said he wanted compensation for the aid…
Sandwiched between US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and China’s heavy incentives for domestic producers, the European Union wants to give its own companies preferential treatment when bidding for hi-tech contracts. The move – to be proposed on Wednesday in a programme designed to turbo-boost the bloc’s lagging competitiveness – could put it on…
The bloc’s executive arm, the European Commission, said on Friday it had requested a resumption at the Geneva trade courts, ending a week of speculation over whether it would let the suit expire. The case was launched in 2022, after a fierce dispute between Vilnius and Beijing over a controversially named “Taiwanese Representative Office” in…
Hong Kong will welcome more than 1.4 million mainland Chinese tourists over Lunar New Year, the city leader has predicted, saying the trend of having overseas visitors will be noticeable in the Year of the Snake. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday a 23-minute fireworks display and a parade featuring international performance groups…
Hong Kong will welcome more than 1.4 million mainland Chinese tourists over Lunar New Year, the city leader has predicted, saying the trend of having overseas visitors will be noticeable in the Year of the Snake. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday a 23-minute fireworks display and a parade featuring international performance groups…
HONG KONG- The flag carrier of Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific (CX) has announced that it will commence operations to Munich (MUC) from June 2025 and relaunch its flights to Brussels (BRU) from August 2025. The flights will be operational at a frequency of four times per week. The airline’s announcement comes in light of its…
As the war in Ukraine reached the 1,000-day mark last week, Ukrainian troops hit targets inside Russia with long-range missiles supplied by the US and Britain. In response, Russia launched a ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in a blitz that analysts say has intensified as Moscow and Kyiv have tried to seize…
The European Union has “conclusive” evidence that armed drones are being produced for the Russian military in China’s western Xinjiang region and has demanded answers from Beijing, several diplomatic sources have confirmed. EU foreign ministers will discuss the intelligence at a meeting in Brussels on Monday, with some of the bloc’s 27 member states calling…
Donald Trump’s return to the White House could present a chance for China and Europe to mend trade ties, the EU ambassador to Beijing has said, while warning of geopolitical “choppy waters ahead”. “What happened a couple of days or three days ago in the US may change … the global landscape but it can…