Chinese leader Xi Jinping visit to North Korea confirmed for next week

Relations rebuilding after years of relative isolation due to pandemic, Beijing’s denuclearisation stance and closer Pyongyang-Moscow ties Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea on Monday and Tuesday in a show of the two countries’ strong ties. Continue reading … Read More

Putin and Xi hail their friendship and growing energy trade at their meeting in Beijing

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed their strategic ties and growing energy trade as they met in Beijing Wednesday only days after a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to China. Putin and … Read More

China-led SCO economic summit is a show designed to rattle the West

The striking optics of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit are what people are likely to remember – leaders from some of the most populous, influential and anti-American nations in the world chatting, eating and laughing together. The agreements struck … Read More

Ukraine launches more drone attacks at Moscow as China’s President Xi prepares to fly in for Putin’s Victory Day showpiece – while Russia pounds Kyiv in revenge strikes hours before planned ceasefire

Ukraine has targeted Moscow with drones for a third consecutive day as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to host 29 world leaders to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Most of the Russian … Read More

Xi pledges more Gaza aid and talks trade at summit with Arab leaders

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promised more humanitarian aid for people in Gaza as he opened a summit with leaders of Arab states Thursday in Beijing. “Since … Read More

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