Tag: China

China’s top diplomat says hopes US, Iran reach compromise

(AFP/Al Arabiya) China’s top diplomat reiterated calls for parties involved in a fragile Middle East ceasefire to respect the truce, expressing hope that the...

China–India rapprochement is tactical, not strategic

(Chietigj Bajpaee - East Asia Forum) China–India relations have improved since the October 2024 border agreement, with resumed leadership exchanges, restored connectivity and incremental...

Iran Is Aiming To Use Chinese Technology To Permanently Throttle Internet Access

(Kian Sharifi - RFE/RL) A senior Iranian official has revealed that Tehran has imported advanced Chinese technology in a bid to permanently cut off...

Five EU countries call for tougher trade weapons to tackle China

(Giorgio Leali - Politico) A France-led group of five EU countries is calling on Brussels to make a broader use of tariffs and other...

Selective Cooperation, Enduring Rivalry: Reading the Trump-Xi Summit

(Uday Nitin Patil - Observer Research Foundation) Amid the continuing conflict in the Middle East, global attention briefly shifted towards President Donald Trump’s visit...

Supply, Strategy, and Statecraft: India’s China Policy in an Era of Economic Rebalancing

(Soumya Bhowmick - Observer Research Foundation) India’s China policy is best understood not as a choice between engagement and confrontation, but as an effort...

A New Supercarrier Emerges. Tracking China’s Fourth Aircraft Carrier

(Matthew P. Funaiole, Brian Hart, Aidan Powers-Riggs, and Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. - Center for Strategic & International Studies) At the Dalian Shipyard in...

Trump–Xi summit spells uneasy news for Japan

(Hitoshi Tanaka - East Asia Forum) The Trump–Xi summit in Beijing on 14–15 May 2026 was a tactical detente driven by mutual domestic pressures...

China’s influence in Africa is no longer just economic

(Isel van Zyl - Lowy The Interpreter) When Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te finally arrived in Eswatini earlier this month, the visit resembled a covert...

Xi and Putin pledge closer cooperation on AI, cyberspace and satellite systems

(Daryna Antoniuk - The Record) Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin used a summit in Beijing on Wednesday to deepen their...

China and Russia’s strategic duo endures – but its limits are clear

(Yu Jie - Chatham House) In the past six months, Beijing has emerged as a diplomatic crossroads for all permanent members of the UN...

Japan’s quiet test of China diplomacy

(Jing Ge - Lowy The Interpreter) On 15 May, Hitoshi Kikawada, Japan’s minister in charge of gender equality, visited Shanghai to attend the APEC...

Has Trump’s pressure campaign on China been a success?

Al Arabiya  It was heavy on optics, but was it light on outcomes? President Donald Trump hailed his visit to China as a “historic moment.” It...

Cina e Russia mai così vicine. Ma la tela di Xi ha tanti fili

(Marzia Giglioli) Amici, e mai così vicini tra loro, Xi Jinping e Putin. Pechino e Mosca tornano a mostrarsi uniti sulla scena globale con un'abile...

Cina: dopo Trump arriva Putin. Pechino è la pietra angolare

(Marzia Giglioli)  Al di là di quelle che saranno le comunicazioni ufficiali, l'arrivo di Putin in Cina, a pochi giorni dalla visita di Trump a...

Putin says Russia, China ready to back each other on issues such as protecting sovereignty

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) Russia and China are ready to support each other on a wide range of issues, including national unity and protection of sovereignty,...