3 d. ago China's increasingly important role in Middle East energy transition

China's increasingly important role in Middle East energy transition  news.cgtn.com

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4 d. ago Why collusion is a risk, not a solution, to China’s strategic dilemma on the Korean Peninsula

Why collusion is a risk, not a solution, to China’s strategic dilemma on the Korean Peninsula  DailyNK

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5 d. ago Japan’s top diplomat heads to Philippines with South China Sea top of mind

Japan’s top diplomat is heading to the Philippines this week for talks expected to focus on maritime tensions in the South China Sea and Tokyo’s strategic role in the region. Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi’s stop in Manila on Thursday is part of a nine-day diplomatic tour of the Middle East and Asia that began last Saturday, with stops in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Qatar and India. His talks with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro are expected to review...

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5 d. ago Vietnam Party Chief Lam Seeks Dual Role in Shift Toward China

Vietnam Party Chief Lam Seeks Dual Role in Shift Toward China-Style Power Model  Modern Diplomacy

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5 d. ago How China’s Global Security Initiative can revive multilateral denuclearization talks on the Korean Peninsula

How China’s Global Security Initiative can revive multilateral denuclearization talks on the Korean Peninsula  DailyNK

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9 d. ago China played big role in reducing opioid deaths, research suggests

China played big role in reducing opioid deaths, research suggests  The Washington Post

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1 week ago Korean peninsula arms race is heating up. How will China react in 2026?

As the new year unfolds, China finds itself grappling with strategic pressures fuelled by two US treaty allies at its doorstep – Japan and South Korea. In the second of a two-part series, Seong Hyeon Choi looks at how competing pressures in the Korean peninsula may complicate China’s security calculus. Read the first part here. In 2025, there was a major shift in China’s security environment relating to the Korean peninsula, as the North grew more open in its push for nuclear weapons and the...

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1 week ago How will China react in 2026 as Korean peninsula arms race heats up?

How will China react in 2026 as Korean peninsula arms race heats up?  South China Morning Post

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1 week ago China’s role in Korean peninsula stability tested amid nuclear submarine moves

China’s role in Korean peninsula stability tested amid nuclear submarine moves  South China Morning Post

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1 week ago As denuclearisation stalls, China will shape stability on Korean peninsula

At the recent South Korea-China summit, both sides agreed to improve dialogue, rebuild trust and promote regional peace and stability, marking a first step towards a normalisation of relations. While the Beijing meeting produced no concrete agreement for peace on the Korean peninsula, it reaffirmed the peninsula’s stability and peace as a common interest – paving the way for cooperation. The prolonged stalemate over North Korea’s nuclear programme is no longer just a diplomatic impasse. The...

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1 week ago Chinese President Xi Jinping urges Seoul to be ‘patient’ over North Korean nuclear talks

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “patience” over North Korea’s nuclear programme, the South’s president, Lee Jae Myung, said on Wednesday. Speaking during a visit to Shanghai, Lee said he had asked Xi to act as a “mediator for peace” on the Korean peninsula, including on the nuclear issue. He said all channels between the North and South had been blocked and there was “zero trust” between the two sides. “President Xi noted the efforts until now and said patience is needed,” Lee said. He...

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1 week ago Lee says he asked Beijing to play mediator role on Korean Peninsula

Lee says he asked Beijing to play mediator role on Korean Peninsula  Yonhap News Agency

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1 week ago Why Iran may not be the next Venezuela despite twin threat from protests and Trump

The recent US strike against Venezuela is likely to deepen the Iranian leadership’s concerns about further intervention from Washington but analysts do not expect the leadership will be targeted directly in the same way as Nicolas Maduro. They pointed to the higher geopolitical stakes in the Middle East compared with Latin America and the greater role played by China, Russia and other countries. Before the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, the leadership in Iran had already been...

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1 week ago In talks with China’s Xi, South Korea’s Lee seeks alternatives for peace on Korean Peninsula

In talks with China’s Xi, South Korea’s Lee seeks alternatives for peace on Korean Peninsula  Anadolu Ajansı

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1 week ago Optimistic about China’s role in global governance and AI development, Oxford scholar quotes a Confucian Proverb

Optimistic about China’s role in global governance and AI development, Oxford scholar quotes a Confucian Proverb  ecns.cn

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1 week ago China Rebukes U.S. Over Maduro Capture, Rejects ‘World Judge’ Role

China Rebukes U.S. Over Maduro Capture, Rejects ‘World Judge’ Role  Modern Diplomacy

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1 week ago ICCM highlights China's role in global research, mathematical innovation

ICCM highlights China's role in global research, mathematical innovation  news.cgtn.com

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1 week ago How Hong Kong can work with Hainan to ease entry to China’s market

Previously, I put forward the argument that Hong Kong’s relevance in China’s opening up lies less in guarding its gateway role and more in developing new forms of partnership. Since then, Hainan has set up distinct island-wide customs operations from December 18. This is a turning point – one that invites Hong Kong to think not only about how to cooperate, but how to co-design the next phase of China’s engagement with the world. Hainan’s transformation is ambitious. Around 6,600 types of goods...

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2 w. ago AI scientist Ling Haibin, father of world’s first plant ID app, leaves US for China

AI scientist Ling Haibin, the acclaimed computer scientist behind the world’s first mobile plant identification app, has left his position in the United States to take up a full-time role at Westlake University in Hangzhou, eastern China. One of Ling’s PhD research projects, which involved using computers to recognise leaves of different shapes, led to the creation of the identification app LeafSnap. The app teaches users about plant diversity, how to care for houseplants, diagnose disease and...

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2 w. ago China state visit by South Korea’s Lee will ‘push denuclearisation, end to culture ban’

President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea will seek Beijing’s support on denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and press to lift an unofficial cultural content ban when he travels to China for a state visit next week, according to Seoul. Lee’s four-day trip from Sunday will make him the first sitting South Korean president to visit China since 2019. Lee will first travel to Beijing, where he is due to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday afternoon, their second summit in two months. They...

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