Former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou waves to reporters before leading a delegation of students to China I-Hwa Cheng Text size Former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou headed to China on Wednesday for a trip he said was aimed at building “a bridge for peace”, after Beijing last week intensified military drills around the island. Ma, who…
Text size China’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Beijing and Washington can achieve “many great things” as long as they work together, ahead of the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump next month. Initiatives such as financial talks and cross-border drug control “fully prove that as long as China and the United States cooperate, we…
As Britain’s new Labour government bids to reset long-fraught ties with China amid a suspected spy scandal, another issue could mar relations: Beijing’s controversial plans to open the largest embassy in the UK. China has for several years been trying to relocate its embassy, currently in the British capital’s upmarket Marylebone district, to a sprawling…
Text size China on Monday announced it would hold high-level talks later this week with India on their border disputes — the first such discussions in five years, signalling a possible thaw in frosty ties. Relations had been tense since a deadly military encounter in 2020 on the border between Tibet and India’s Ladakh region,…
Text size Beijing said Monday that plans by the United States to hike tariffs on more Chinese imports “pile errors onto errors”, after Washington homed in on products including crucial solar panel components. The moves announced Wednesday by the US Trade Representative’s office cap a review of tariffs imposed during President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration….
Text size US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday slammed “coercive behaviour” by China, after Taiwan said Beijing was carrying out its biggest maritime mobilisation around the self-ruled island in years. “Now we’re clear-eyed about the challenges to peace and stability in this region and worldwide,” the Pentagon chief said as he met his Japanese…
Text size A major Myanmar ethnic rebel group has sent a delegation to China for talks with its government, its spokesman told AFP on Monday, as Beijing looks to end fighting along its southern border. A delegation from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) had left on Sunday “for talks with the Chinese government” at China’s…
This is Russia’s imperialist thinking laid bare: a belief in greatness that demands sacrifice, a messianic purpose untethered from reason and a chilling comfort with violence. No war crime is too heinous, no bomb too big for a system that knows nothing but oppression and subjugation. Many in Russia are even bizarrely convinced they’re liberating Ukraine…
Overall, the front lines of Syria’s civil war have been stagnant since 2020, although there have been fierce episodic clashes. For the past four years, Assad has controlled much of the country and its largest cities; a Turkey-tolerated, HTS-led alliance of mostly Islamist rebels have remained squeezed in an enclave in Idlib and parts of…
Text size The United States said Monday that its travel warning for China, which it relaxed last week after three American prisoners were freed, could move back up if Beijing again arrests US citizens. President Joe Biden’s administration last week announced the release of the last US citizens considered by Washington to be wrongfully detained…