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The Dalai Lama will mark his 90th birthday on Sunday. Photo: AFP
China-India relations

China tells India to stop using Tibet to interfere in Beijing’s affairs

Chinese foreign ministry hits back at Indian minister’s stand on Dalai Lama’s succession plans.

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China-EU relations

Rare earth exports should never come between us, China’s Wang Yi tells Europe

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Crime

Chinese model lured to Myanmar with scam job rescued after sister raises alarm

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China trade

China-EU tensions rise as Beijing levies anti-dumping tariffs on European brandy

Announcement comes as Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Europe trying to resolve trade disputes, and one analyst says Beijing is ‘clearly disappointed by the EU playing hardball’.

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Tasting glasses of aged French cognac brandy are poured in France. Photo: Shutterstock
Tasting glasses of aged French cognac brandy are poured in France. Photo: Shutterstock
Brics

Rio mounts major security operation for Brics summit

About 20,000 military personnel to guard leaders, fighter jets to patrol skies.

China-EU relations

Exclusive | China tells EU it does not want to see Russia lose its war in Ukraine: sources

Wang Yi speaks of concern that US could shift whole focus in China’s direction in talks with top EU diplomat Beijing.

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US-China relations

Veteran Chinese diplomat warns Trump’s policies risk ‘shared destruction’

Communist Party diplomat Liu Jianchao pitches China’s vision for international relations while rejecting US rhetoric at World Peace Forum.

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Liu Jianchao, head of the Communist Party’s diplomatic arm, speaks during the 13th World Peace Forum in Beijing, China on Thursday. Photo: AFP
Liu Jianchao, head of the Communist Party’s diplomatic arm, speaks during the 13th World Peace Forum in Beijing, China on Thursday. Photo: AFP
China-South Korea relations

South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung pledges to improve China, Russia ties

The president says his focus is on pragmatic diplomacy that safeguards the public and national interests.

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China-EU relations

Europe has many challenges but none come from China, Wang Yi tells EU

Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas urges concrete solutions to rebalance economic ties and calls on China to end restrictions on rare earth exports.

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Diplomacy

Exclusive | Armenia looks to deepen ties with China for foreign policy beyond Russia

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan says his country’s Crossroads of Peace and China’s belt and road project are interdependent.

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Armenia’s top diplomat Ararat Mirzoyan says of relations with China: “Not only is there no impediment and any obstacle on the way of deepening our relations, but also there is openness and readiness to deepen these relations without any limitations.” Photo: Handout
Brics

Questions loom at Brics Rio summit about group’s effectiveness

Emerging economy leaders gather amid geopolitical tensions, frayed Washington alliances under Trump trade policy.

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Official Brics signage lines the avenue outside Rio’s Museum of Modern Art, the designated venue for the leaders’ summit scheduled for July 6-7.
Official Brics signage lines the avenue outside Rio’s Museum of Modern Art, the designated venue for the leaders’ summit scheduled for July 6-7.
US-China relations

China must watch out for US-led Quad as tensions fail to dent unity: observers

Cooperation on geopolitical and geostrategic interests seen to be largely unaffected, along with ‘basic strategic choice to counter China’.

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China-EU relations

Wang Yi’s Brussels visit lays bare EU-China rifts on Ukraine, trade

Chinese foreign minister, European leaders discuss agenda for planned July 24-25 summit in Beijing and Hefei.

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China-Africa relations

Is this the copper century? China moves to shore up supplies from Africa

African copper is crucial for China as the West restricts supplies, notably from Canada, analyst says.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo remains China’s biggest source of copper from Africa. One analyst says the DRC is among the most promising new copper sources. Photo: AFP
China-EU relations

The EU-China reset that never was: summits begin but divisions remain

After much talk of patching things up, a grand rapprochement has failed to materialise, with Beijing seen to be playing a ‘waiting game’.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks in Brussels on Wednesday before heading to Paris and Berlin. Photo: AFP
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks in Brussels on Wednesday before heading to Paris and Berlin. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

2 Chinese arrested in US for espionage for allegedly spying on naval base

Yuance Chen and Liren Lai are accused of photographing a naval base and seeking to recruit members of the US Navy as intelligence assets.

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China-EU relations

China offers tax refund to French cognac makers amid EU brandy probe: source

But industry insiders warn the terms may favour industry giants like Hennessy and Martell over smaller producers.

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South China Sea

Beijing sanctions South China Sea legal claim architect Francis Tolentino

Move comes one day after the former Philippine Senate leader’s term ended and bars him from entry to the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.

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Francis Tolentino. Photo: Handout
Francis Tolentino. Photo: Handout
US-China relations

Will Trump visit China for WWII victory parade? Optimism as speculation swirls

China has ‘no information’ on whether US leader will attend parade but one observer says it is ‘only appropriate’ to invite wartime ally.

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China-Africa relations

Ghana at loggerheads with China over rampant illegal gold mining

Ambassador to Ghana denies Chinese nationals are solely to blame for ‘galamsey’, branding the accusations a ‘significant injustice’.

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China-Japan relations

China partially lifts Japan seafood ban but Fukushima import block remains

Shipments resume under strict conditions but not from Fukushima and its environs as Beijing seeks closer ties with its neighbours.

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China has agreed to partially resume imports of Japanese seafood, with strict conditions, two years after first imposing a ban following the Fukushima disaster. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

Trump says ‘getting along well’ with China, downplays ‘aggressive’ acts

‘That’s the way the world works,’ Trump said when questioned by Fox News about the hacking of US telecoms system, intellectual property theft.

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US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington. Photo: AP
US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington. Photo: AP
US-China relations

Open Questions | History tells us US-China ties will survive current rupture: Neysun Mahboubi

The leading academic finds grounds for ‘moderate optimism’ after leading a group of American students on a 10-day tour of China.

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China-EU relations

After Nato chaos, ‘irrelevant’ Europe shambles towards China summit

Muddled plans and pandering to Trump left Europe looking like a much less serious global player, observers say.

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US-China relations

Why China may be keeping a close eye as Trump gets drawn into the Middle East

China may gain in long term as Iran strikes reveal US retreat from stable leadership, but ‘sudden’ move from Beijing unlikely, analyst says.

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A woman walks past a damaged building in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday following Israeli strikes on the city. Photo: AFP
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