Foreign affairs
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Norway has officially closed its embassy in Uganda, marking the end of 19 years of diplomatic presence in the east African country. The embassy posted on its official handle on X, formerly Twitter, Friday, saying that the country’s flag had been formerly lowered. “It is with mixed emotions as we lower the Norwegian flag for…
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China will not join the financial sanctions against Russia, the country’s banking and insurance regulator said. China does not support financial sanctions, especially unilateral sanctions, Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said at a press conference in Beijing, noting that unilateral sanctions cannot effectively address the problems and they lack…
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resident Joe Biden has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a White House visit this summer. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden extended the invitation during a phone call on Monday with Zelenskyy, who has publicly raised concerns about the U.S. president’s plan to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and about a nearly…
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Even as European nations ponder shutting Huawei out of 5G network rollouts over concerns about data security, the trial of an ex-Huawei employee and a former Polish secret services agent accused of spying for China has opened in Warsaw. According to Polish prosecutors, former Huawei executive Wang Weijing, 39, spent over seven years spying for…
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Hong Kong says it has closed its representative office in Taiwan. Further, officials said the closing of the Hong Kong Economic, Trade, and Cultural Office was caused by Taiwan’s “gross” interference in Hong Kong’s internal affairs, claiming it sought to assist “violent” protesters. Tension have increased between Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed government and democratically-ruled Taiwan since…
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in said former President Donald Trump “failed” in his dealings with North Korea because he “beat around the bush” during negotiations, a stunningly undiplomatic public assessment of a fellow world leader delivered during a New York Times interview published Wednesday. Moon said the denuclearization of North Korea is a “matter of survival” for South Korea, and stressed that…
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Key figure in Donald Trump’s impeachment saga was aware aware of Burisma corruption. Findings have confirmed that the Democrats’ star witnesses in their sham impeachment of President Trump – former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch – seemed to have been shading the truth. Are you at all surprised? We just received 210 pages of records…
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China has banned U.S. warships and military aircraft from making stops in Hong Kong after Washington passed legislation supporting the territory’s pro-democracy protesters. “In response to the unreasonable behaviors of the U.S. side, the Chinese government decides to suspend the review of requests by U.S. military ships and aircraft to visit Hong Kong as of…
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