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Biden has had a strained relationship with the Saudis.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been granted immunity to travel to China, less than 24 hours before he was expected to arrive in the country for a state visit from Chinese President Xi Jinping, reports said. The decision was reportedly made by a US judge just as Salman was about to arrive in…
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Can the leader of China deliver?
China’s President Xi Jinping has said the country’s political system is ” Chinese-style democracy”. This comes after he met US Vice President Joe Biden during the latter’s two-day visit to China. In a statement after his meeting with Biden, Xi described China’s governance system as “Chinese-style democracy”. The meeting was the first between the two…
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Chaos will be created before the top meeting.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the country had “protected the people’s health and safety to the greatest extent possible” and “made tremendous, encouraging achievements” in both epidemic and social development. He said this during the opening of the Communist Party’s five-yearlyleadership reshuffle on Sunday. China has reported over 20 lakh COVID-19 cases and over…
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Biden pledges the US will work with Asian nations.
US President Joe Biden has said that he has spent “more time with China’s President Xi Jinping than any other world leader”. “I think it’s more, how can we find ways to communicate about those issues where we have deep fundamental differences of perspective or concerns, but we need to be having continued and ongoing…
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There are three reasons why China may become more assertive.
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet face-to-face for the first time during the G20 summit in China. The last time the US president shook hands with the leader of China was more than three years ago. Biden has said his administration will be less flexible or maneuverable on China.
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Beijing is refusing to change course even as Anger at the policy is rising.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been named the General Secretary of China’s Communist Party for the next five years at a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body scheduled to be held on Wednesday. Xi has been in this role for the past five years. He has been the Chairman of the Central Committee of…
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China is now led by ‘action men’, what does that mean for Taiwan?
Four of the top six officers of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) have reached the normal retirement age of 68 and are being replaced as President Xi Jinping heads into his third term, according to US’ Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs. The appointment of General He Weidong as one of two CMC…