34 h. ago Diplomatic tour de force: China's Xi shows he's 'totally in charge'

Diplomatic tour de force: China's Xi shows he's 'totally in charge'  Reuters

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4 d. ago Kim Jong Un joins Putin, Xi in China for show of force to rival Trump

Kim Jong Un joins Putin, Xi in China for show of force to rival Trump  NBC News

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4 d. ago Kim Jong Un joins Putin and Xi in China for show of force to rival Trump

Kim Jong Un joins Putin and Xi in China for show of force to rival Trump  NBC News

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4 d. ago China piles pressure on Pakistan: How Beijing is forcing Islamabad to meet three tough demands before CPEC...

China piles pressure on Pakistan: How Beijing is forcing Islamabad to meet three tough demands before CPEC...  Moneycontrol

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4 d. ago Putin hails friendship with China as Kim Jong Un joins show of force

Putin hails friendship with China as Kim Jong Un joins show of force  NBC News

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6 d. ago Indonesia protests prompt Prabowo to cancel China trip, Beijing security warning

The Chinese embassy in Jakarta warned Chinese citizens in Indonesia to avoid crowds on the weekend as an outbreak of protests forced the Indonesian president to cancel his trip to China. “[Citizens and agencies should] improve security precautions, closely monitor local developments, minimise non-essential outings, steer clear of protest crowds and areas, and avoid visiting crowded locations,” the embassy said in a social media post on Saturday. Also on Saturday, Indonesian State Secretary...

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7 d. ago India Being Forced To Normalise Ties With China Largely On Beijing's Terms: Cong

India Being Forced To Normalise Ties With China Largely On Beijing's Terms: Cong  MenaFN

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8 d. ago Trump tariffs are increasingly forcing countries to pick sides between the US and China

Trump tariffs are increasingly forcing countries to pick sides between the US and China  Yahoo Finance

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9 d. ago Russian and Chinese submarines join forces in Pacific patrol first

Russian and Chinese submarines have conducted their first joint patrol in the Pacific, the latest in a series of efforts to expand military cooperation between the two countries. The Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet said on Wednesday that the patrol began in early August after five days of joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan – also known as the East Sea – from August 1. “The diesel-electric submarine Volkhov of the Pacific Fleet and a submarine of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy took...

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1 week ago Seoul reluctant on Trump’s push for more flexible US Forces Korea

South Korea’s new president has signalled reluctance to give ground to US President Donald Trump on the role of US forces in Korea in relation to Taiwan, but experts say he may be continually pushed to take a clearer stance in the future. On Sunday, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung told reporters on his flight to Washington for an inaugural summit with Trump that it was difficult to agree to an American demand for strategic flexibility of US Forces Korea (USFK). Lee, who became president in...

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1 week ago Seoul balks at Taiwan role for US troops stationed in South Korea

Seoul may be reluctant to support the White House’s call for South Korea-based US troops to shift their focus from the North to a Taiwan conflict but it might be forced to get behind the strategy, according to analysts. On his way to meet his US counterpart in Washington on Sunday, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said it would be difficult to agree to an American demand for US Forces Korea (USFK) to have “strategic flexibility”. “This is not an issue we can easily agree with,” said Lee, who...

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1 week ago London–Beijing Flight Forced into Siberia As Air China Jet Faces engine issue, What Travellers Need To Know

London–Beijing Flight Forced into Siberia As Air China Jet Faces engine issue, What Travellers Need To Know  Travel And Tour World

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1 week ago Typhoon Kajiki forces mass evacuation in Vietnam, shuts China’s Sanya

Typhoon Kajiki forces mass evacuation in Vietnam, shuts China’s Sanya  CNN

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2 w. ago US show of force could move Venezuela closer to China: analysts

While the deployment of US warships near the coast of Venezuela is intended to heap pressure on the government and limit its already strained capacity for oil shipments, the action would probably serve to bolster China’s extensive economic ties with the South American country, analysts said. Three destroyers and an amphibious squadron with about 4,000 US Marines were dispatched to the Caribbean Sea close to Venezuelan waters, the White House said this week, in an act they said was intended to...

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2 w. ago US warships are circling Venezuela – what does this mean for the oil trade?

As US destroyers closed in on the coast of Venezuela on Thursday – a stark show of military force President Donald Trump said was intended to combat drug cartels – global attention has turned to the South American country, with China voicing opposition to “the interference of external forces in Venezuela’s internal affairs, under any pretext”. Here, the Post examines how the situation has developed and Venezuela’s role in the international oil trade – a prominence that has given the conflict...

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2 w. ago China Puts On Show of Force in Disputed Waters Amid High Tensions

China Puts On Show of Force in Disputed Waters Amid High Tensions  Newsweek

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2 w. ago Apple joins RedNote, plane software mastermind leaves US for China: 7 highlights

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. How the Philippines forced China to adjust historic mission to moon’s far side Chinese space engineers made small but deliberate changes to last year’s historic sample retrieval mission to the far side of the moon to avoid political...

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2 w. ago China’s New ‘Stealth Air Force’ Is Built for a War Against America

China’s New ‘Stealth Air Force’ Is Built for a War Against America  National Security Journal

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2 w. ago How the Philippines forced China to adjust historic mission to moon’s far side

Chinese space engineers made small but deliberate changes to last year’s historic sample retrieval mission to the far side of the moon to avoid political friction in the South China Sea, according to a new paper. The Chang’e-6 spacecraft left the Wenchang spaceport on Hainan Island on board a Long March-5 rocket in May 2024, returning to Earth the following month with the world’s first lunar samples from the moon’s hidden side. According to the paper published last month by China’s Journal of...

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2 w. ago Tencent’s game studio eyes global growth with Honour of Kings spin

Tencent Holdings, the world’s largest video gaming company by revenue, is intensifying its international expansion as its flagship studio reports a record number of overseas players and prepares to launch a new title based on its flagship game, Honour of Kings. TiMi Studio Group – developer of Honour of Kings, Call of Duty: Mobile, and Delta Force – has reached 100 million monthly active users outside mainland China, a milestone that took the 17-year-old studio by surprise, according to Huang...

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