by Editorial Staff William Lai Ching-te was elected the new president of Taiwan, candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), with which China has interrupted every channel of dialogue for at least eight years, obtained 40% of the votes. The gap with political opponents was important: Hou of the Kuomintang stopped at [...]
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has replaced two generals who commanded the country's missile forces, thus starting the most important purge within the army's top ranks. General Li Yuchao, commander of the People's Liberation Army's Rocket Force, and his deputy, General Liu Guangbin, had already disappeared from circulation several [...]
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At the end of the meetings in Washington, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from Villa Firenze, residence of the Italian ambassador to the USA, Mariangela Zappia, explains Italy's new international posture: "I was anticipated by false propaganda, which had recounted the hypothesis of a government as a disaster in the stability of international relations, economic stability and institutions. But […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) There are many reasons for friction between the United States and China: Taiwan, free trade, the microchip industry, human rights, support for Russia and the Belt & Road Initiative. Just to mention the most important, leaving aside the question of the alleged spy balloons and the military training base in Cuba. The initiatives are weak [...]
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Yesterday Blinken before meeting President Xi Jinping, a meeting not entirely taken for granted and never confirmed since Blinken landed in Beijing, spent several hours with the highest representative of Chinese foreign policy Wang Yi. The confrontation with Wang Yi was very tough when the Chinese high representative, referring to the States [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A multipolar world, this is how Xi Jinping's China understands it, which wants to have an ever greater impact on international disputes to protect its strategic and economic interests. Xi recently proposed 12 points for peace between Russia and Ukraine and concretely favored the once unthinkable rapprochement between Iran [...]
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The tension between the US and the Chinese government remains high, which has erupted following the visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi, president of the United States House of Representatives who, speaking to Parliament, declared "Our determination for democracy is iron". To Pelosi's statement is added that of President Tsai who warns [...]
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Two hours and seventeen minutes, as long as the phone call between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping lasted, it is the fifth time that the two leaders have heard each other over the phone on the hottest issues in the world. Next time, they vowed, they will meet in person. Apparently, reading the press releases launched at the end of the phone call, [...]
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(by Paolo Giordani) Almost 100 days after the beginning of what Moscow calls a "special military operation" (the post-Soviet version of the British understatement almost always has ironic implications), the hypothesis of a ceasefire in Ukraine and the start of "serious" negotiations still appears remote, for various reasons. The first and most evident is that not only [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, caused by the Russian invasion with the aggression towards a sovereign and independent state, China has tried in every way to stay out of the Russian-Ukrainian war struggle. This is demonstrated by the abstention of the Chinese delegation from adopting a couple of draft resolutions (S / 2022/155 and S / RES / 2623/2022) discussed in [...]
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Joe Biden at the UN presents the new face of America that relies on a softer approach to global tensions. "A new era of relentless diplomacy" and "peace" in the world after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and ensures that America does not seek "a new cold war" with China, even if the warning remains [...]
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization - SCO - should mark the beginning of an alternative multilateralism that could unite the efforts of China and Russia, especially today, in the controversial Afghan landscape. The speeches at the Dushanbe summit by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping seem to point in this direction. The Afghan crisis is creating a convergence of interests [...]
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The World Health Organization, Reuters reports, has just declared that the coronavirus epidemic in China now constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general, announced the decision after a meeting of his emergency committee, an independent group of experts, after evidence that the virus has [...]
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Trump does not mince words and speaks of a phenomenal understanding: "Buy new tractors, a great season for business is coming". The Chinese will buy $ 197 billion worth of American goods over the next two years and the US pledges to buy $ 156 billion worth of Chinese goods. The dead line of 19 [...]
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Didl Tang Beijing in The Times told of Xi Jinping's dream: "China as a world leader by 2050". When war broke out in Yemen in 2015, a Chinese frigate docked at the port of Aden and, under armed escort, evacuated hundreds of Chinese citizens to Djibouti. The success of the military operation has shown the world of [...]
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Protests continue in Hong Kong. According to news agencies in the city, thousands of Chinese military police men marched through a stadium in Shenzen, increasing fear of military intervention. Meanwhile, the situation at the international airport has returned to normal thanks to a temporary injunction [...]
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The United States will not impose new tariffs on goods imported from China, Donald Trump said at the G20 in Osaka, on the sidelines of the meeting with Xi Jinping. “For the foreseeable future we will not impose any more tariffs on China. We will work together with China. They will negotiate and start spending money in the US, ”the American tycoon told reporters. [...]
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On the occasion of the summit between the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, Paris and Beijing signed a series of agreements covering various sectors, such as aerospace, energy and agri-food. In total there are 14 agreements signed before the two presidents, for a total value of several tens of billions of euros. [...]
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Xi Jinping landed on the Cote d'Azur and in Nice Macron as soon as he met the Chinese president said: "I am happy to welcome you to France". The agenda is very dense with a bilateral meeting at the Elysée, signing of commercial agreements and then a state dinner. Tomorrow the meeting at the Elysée with Chancellor Angela Merkel and the President of the Commission [...]
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The official visit of the President of China, Xi Jinping, is scheduled for 21 March. The Chinese president will stay until 23 March and will continue his tour of Europe until 26 March. During his visit to Italy, Xi will meet the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for [...]
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According to "Reuters", US President Donald Trump, commenting on the talks opened last Wednesday with China aimed at bridging the deep divergences over China's intellectual property and technology transfer practices and at easing a month-long tariff war , expressed optimism but added that there [...]
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Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed Russian colleague Vladimir Putin today with the utmost honors for a state visit to Beijing that will last three days. Putin, meeting his Chinese counterpart, stressed how cooperation between Russia and China has achieved unprecedented results by announcing that stable and lasting cooperation [...]
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The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, unanimously re-elected last Saturday at the summit of the People's Republic of China by the National People's Assembly, after the electoral triumph, sent a congratulatory message to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. According to the Xinhua news agency, Xi expressed confidence in the message that Russia will be able to "create [...]
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Dozens of European politicians have signed a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping asking for the immediate and unconditional release of Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen arrested last month on a high-speed train bound for Beijing, according to the Nova agency. On Tuesday, the British newspaper "The Guardian" revealed that Gui, the [...]
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Song Tao, the special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, met Ri Su-yong today in Pyongyang, one of the deputy presidents of the Workers' Party, a former foreign minister and currently the most senior official in Korea's foreign policy. of the North. According to what was reported by the official agency Kcna, the two talked about the peninsula [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the administration of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is observing with the utmost attention the visit to Pyongyang of the special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, scheduled for today. The visit will provide an indication of the real effectiveness of Trump's pressure on Beijing, so that Korea's traditional ally of [...]
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Donald Trump, returning to the White House, taking stock of his tour in Asia, claims the successes obtained during his trip. "America is optimistic about the future and is ready to compete and defend its values and its security." Trump said he explained to foreign leaders he met during his [...]
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The Chinese news agency Xinhua has announced that Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a special envoy to North Korea next Friday, amid regional tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. The envoy, Song Tao, is headed to North Korea - Xinhua explained - to visit the country and discuss [...]
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American President Donald Trump, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, will be engaged on a state visit to China from 8 to 10 November. This was announced by the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Lu Kang, who, in a statement said: "The two heads of state will have a profound exchange of views on major global issues [...]
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The new Chinese president Xi Jinping was placed by the XNUMXth Chinese Congress on the same level as Mao Zedong. There will be a new Politburo to lead the country over the next five years. The most interesting fact is that a successor to Xi Jinping has not been named and this will give free rein to the current leader [...]
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wished Chinese President Xi Jinping "great success" after he was renamed secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. In the note released by the KCNA news agency, Kim expressed "sincere congratulations" on his second term at the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the message Kim [...]
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