Category: Diplomacy

The foreign ministry announced Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend a leaders' meeting and pay state visits to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan starting on Tuesday. Beijing has ramped up diplomatic efforts in Central Asia. Xi Jinping called for a deepening ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính in Beijing on Wednesday for talks that focused on infrastructure development. The Prime Minister is looking for more Chinese support to bolster Vietnam's rail and energy sectors. (VN EXPRESS)

Japan and the Philippines are to hold high-level defence and security talks next month, the foreign department said Friday, as the two countries seek to boost ties in the face of China's growing regional pressure. Japan's Defence Minister Minoru Kihara and ...

By Agatha Cantrill An executive from China's battery giant CATL said on Thursday that Western tariffs tied to electric vehicles present a "challenge" for the firm and are bad for customers as well. Citing unfair ...

A top US official on Thursday told a Chinese counterpart that Washington's defense commitments to the Philippines were "ironclad" after a violent clash in the South China Sea. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell "raised serious concerns" about Chinese actions in ...

Sri Lanka's bilateral lenders, who agreed to restructure close to $6 billion in loans, have demanded "comparability of treatment" with other creditors, including China. A statement seen by AFP on Thursday read that the Official Creditor Committee (OCC), led by Japan, ...

By Chris Alden What happens when a card-carrying BRICS member has an election and changes government? Do changes in domestic politics produce changes in policy towards BRICS? South Africa’s recent election in which the leading internationalist party – the governing African ...

Major Chinese assets in the Middle East have largely remained unscathed from the effects of the war in Gaza. Several Chinese cargo ships passing through the Red Sea have been attacked by Houthi militants in the past few months, likely inadvertently, but other than that there's been ...

The Peruvian government formally withdrew its legal petition to block Chinese shipping giant Cosco from having exclusive rights to operate the new Chancay "mega port" that's near completion. The move marks a sharp reversal from its position in March when it ...

By Parvaiz Bukhari Lines on a map once meant little to India's Tibetan herders of the high Himalayas, expertly guiding their goats through even the harshest winters to pastures on age-old seasonal routes. That stopped ...

By Amal Jayasinghe Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it had clinched a restructuring deal with key bilateral lender China and other nations, covering up to $10 billion in debt. This is a critical step towards recovery after the 2022 financial crash.

The Indonesian arm of e-commerce firm Shopee has admitted violating anti-monopoly rules and agreed to change some of its operations, Indonesia's antitrust agency, or KPPU, said on Wednesday. The KPPU said in May it was monitoring the Indonesian units of e-commerce ...