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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…

As the Group of Seven (G7) leaders meet in Japan, China is holding its own summit. Chinese president Xi Jinping is hosting the first-ever in-person meeting of five Central Asian nations in Xian, the capital of the northwestern province of Shaanxi. The summit comes as China is making efforts to…

Already have Rappler+? to listen to groundbreaking journalism. FILE PHOTO: Chinese commercial fishing boats moored on the outer anchorage in Strait of Singapore. Igor Grochev/shutterstock President Xi Jinping orders all efforts be made to search for the missing crew, which includes 17 Chinese nationals, 17 Indonesians and five from the…

“We’ve carefully studied your proposals to resolve the acute crisis in Ukraine,” Putin told Xi in televised comments at the start of their one-on-one talks in the Kremlin Monday. “We’ll discuss all these issues, including your initiative, which we of course view with respect.” The trip to Moscow marks Xi’s…