China has expelled Canada’s consul in Shanghai in retaliation for Ottawa sending home a Chinese diplomat accused of trying to intimidate a Canadian MP. On Monday, Canada declared China’s diplomat Zhao Wei “persona non grata” and ordered her to leave the country. In response, China on Tuesday ordered the removal of Jennifer Lynn Lalonde, Canada’s…
A long-range Chinese combat drone capable of carrying a large weapons payload has circled Taiwan, the island’s defence ministry said Friday. ADVERTISING Democratic Taiwan lives under constant threat of an attack by Beijing, which views the island as part of its territory. Taiwan’s defence ministry said it detected 38 Chinese aircraft, including a TB-001 drone…
BUENOS AIRES, April 26 (Reuters) – Argentina will start to pay for Chinese imports in yuan rather than dollars, the government announced Wednesday, a measure that aims to relieve the country’s dwindling dollar reserves. In April, it aims to pay around $1 billion of Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars and thereafter around $790…
Energy cooperation helped China’s overall trade with Russia maintain its strong growth momentum in the first quarter with an increase of 38.7% from a year earlier, far outpacing the growth of China’s total trade. Energy cooperation took more than 40 percent of bilateral commodity trade, playing a pivotal role, and with the promotion of local…
In one of its most explicit statements yet, China pledged to set boundaries on its increasingly-close relationship with Russia, vowing not to sell weapons to either side of the war in Ukraine. During a Friday news conference, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said, “China will not provide weapons to relevant parties of the conflict, and…
China and Brazil have reached a deal to trade in their own currencies, ditching the United States dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday. The deal, Beijing’s latest salvo against the almighty greenback, will enable China, the top rival to US economic hegemony, and Brazil, the biggest economy in Latin America, to…
March 22 (UPI) — Chinese President Xi Jinping left Moscow on Wednesday after securing new energy assurances and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgement that Taiwan is part of China. Xi departed Vnukovo-2 Airport Wednesday morning, concluding a three-day visit watched closely by the United States and western Europe for signs of Beijing’s support of Moscow…
Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Russia next week from Monday to Wednesday, in an apparent show of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid sharpening East-West tensions over the war in Ukraine. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is expected to dominate Putin and Xi’s discussions. China has refused to condemn Moscow’s aggression and…
BEIJING/HONG KONG, March 16 (Reuters) – China’s Baidu unveiled its much-awaited artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Ernie Bot on Thursday, but disappointed investors with its use of pre-recorded videos and the lack of a public launch, sending its shares tumbling. The just over an hour-long presentation, which came two days after Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google…