China has praised Pakistan’s role as a mediator in the US-Iran conflict and pledged continuing support for its efforts amid signs that Washington and Tehran are moving towards a peace deal.
Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the country’s “proac…
The era when the three joint communiques set the terms of US-China relations may have “completely come to an end”, a prominent Chinese analyst has warned.
Zhu Feng, dean of Nanjing University’s School of International Studies, also said that it might be “unrealistic” to expect Beijing and Washington…
China and Serbia agreed to deepen security and economic cooperation, with the leaders of the two nations hailing the “ironclad friendship” and strategic bonds between their countries during Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s first state visit to Beijing.
In a comprehensive joint statement issued o…
France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Lithuania are urging the bloc to flex muscles as tensions with Beijing mount.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says China and Pakistan are 'iron brother' countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China last week saw the signing of some 40 documents and a joint statement on strengthening the Beijing-Moscow partnership. The visit, just days after US President Donald Trump’s Beijing trip, is more than a diplomatic coincidence. It is a vivid reminder t…
Xiaomi is betting on artificial intelligence to future-proof its sprawling hardware empire, pouring massive resources into open-source models to ensure its next generation of smartphones and electric vehicles (EVs) does not get left behind in an AI-driven market.
The Beijing-based firm’s latest AI m…
In the global shift towards carbon-neutral mobility, a striking role reversal is taking shape on the pavements of the world’s most populous cities. While geopolitical analysts focus on the high-altitude rhetoric of the Xi-Trump summit in Beijing, a more profound urban reality is unfolding at eye lev…
Hong Kong’s technology infrastructure is undergoing a major transformation as local government and businesses replace Western products with domestic alternatives, driven by closer integration with mainland China and rising geopolitical risks, according to tech experts.
US tech giants like Microsoft …
The leader of Hong Kong offered his praise and blessings to the first local astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, in a video call ahead of the launch of the Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, calling her participation a reflection of the country’s support for the city.
In response, payload specialist Lai recalled her…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday called India a natural partner and invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington, turning the page at least rhetorically on friction despite new-found US warmth towards China.
One week after joining US President Donald Trump on a state visit to Beij…
Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio has twice in recent weeks urged the country’s armed forces to defend its sovereignty, in a carefully calibrated attempt to sound more assertive on the South China Sea issue without directly challenging Beijing, according to analysts.
While Duterte-Carpio…
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is visiting China as the country seeks support for its efforts to mediate in the conflict between Iran and the United States.
The visit also coincides with the 75th anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic ties between the two countries, which are…
Chinese President Xi Jinping viewed the Thucydides Trap as the “best diagnosis” of the challenge Beijing faces with Washington when he raised the concept with US leader Donald Trump this month, signalling an awareness that their current path risked conflict, an eminent American political scientist s…
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing in a much weaker position than he did more than four years ago, when he launched his invasion of Ukraine shortly after his last visit.
US President Donald Trump left Beijing after much fanfare. However, he was criticised back at home for failing to…
When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump concluded their Beijing summit, the most consequential outcome – for China at least – may prove not material, but conceptual: the adoption of “constructive strategic stability” (CSS) as the guiding framework for managing their intensifying competition.
For Southeast …
At least 82 people have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in the central Chinese province of Shanxi.
State news agency Xinhua reported that the gas explosion happened in Qinyuan county, about 520km (320 miles) southwest of Beijing, on Friday after the mine issued a carbon monoxide alert late on …
France has committed €23 billion (US$26.7 billion) to Africa’s private sector in a bid to counter Chinese dominance and rebuild its influence on the continent.
Speaking at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi earlier this month, President Emmanuel Macron pitched the investment as a “jolt” to reset r…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s coming trip to New York and Canada is expected to lay the groundwork for President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the US and warmer ties with Ottawa.
China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that Wang would chair a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council in New Y…
The original think tank paper was published in Chinese. SCMP Plus members can read an English translation here.
A Chinese state think tank has offered a detailed road map to steer China and the US towards peaceful coexistence, as the competition between the two powers has entered a new strategic sta…
Chinese AI firms MiniMax Group and Knowledge Atlas Technology – better known as Zhipu AI – will join the Hang Seng Tech Index next month.
Their inclusion follows investor criticism that the city’s primary technology gauge has underperformed by missing out on the global artificial intelligence boom.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said following a summit with China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing last week that he was undecided on whether to approve it.
Beijing has said Xi Jinping is expected to pay a state visit to the U.S. in the fall
The presidents of the United States and Russia visited Beijing on separate trips in May to meet with President Xi Jinping. The South China Morning Post produced extensive coverage of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s summit meetings in Beijing. Here are some of the highlights of our coverage, taking…
China criticised the United States for filing criminal charges against former Cuban president Raul Castro, as the Trump administration stepped up pressure on the Communist-ruled Caribbean island.
“The United States needs to stop wielding the big stick of sanctions and judicial measures against Cuba,…
Funding for China’s artificial-intelligence-related start-ups jumped nearly threefold year on year in the first quarter, as investors poured capital into large language models (LLMs) and embodied AI amid growing optimism over the country’s technology ecosystem.
AI-related start-ups secured more than…
Beijing reaffirmed its opposition to arms sales to Taiwan after the acting secretary of the US Navy said Washington was pausing a US$14 billion weapons purchase by the self-governed island.
“China’s firm opposition to US arms sales to China’s Taiwan region is consistent, clear and unwavering,” forei…
An alleged Myanmar crime boss and members of his syndicate were put on trial this week in the latest stage of Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on cross-border scam networks.
Wei Huairen, also known as Wai San, faces charges including fraud, murder, extortion and organising illegal border crossings, Chin…
Tiberio Graziani opined that diplomacy between Moscow and Beijing should be viewed in a broader context
One day after the United States brought criminal charges against former Cuban leader Raul Castro over the 1996 shooting down of two civilian aircraft, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio portrayed Cuba as both a growing national security threat tied to China and Russia and a ca…
Former US ambassador to China Max Baucus has described the latest US-China summit as ushering in a new phase of wary “constructive stability”, with both sides focused more on preventing crises rather than building trust or meaningfully resetting their relationship.
In an interview on Wednesday, Bauc…
When Air Force One touched down in Beijing, one of the most photographed passengers was Boeing’s chief executive, Kelly Ortberg, there to close a deal. Washington had come to sell aircraft. Beijing was buying something else.
The last time this scene played out in 2017, China signed an agreement for …
China’s “most devoted fraudster” has returned to public attention after mainland media revisited his case of forging hospital payment slips to keep his wife alive.
Liao Dan, a former factory worker in Beijing with only a secondary school education, had been living on the margins of the city with his…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit this week offered China another opportunity to showcase its diplomatic weight after hosting US President Donald Trump.
But behind the display of solidarity and trust, the packed trip appeared to yield few concrete gains for Moscow – notably no deals on the cl…
All 90 Hong Kong lawmakers are set to head to Beijing for a historic “national affairs study visit” in July, attending seminars, visiting key authorities and inspecting the tech sector during their week-long trip.
The visit to the capital from July 19 to 25, which will include seminars on national s…
China dictates the pace and areas of its cooperation with Russia.
As the US and Europe push to reduce reliance on China, Beijing tightens control over supply chains.
En esta edición de Así es Asia analizamos la visita de Vladimir Putin a China, donde junto a Xi Jinping aseguró que la relación entre ambos países atraviesa “el mejor momento de su historia”, pese a las dudas sobre su cooperación energética. Además, viajamos a Taiwán, donde el presidente Lai Ching-t…
La reciente visita de Vladimir Putin a Beijing y su encuentro con Xi Jinping vuelven a situar en el centro del tablero internacional el verdadero alcance de la relación entre Rusia y China. Mientras ambos líderes aseguran que atraviesan el “mejor momento” de su relación y defienden un mundo multipol…
Beijing is increasingly seen as key to securing international stability and economic opportunities, a status which both Washington and Moscow are converging on. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent foreign policy interactions with the leaders of the United States and Russia highlight China’s rising…
After wrapping up his trip to Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested arms sales to Taiwan could be used as a bargaining chip with China
According to Junge Welt columnist Arnold Scholzel, the alliance is struggling to maintain anti-Russian sentiment in the region, and US-China negotiations are creating doubts among the political elite about the confrontation with Beijing
The presidents of the United States and Russia visited Beijing on separate trips in May to meet with President Xi Jinping. The South China Morning Post produced extensive coverage of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s summit meetings in Beijing. Here are some of the highlights of our coverage, showin…
A Pentagon delegation may visit China within weeks, paving the way for a potential Beijing trip by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
Elbridge Colby, defence undersecretary for policy, may lead the group visit, which will aim to finalise arrangements f…
Beijing has reiterated its firm opposition to any official interactions between Washington and Taiwan, following Donald Trump’s remarks that he would be open to speaking with the person “running” the island, William Lai Ching-te.
“China’s opposition to official US exchanges with China’s Taiwan regio…
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping held talks in Beijing on May 20. The two leaders signed roughly 40 documents, including a joint declaration “on the formation of a multipolar world and international relations of a new type” and a joint statement “on further strengthening comprehensive partnership and s…
China’s diplomats are on an “AI governance” offensive. At a May 5 United Nations meeting, China’s vice minister of science and technology championed China’s role in shaping U.N.-led frameworks that determine how the technology should be built and used. Just a week earlier, two top Chinese AI experts…
Our Beijing bureau chief, Keith Bradsher, describes how China’s enormous housing crash is affecting economies all over the world.
US and Taiwan leaders have not spoken since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979.
Russia and China are interested in building normal relations among all states, including between the SCO and BRICS, the Russian foreign minister said
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1. Xi and Putin’s united front – from tigers to trade: the summit takeaways
Putin’s trip to Beijing came only days after US President Dona…
The Tata-ASML MoU puts India inside the world’s most exclusive technology partnership, but Beijing still controls the inputs used to make chips.
Just days after Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, Vladimir Putin arrived in China for a summit with Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping hosts Vladimir Putin a week after Donald Trump was in Beijing.
Pocos días después de su visita a China, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump recibió duras críticas de Vladimir Putin y Xi Jinping en un comunicado conjunto durante la visita del mandatario ruso a Beijing, que califica de "hipócrita" el uso de las negociaciones con Irán para "esconder la prepa…
The Beijing summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping showed that competition between the United States and China need not become a zero-sum struggle for supremacy. Even as the two countries vie for technological leadership, complete economic decoupling is neither feasible nor desirable.
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Beijing and Moscow have ‘continuously deepened our political mutual trust and strategic coordination’ with a resilience that remains unyielding, says Chinese President
The Russian president stressed that Moscow and Beijing had carried out productive and substantial work
China and Europe on Tuesday launched their first jointly developed satellite, a space mission that will explore the precise mechanism of the Earth’s defence against solar wind.
The successful collaboration on the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) comes as Beijing and Brussels…
China and Russia issued strong warnings over the US Golden Dome missile defence system and military deployments in the region in their latest joint statement, just days after a summit between Beijing and Washington aimed at stabilising Sino-American ties.
The two countries accused the United States …
Days after US President Donald Trump’s visit framed around managing risks, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached a raft of agreements and pledged deeper cooperation as they met in Beijing.
An analyst in China captured the stark contrast between the two visits as a…
Choreography of back-to-back visits appeared deliberately mirrored but China made sure the differences were noticedDays after Donald Trump was greeted in Beijing with a military band, an honour guard and dozens of youths waving American and Chinese flags, Vladimir Putin arrived in China to an almost…
Xi Jinping welcomed Vladimir Putin to Beijing with pomp and pageantry, just days after hosting Donald Trump. But as Russia’s war in Ukraine makes Moscow increasingly dependent on China, and western leaders thaw relations with Beijing, what does the power imbalance mean for Xi and Putin’s relationshi…
The Russian and Chinese leaders agreed on bilateral cooperation during Putin's visit to China.
As the US and Europe push to reduce reliance on China, Beijing tightens control over supply chains.
Los presidentes de China, Xi Jinping, y de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, reforzaron este miércoles 20 de mayo en Beijing su alianza estratégica con una contundente declaración conjunta contra EE. UU. en materia nuclear y de seguridad, en la que hicieron un llamado urgente a reanudar las negociaciones sobre…
Los presidentes de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, y de China, Xi Jinping, se reunieron en Beijing para su encuentro número 40. Los aliados históricos debatieron sobre la crisis en Medio Oriente y se alinearon en las críticas a Washington, acordando que es necesario cesar las hostilidades para contribuir a r…
As energy cooperation tops the summit agenda, back-to-back state visits of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could pave the way for emerging “trilateral coordination” between China, Russia and the United States.
That is according to Cui Hongjian, a former diplomat and the head of European studies at B…
When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday evening for a two-day state visit, he once again returned to his “second home” at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, a royal garden that has hosted dignitaries including Richard Nixon, Boris Yeltsin and Kim Jong-un.
Diaoyutai is a fami…
While China’s oil and gas imports from Gulf nations plunged in April amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis during the US-Israeli war on Iran, shipments from Russia have provided Beijing with a partial buffer for its growing economy.
Russia’s crude shipments to China rose 11.3 per cent year on year to nea…
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese engineer Peng Pai on Wednesday, over a quarter century after a chance encounter during his first presidential visit to China, when Peng was 12 years old.
Putin, who arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a two-day visit, received Peng at the Diaoyutai State Gu…
Chinese investment in Europe hit a seven-year high of €16.8 billion (US$19.5 billion) in 2025, driven by a strong rebound in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and record greenfield completions, a new report has found.
But the annual study, published on Tuesday by Rhodium Group and the Mercator Institut…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin made little progress on long-delayed plans to to build a new gas pipeline between the two countries at a presidential summit in Beijing.
There was still no “clear timeline” and “there are still some details to be worked out”, Kremlin spokesman…
The European Union has shortlisted tungsten, rare earths and gallium for its first joint stockpile of critical minerals aimed at reducing its reliance on China, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The EU is also talking to major ports including Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the …
A noodle shop in downtown Beijing went viral on social media after billionaire Jensen Huang paid it a visit, prompting the outlet to launch a “God of War in leather jacket” set menu the next day.
On May 15, the Nvidia CEO was spotted holding a large bowl of noodles and using chopsticks to wolf down …
Cooperation between China and Russia on science and technology could help stop US isolation and allow the international science community to “return to normalcy” amid geopolitical tensions, according to experts in the US and Russia.
It could also offer the world an alternative model of scientific co…
China’s exports of rare earth permanent magnets to Japan slightly rebounded in April after slumping the previous month, but Japanese firms warn they are facing “severe” shortages as a diplomatic row between Beijing and Tokyo grinds on.
Shipments of permanent magnets from China to Japan rose by 2.5 p…
Beijing has accused Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te of “destroying cross-strait peace” shortly after he gave a speech to mark his second anniversary in power in the wake of Donald Trump’s remarks on Taiwan independence.
The State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) said on Tuesday that Lai’s…
Washington would not raise future tariffs on Chinese goods above the level stipulated in a trade truce the two countries hammered out late last year, Beijing said, a commitment arising from talks in South Korea held hours before US President Donald Trump’s arrival in the Chinese capital last week.
A…
Germany has been warned that a “China shock” to its trade economy is the biggest driver of its industrial slump, in a new report that urges Berlin to throw its weight behind stronger EU measures against Beijing.
Much soul-searching has been under way in Berlin over recent years, with the German gove…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in Beijing on the morning of May 20.
President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing for talks with President Xi Jinping, in a closely watched visit that comes just days after President Trump's high-profile trip to China.
‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,’ thinktank saysBusiness live – latest updatesGermany must stop admiring China’s success in the EU or it will sleepwalk into the kind of deindustrialisation the US experienced 25 years ago, a leading Brussel…
Beijing’s acknowledgment on Wednesday that tariffs were discussed in talks with President Trump signals it was prepared to push back if the U.S. revives duties.
China’s Xi Jinping has welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in China for high-level talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in a closely watched visit that comes just days after US President Donald Trump concluded his own trip to Beijing.
U.S. President Trump says the war would be over "very quickly"; Vance acknowledges difficulties in negotiating with a fractured Iranian leadership
The meeting will be their second contact this year
The deals were signed during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing
The venue is expected to host a Russia-China meeting involving key officials, talks between the two countries’ delegations, and Russian president's meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang
The Russian leader emphasized that the countries' foreign policy cooperation was one of the main stabilizing factors on the international stage
The head of state emphasized that Moscow-Beijing relations served as an example of a genuinely comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation
US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, at a time of rising tensions over Iran, sanctions, tariffs and Taiwan, shows how far the Hormuz crisis has travelled beyond the battlefield.
What began as a regional war is now touching energy markets, currency politics and the balance of influence betwe…
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast warned that allowing American tech firms to chase business in China could make the US the ultimate “loser”, in remarks that followed US President Donald Trump’s return from Beijing, where artificial intelligence (AI) was discussed.
“There’s a reaso…
China has rolled out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin for his 25th visit to the country, underscoring a frequency of head-of-state diplomacy that far outpaces Beijing’s engagement with Washington.
Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday night for a two-day state visit, less than a wee…
The end of the Cold War was supposed to deliver a long peace. For a while, that was working, until it wasn’t. We might now be entering another period when the breakdown of a world order leads to war.
It was no accident that President Xi Jinping cited the “Thucydides Trap” during his summit in Beijin…
Japan’s planned deployment of long-range surveillance drones on remote Pacific islands would mark a significant expansion of its ability to monitor Chinese naval activity, as Beijing’s warships operate more frequently beyond the first island chain.
The drones are to be stationed on Iwo Jima and Chic…
French investors are warming to Hong Kong again, the city’s finance chief has said, citing a “marked difference” in local perceptions compared with his last visit to Paris two years ago.
The shift is driven by Hong Kong’s strong market performance and an improved geopolitical situation, especially f…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday.
Putin’s trip to Beijing came only days after US President Donald Trump’s closely watched visit to the Chinese capital, the back-to-back summits highlighting the strong trust between Beijing and Moscow and C…
Trump was looking for a breakthrough, but not necessarily in the form of major trade deals. Trump’s mission was to insert charm and his own personality into the relationship with Xi.
Trump’s summit with Xi deferred the real Taiwan test: whether U.S. arms sales to Taipei will preserve credible support under strategic ambiguity, and how far Beijing will go to enforce its red line.
At least since the 1980s, American leaders visiting Beijing were traditionally expected to raise the Tibetan issue during bilateral meetings. Not anymore.
The United States may be accepting the reality of Chinese power.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday in a meeting meant to reaffirm ties and that takes place only days after a visit by President Donald Trump.
Back-to-back visits to Beijing by the American and Russian presidents are highlighting how China's Xi Jinping is the world leader to be reckoned with and courted.
Vladimir Putin’s arrival was announced just a day after United States President Donald Trump left Beijing.
Warning comes after Trump threatened military action against Iran and gave it 'two to three days' to strike a deal.
Xi and Putin hold talks just days after US President Donald Trump made an official visit to China.
El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, fue recibido en la pista de aterrizaje de Beijing por el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de China, Wang Yi, en lo que fue una cálida y solemne bienvenida. Oficialmente, la visita conmemora el 30.º aniversario de la Declaración Conjunta Chino-Rusa. Extraoficialmente…
La visita de Vladimir Putin a China consolida una relación estratégica cada vez más estrecha entre Moscú y Beijing. El comercio bilateral creció casi 15% en el primer trimestre de 2026, impulsado por energía, manufacturas y pagos en yuanes y rublos. Pero ahora ambos líderes miran hacia la construcci…
El presidente chino, Xi Jinping, recibió este miércoles 20 de mayo con honores en el Gran Palacio del Pueblo de Beijing a su homólogo ruso, Vladímir Putin, que llegó a China para su vigesimoquinta visita al país. La visita tiene lugar menos de una semana después del viaje realizado por el mandatario…
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump concluded his own visit to China, highlighting the growing importance of relations among the world’s major powers.
As Sergey Ryabkov stressed, the very idea of multilateral arms control talks among nuclear powers is being thwarted by Washington's desire to make China's participation mandatory
Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov also confirmed that Moscow and Beijing are in dialogue on the topic of artificial intelligence
The Russian president's working schedule in China is quite extensive
A prominent American business group in China has called for expanded energy trade between the world’s two largest economies – a move first floated by US President Donald Trump during his state visit to Beijing last week. Analysts, however, warn that uncompetitive pricing could limit Chinese demand.
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A recent meeting between Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su signals a potential loosening of US chip export policies, which could reopen high-end semiconductor sales, including artificial intelligence chips, to select Chinese firms, according to analysts.
Dur…
China and the United States will hold a formal dialogue on improving governance of artificial intelligence (AI), as the two countries seek to manage the risks posed by the rapidly evolving technology.
During US President Donald Trump’s state visit to China last week, he and his Chinese counterpart X…
The Iranian embassy in Beijing has released an animated rap video featuring internet memes and pop culture to mock US leaders and celebrate Iran’s warm ties with China.
The two-minute video What is the East? was published on Monday afternoon and had drawn over 370,000 views by noon the next day.
It …
At last week’s summit in Beijing, the presidents of China and the United States pledged to steer towards a stable and constructive relationship. The two sides announced new joint trade and investment councils. This combination of high-level commitment and institutional progress has stirred hopes tha…
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday night for a visit aimed at deepening the two sides’ comprehensive partnership, four days after the Chinese capital hosted US President Donald Trump.
This is the Russian leader’s 25th visit to China.
Putin was given a formal red-carpet re…
From May 14 to 15, U.S. President Donald Trump held a summit in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In addition to pageantry, the summit featured discussions about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, Taiwan, and bilateral trade. Both Washington and Beijing emphasized a relationship based on “construc…
Rising volume of components imported from China prompts warning of cannibalisation of European industriesEurope is facing a fresh China shock that threatens to cannibalise local factories, leading to job losses and de facto colonisation of industry by Beijing, trade analysts and representatives have…
Russian leader says relations between two countries have reached ‘unprecedented level’ on eve of 25th visit to ChinaVladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for a state visit, four days after Donald Trump left China.The Russian leader’s visit to China – his 25th, according to Chinese state media – refl…
With the upheaval in the Persian Gulf disrupting oil and gas supplies, Russia is looking to deepen its energy ties to China.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Pocos días después de la visita del presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, el Gobierno chino recibe a un nuevo invitado: el mandatario ruso, Vladimir Putin, aliado histórico de Beijing. El Kremlin asegura que la reunión llega en un momento crucial y tienen expectativas muy altas. Putin aseguró que…
Underpinning the two nuclear powers’ relations is China’s economic heft complemented by Russia’s vast oil production, likely at the forefront of talks this week
When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Beijing this week, just days after US President Donald Trump departed, following his summit with President Xi Jinping, the choreography will not be merely diplomatic. It will be show of “civilisational theatre”.
For years, analysts framed China as a p…
Argentina is on the verge of settling its debt with China’s central bank, winding down a currency lifeline that kept the country afloat during years of financial turmoil and now sits at the centre of a geopolitical tug of war between Washington and Beijing.
Government officials confirmed to Argentin…
China’s military mouthpiece has issued a rare warning that personnel may be insufficiently trained to operate new weapons, including unmanned systems, despite Beijing’s rapid advances in hardware.
Some military units showed a low level of integration between personnel and equipment, Monday’s PLA Dai…
Hong Kong’s leader will travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan early next month to explore and seize new business opportunities, making Central Asia his latest area of focus and with the largest delegation travelling with him to date.
After several years of promoting the city in the Middle East and Sou…
Tokyo fears being sidelined again as Washington and Beijing recalibrate their relationship. Call it the “Trump Shock.”
Japan and South Korea are seeking to further institutionalize their security, energy, and strategic cooperation – especially after Trump’s trip to Beijing.
A look back at Beijing’s choices for where to stage diplomatic scenes with U.S. presidents – and the changing political narratives.
Historian Rana Mitter on the new balance of power between Washington and Beijing.
President’s remarks about Taiwan arms deals being a ‘negotiating chip’ with Beijing have been seized on by Chinese state mediaIt has been an unsettling few days for Taiwan’s government. When Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, many feared the unpredictable US leader could upend Washi…
Las ejecuciones en China, Irán y Arabia Saudita y otros países dispararon la cifra de condenados a pena de muerte, marcando una cifra récord en 2025 y la más alta desde 1981. En su último informe, Amnistía Internacional aseguró que registró al menos 2.707 ejecuciones en 17 países, representando un a…
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China is stepping up economic engagement with Russia by hosting the 10th edition of a major bilateral expo ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expected trip to Beijing this week – just days after his American counterpart, Donald Trump, visited there last week.
The back-to-back visits to the …
Donald Trump’s comment that he is “not looking to have somebody go independent” has sparked debate in Taiwan over whether it undermines the ruling party’s pro-independence platform.
Trump made the remark after last week’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, where Taiwan emerged as one …
US President Donald Trump might now “more clearly” understand that the US “cannot defeat China” but that it must instead engage a stronger Beijing, according to a prominent Chinese political scientist.
Zheng Yongnian, an adviser to the Chinese government, also noted that Beijing had taken a “central…
President Trump’s open willingness to hold up a $14 billion Taiwan arms package is a win for Beijing. Now China could be weighing how to keep the weapons on ice for as long as it can.