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washington —  This week, U.S. and Chinese officials held meetings in Washington aimed at building ties following months of tension since Beijing’s surveillance balloon floated across the U.S. in early February. For the former U.S. officials who used to broker such talks 15 years ago, the tensions reflect how Beijing…

China sees spike in Covid cases. AFP. China has been relying on its home-grown vaccines to fight the deadly Covid which has once again been infecting its population. However, Xi Jinping and his administration have been on denial that the jabs made in the country are less effective. Covid-19 cases…

China has banned the use of Micron's chips in critical infrastructure projects - Copyright AFP Hector RETAMAL Poornima WEERASEKARA, Luna LIN Beijing’s restrictions on American chipmaker Micron in retaliation to sweeping US chip curbs marks a major step up in its response to Washington’s pressure and could open the door…

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday exchanged congratulatory messages with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In his message, Xi pointed out that over the past 30 years, China-Eritrea relations have withstood changes in the international…

Meta faces a US1.3 billion dollar fine, the largest fine ever for violating GDPR privacy rules, Microsoft sounds the alarm on email fraud and why has China’s AI answer to ChatGPT been banned from talking about Winnie the Pooh? These top tech news stories and more for Tuesday, May 23,…

Updated 1 week ago · Published on 23 May 2023 3:00PM · Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is in China for talks with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. China and Russia have in recent years ramped up economic cooperation and diplomatic contacts, with their strategic partnership having grown…

The group “stand prepared to build constructive and stable relations” with Beijing, but stressed the importance of “engaging candidly…and expressing our concerns directly to China,” according to the joint communiqué. The communiqué, along with other statements released from the summit, also repeatedly emphasized “de-risking, not decoupling” with China — a…

China hosted a Central Asia Summit in its historic city of Xi’an on May 18 and 19, one day before this year’s Group of Seven (G-7) Summit in Japan’s Hiroshima from May 19 to 21. The Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with heads of state from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,…

To most of us, Mauritius is a holiday paradise, a nirvana for eco-tourists and honeymooners far removed from the slings of world politics and global crises. But this balmy island in the Indian Ocean is now the unlikely epicentre of a chilling power struggle between America and China. At the…

A meeting of some of China’s most senior politicians at the end of April 2023 concluded with a fairly cautious assessment of the country’s economic recovery. Things are improving, they said, but domestic demand needs to improve. The meeting in Beijing, headed by President Xi Jinping, was a review of China’s…