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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the Gulf Cooperation Council to conclude a free trade agreement that has been in discussion for decades. Wang’s meeting with Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, on Sunday in Riyadh, ...
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China and Jordan Discuss Closer Ties
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday, the conclusion of his trip to the Middle East. He also met with Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. The conversations focused on boosting economic cooperation, channeling more ...
China to Take Back Japan’s Last Two Giant Pandas
China will soon take back its last two giant pandas on loan to Japan, leaving the country without any giant pandas on public display for the first time since 1972. The twin pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, will have ...
Shaping Tomorrow: How China and Africa Are Negotiating a Shared Future
By Gaia Guatri Lagos—At 7:30 a.m., the light rail hums above the gridlock, gliding through the haze of exhaust and early heat. Built by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and financed through Chinese loans, the sleek blue carriages slice ...
China Orders Banks and Commerce to Boost Consumption
China orders banks and commerce officials to work more closely to boost consumption, directing coordination between financial institutions and commerce agencies as part of a domestic demand push. Consumption has been positioned as a core focus of economic planning under ...
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China's Permanent Representative to the UN, Fu Cong, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on a Hormuz resolution at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., April 7, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
By Felix Brender 王哲謙 When China and Russia vetoed the UN Security Council’s Strait of Hormuz resolution on 7 April, after weeks of increasingly plaintive calls for Beijing to “do more” over Iran, a familiar argument resurfaced: if China wants the status ...
U.S. to Build Philippine Boat Repair Facilities Near Contested South China Sea
The U.S. Navy plans to build two repair facilities for smaller vessels operating in the western Philippines, the U.S. embassy said Wednesday, with one about 240 kilometres east of a fiercely contested reef in the South China Sea. Located in the Spratly ...
China’s Solar Exports Fuel Rooftop Energy Revolution in Pakistan
By Zain Zaman Janjua Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favor of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt.
China Criticizes Paraguay on Taiwan
China’s Foreign Ministry criticized the news that the Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te is scheduled to visit Paraguay and Belize in August, a visit that could also see him making stopovers in the United States. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said: “We ...
Indian External Affairs Minister Meets with Senior CPC Official
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met with Liu Jianchao, the head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s gathering of foreign ministers in Tianjin. According to Jaishankar’s X feed, ...
Iran calls for Security Coordination within Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to formalize security coordination between member states. At the body’s Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Tianjin, China, on Wednesday, Araghchi proposed: "a permanent mechanism to monitor, document and coordinate ...