The Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated once again that the model of European integration, of which NATO is an important part, cannot be used to develop political and economic security order in Asia.
On March 21, the U.S. State Department imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials allegedly responsible for rights abuses, including the repression of “ethnic minority groups.”
As the world is hoping for a rapid end to the Russia-Ukraine hostilities and the restoration of peace in Europe, the events should also give the world pause to reflect on the conditions that led up to this military conflict.
Ukraine’s crisis has transformed geopolitics into a completely new world order. It has put many countries into more confusion to decide to side with whom.
Over two years after India decided to quit negotiation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the mega regional trade deal's door is still open to India, a senior Japanese official said recently.
During the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Antalya, Turkey, which took place from March 11 to March 13, 2022, the Kyrgyz Republic’s Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev told Helga Maria Schmid, the secretary-general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), that his country would be happy to host Russian-Ukrainian talks and serve as the “mediator for re-establishment of peace and mutual understanding” between the two countries.
The flight of several million Ukrainians out of Ukraine to Poland and other parts of Europe has created a new immigration crisis for Europe, similar to what had occurred earlier as a result of the U.S. wars in Syria and Iraq.
“Tell me how this ends?” is one of those things that people say in films — and sometimes also in real life. It is the crucial question about the war in Ukraine — but one that is sometimes obscured by the sheer drama and horror of day-to-day events.
CHINA is encouraging European countries to establish an indivisible, sustainable, effective and balanced security mechanism for different diplomatic occasions in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis.
Monday's meeting in Rome between senior Chinese and US officials was constructive despite their tense ties, and it helped overcome doubts and avoid miscalculations and was important in order to maintain global cooperation in tackling hot spot issues, observers said.
China’s state media criticized the United States as “arrogant” after Washington called on Beijing to help in Ukraine during a meeting between the two countries’ diplomats in Rome on Monday.
Russia is now strengthening its accusations against the US of developing biological weapons in Ukraine with documents and evidence it had detained amid its military operations in its neighboring country, and the US keeps claiming that Russia's accusations are "disinformation" even if statements from different officials of the Biden administration are contradictory, and this has caused rising international concerns over US biolabs worldwide.
China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, will meet with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday in Rome to exchange views on China-US relations and international and regional issues of common interest.
Monday’s meeting in Rome between senior Chinese and US officials was constructive despite their tense ties, and it helped overcome doubts and avoid miscalculations and was important in order to maintain global cooperation in tackling hot spot issues, observers said.
The Biden administration made a carefully orchestrated gamble this week, issuing a series of public and private threats to Beijing that it will face consequences if it supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In what Chinese industry insiders compared to as a "fireside chats," China's top financial affairs watchdog pledged to bolster steady economic growth and capital markets in a meeting convened on Wednesday. The meeting had sent a fresh signal that the world's second-largest economy will not pull punches in shoring up its economy for the year despite the downward pressure.
Chinese stocks made a spectacular reversal across the board on Wednesday, as China's top financial oversight body breathed key threads of hope into the market, casting away the clouds over notably US-traded Chinese firms that have taken a battering from US securities regulatory roughening.
On Monday, Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 5 percent to its lowest closing level since March 2016, while the Hang Seng Technology Index sank 11 percent, the biggest one-day drop since the index went live in July 2020. In the US, the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell for a third straight session, dropping 12 percent. On Tuesday, Chinese stocks plunged.
India is reportedly planning to buy Russian oil at discounted prices and even considering the Chinese yuan as a reference currency in an India-Russia payment settlement mechanism, a move that Chinese analysts say represents the growing frustration among world economies over the US-led sanctions against Russia that have rattled global markets.
Yuri Tavrovsky, a renowned Russian Sinologist who has visited China many times and has written many reports on the Belt and Road Initiative, said that President Xi is a leader who provides inspiration and long-term goals to his people and designs the path to achieving those goals. "He plays a role recognized by all the members of the CPC and the Chinese people," Tavrovsky added.