President Xi Jinping’s speech marking the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japan in World War II serves as a “wake-up call”, Hong Kong’s finance chief has said, as he laid out how the city is bolstering its role as a “superconnector” amid geopolitical challenges. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday that the…
China’s largest-ever military parade on Wednesday was meant to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Instead, experts say it marked the beginning of a new world order. Flanked by the leaders of some of the world’s most sanctioned nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping led what some analysts have dubbed an…
The past week has been a flurry of not only state-level diplomacy but also party-to-party outreach, with President Xi Jinping receiving a series of leaders from the four remaining communist countries on a single day. Xi held meetings with leaders from Cuba, North Korea, Laos and Vietnam, all of whom attended Wednesday’s military parade in…
SYDNEY — While the autocratic triumvirate of Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un of North Korea basked in the reflected glory of what’s believed to be China’s largest military parade ever, one important figure was absent: Narendra Modi of India. Modi made what analysts say was a clearly calculated appearance…
If Brussels bureaucrats returning from their long summer breaks this week were wondering what they missed, the local press had them covered. Unbecoming scenes at June’s Nato summit, the “hopelessly one-sided” trade deal with the United States in July, as well as President Xi Jinping’s refusal to travel to Belgium for that month’s summit with…
Goodwill messages continued this week’s unprecedented public display of diplomatic unity between Beijing, Pyongyang and Moscow. Published On 5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping that North Korea will support China in protecting its sovereignty, territory and development interests, as the pair met just a day…
Mathematics plays a big role in developing advanced weapons, top mathematician Shing-Tung Yau said in an interview with a Chengdu-based media outlet after watching China’s military parade in Tiananmen Square on Wednesday. “The development of cutting-edge weapons relies heavily on foundational disciplines such as mathematics and physics. Without original innovations and deep accumulation in basic…
China’s President Xi Jinping and his visiting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality as they chatted before a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, in comments picked up by state media microphones. Historic images showed Xi shaking hands and speaking with Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as…
SEOUL—When Kim Jong Un stepped off his bulletproof train in Beijing for this week’s extravagant commemoration of China’s victory in World War II, a smiling woman dressed in a demure navy pantsuit stood close behind the North Korean leader as he greeted China’s foreign minister. PREMIUM North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter…
As the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea gathered for a grand military parade in Beijing, President Trump on Wednesday took pains to brush off the striking show of solidarity among America’s adversaries. In remarks from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump praised the parade as “beautiful,” and “very, very impressive.” “I understood the reason…