Foreign Policy
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BEIJING: China on Friday (Apr 4) announced a slew of additional tariffs and restrictions against US goods as a countermeasure to sweeping tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump. The commerce ministry said it would impose additional tariffs of 34 per cent on all US goods from Apr 10. Agriculture trade took another hit as Chinese…
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President Donald Trump on Friday said “bad, bad things will happen to Iran” if the Middle Eastern country continues down the path to developing nuclear weapons. Trump addressed Iran while taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office after swearing in Alina Habba as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. “Iran is very high on my list of…
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The United States needs to take control of Greenland for international security, President Donald Trump said in remarks at the Oval Office Friday as Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha, were visiting the island nation. “It’s not a question of do you think we can do without it,” Trump told reporters Friday, in…
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Sir Keir Starmer has pledged his “unwavering support” for Ukraine, adding that “we are at a turning point” in the war, ahead of a crucial meeting with world leaders today. The prime minister welcomed Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Downing Street on Saturday, where they signed a new loan deal for Ukraine following the Ukrainian president’s disastrous meeting with Donald…
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President Donald Trump on Thursday (Feb 13) offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade, rekindling a bond that defies the new US administration’s punitive approach to much of the world. Modi, only the fourth world leader to visit the White House since…
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Donald Trump says he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he returned to the White House on 20 January. The US president made the comments in an interview aired on Fox News tonight. “Yeah… I have talked to him and I have talked to his people, too,” Mr Trump said when asked if…
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The top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) vowed on Saturday to bolster war response posture to cope with any security situation during his visit to the Ministry of National Defence marking Day of Army Founding, state media said on Sunday. In his speech commemorating the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Beijing on Wednesday. Xi said China and Pakistan enjoy ironclad friendship and are all-weather strategic cooperative partners. In recent years, the two countries have provided firm political support for each other, maintained close high-level exchanges, and advanced the construction of the China-Pakistan…
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One week in, the Trump administration is broadening its assault on the functions of government and shifting control of the federal purse strings further away from members of Congress. President Donald Trump’s budget office Monday ordered a total freeze on “all federal financial assistance” that could be targeted under his previous executive orders pausing funding…
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A REFLECTION OF THE TRUTH A Message to Donald Trump Adham Sharqawi(Al-Watan Newspaper, Qatar) Dear Mr. Donald Trump, Greetings, I swear by God that I was hoping you would win. Even my wife congratulated me on your victory, saying: “Your friend has won!” Of course, I would have voted for you, not out of love…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim in Beijing on Thursday, calling on the two sides to take the opportunity of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties to promote and enrich the China-Malaysia community with a shared future. Noting that China and Malaysia are good neighbors, good friends and good…
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With United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Lammy set to make an official visit to China on Friday and Saturday, Beijing has expressed its hope to work together with London on building trust and holding dialogues on cooperation. The trip, announced by China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday, marks the first visit to China by a member…
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Life changed after July 4, when a new government was elected in the United Kingdom. Later that month, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, followed in August with a call between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chinese President Xi Jinping, which in turn was closely followed by Chancellor…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on Tuesday exchanged congratulatory messages on the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries. In his message, Xi noted that over the past 60 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China-Zambia ties have withstood the test of changes in the international landscape, and…
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Ukraine’s parliament has started voting on major ministerial dismissals announced yesterday. The parliament failed to sack the head of the state property fund, Vitaliy Koval, in the first vote, lawmakers said. It comes as the country’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, resigned earlier this morning – the highest-profile casualty so far of a major government reshuffle…
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White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will meet with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in China next week to discuss issues ranging from Taiwan to US-China military talks and the US fentanyl crisis, a senior US administration official said on Friday (Aug 23). In the Aug 27 to 29 talks in Beijing the two will…
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