A Chinese aircraft carrier was sailing in the Taiwan Strait today, the Taiwan Ministry of Defense announced, a few hours before the conversation between the presidents of China and the United States, Reuters reported. China has intensified its military activity near the island for the past two years, alarming Taipei and Washington. A source with […]
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China: Xi Jinping orders continuation of Covid zero tolerance policy
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the continuation of the zero tolerance policy in Covid and the fight “as soon as possible” of the epidemic, national television reported. China has been facing the worst outbreak of the epidemic for a few days now after its first wave in 2020. Tens of millions are in lockdown […]
Xi Jinping calls for ‘maximum restraint’ in Ukraine
Chinese President Xi Jinping today called for “maximum restraint” in Ukraine and said China was “in pain to see the flames of war re-ignited in Europe,” state media said today in its strongest statement on the conflict. Xi, speaking online to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Solz, said the three countries should […]
Xi Jinping: ‘Global confrontation between great powers is likely to have catastrophic consequences’
Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned that a global confrontation between the major powers is likely to have “catastrophic consequences” during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which is being held online because of the pandemic. In 2017, the Chinese leader had caused a stir in Davos when he defended free trade […]
Chinese Foreign Minister: Beijing is not afraid of confrontation with Washington
China is not afraid of confrontation with the United States, but would welcome cooperation if it is mutually beneficial, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said today. The problems in the US-China relationship are due to “incorrect strategic assessments” by the US side, Wang said in a speech posted on the State Department website. “If there […]
Beijing ready for ‘new level of relations’ with Berlin under new Chancellor Soltz
Chinese President Xi Jinping today congratulated new German Chancellor Olaf Solz on his election and noted that China intends to take relations with Germany to a “new level”. Sino-German relations have generally been good over the past 16 years, in contrast to those between Beijing and other European countries, which may have been strained, such […]
Biden – XI Summit: US – China Remain Stable
The long-awaited digital summit of US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping has ended, at which the leaders of the world’s two largest economies agreed that the risk of competition between them should be prevented. the others insisted on their fixed positions. “We did not expect any sudden progress and there was […]
Xi Jinping says ‘ready to work’ with Washington ahead of digital meeting with Joe Biden
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he is “ready to work with the United States” despite tensions between the world’s two largest economies ahead of an upcoming digital conference with US counterpart Joe Biden. The meeting, the first by teleconference since the Democratic president arrived at the White House in January after two phone calls, […]
Xi Jinping opens Davos by calling for multilateralism: “the world will never be what it was in the past”
China came to the virtual Davos Forum as the clear winner of 2020. It is the only major economy that has grown. The pandemic, except for small outbreaks, has it under control for now. It has signed the largest trade agreement in the world with 15 Asian countries and an unprecedented investment pact with the […]
China tightens the fence on its tech giants to ensure their loyalty
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has 89 million members. If it were a country, it would be the seventeenth most populous in the world. It would go just behind the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ahead of Germany. Within Chinese society, having the CCP card, especially outside the big cities, grants a superior status, […]
