A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Monday that French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, will visit China from March 27 to 28. Jean-Noël Barrot will pay the visit at the invitation of Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and minister of…
This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. Foreign Minister Wang Yi faced the press on Friday morning to lay out Beijing’s foreign policy direction. This came as China…
New Delhi: The Centre today strongly condemned a security breach during External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar’s visit to the United Kingdom, denouncing the actions of a “small group of separatists and extremists.” A demonstration was staged by pro-Khalistan protesters outside Chatham House in London, where Mr Jaishankar participated in a discussion on Wednesday. The…
Japan’s new Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said on Wednesday that Tokyo wants a “stable relationship” with China based on common interests, although “what we need to assert will be asserted”. “We hope to mutually work towards building a constructive and stable relationship,” Iwaya said in his first press conference after being nominated by Prime Minister…