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US President-Elect Trump Holds Phone Talks with Chinese Leader Xi

This is Beirut, 17/01 17:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping held phone talks Friday with US president-elect Donald Trump, Chinese state media reported. CCTV said the phone call happened "on the evening of January 17", without providing any immediate further details. Earlier on Friday, China announced Xi would send Vice President Han Zheng to attend Trump's inauguration next ...

Trump as Buddha: Chinese Statues Spark Sensation

This is Beirut, 14/01 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Serenity and calm are not typically the first words that come to mind when describing Donald Trump. Yet, in a Chinese artisan's workshop, the former U.S. president sits cross-legged in a divine meditation pose. This porcelain version of the Republican billionaire, transformed into a Buddha, is the work of designer and sculptor Hong Jinshi. These ...

Supreme Court Looks Poised to Uphold TikTok Ban

This is Beirut, 10/01 22:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The US Supreme Court appeared likely on Friday to uphold a law that would force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down. A majority of the conservative and liberal justices on the nine-member bench appeared skeptical of arguments by a lawyer for TikTok that forcing a sale was a ...

Quake in China's Tibet Kills 126 With Tremors Felt in Nepal, India

This is Beirut, 07/01 16:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A devastating earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people and destroyed "many buildings" on Tuesday, state media reported, with tremors also felt in neighboring Nepal's capital Kathmandu and parts of India. Videos published by China's state broadcaster CCTV showed houses destroyed with walls torn ...

China Rejects U.S. Cyberattack Allegations on US Treasury, Denouncing "False Pretexts"

This is Beirut, 2024-12-31 11:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Beijing on Tuesday hit back at accusations that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach at the US Treasury Department, calling the claims "groundless". The Treasury said the attack resulted in access to some of its workstations, according to a letter to Congress seen by AFP. According to the Treasury, the incident ...

Xi Jinping Calls for "World Peace" in His New Year's Message to Vladimir Putin

This is Beirut, 2024-12-31 10:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to promote "world peace" in a New Year's message to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, state media reported on Tuesday. "No matter how the international situation changes, China will remain steadfast in further comprehensively deepening reform... and promoting world peace and development," Xi said, ...

China, Iran FMs Agree Mideast ‘Not a Battleground for Big Powers'

This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The top diplomats of China and Iran agreed Saturday that the Middle East is "not a battleground for the big powers" and should not be an arena of geopolitical competition between countries outside the region. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi agreed that "the international community should respect the ...

Lithuania Expels Three Chinese Diplomats Amid Tensions Over Taiwan

This is Beirut, 2024-11-29 17:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Lithuania announced on Friday that it was expelling three staff members of the Chinese embassy, as relations between the Baltic nation and Beijing deteriorate over Lithuania’s support for Taiwan and the suspected involvement of a Chinese ship in the damage to undersea telecommunications cables. Earlier this month, two Baltic Sea ...

Record Tariffs: Trump Targets China, Canada, and Mexico

This is Beirut, 2024-11-26 12:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he intends to impose sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, prompting a swift warning from Beijing that "no one will win a trade war." In a series of posts to his Truth Social account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with duties on all goods ...

US Deployments Planned Near Taiwan

This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The United States is drawing up contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of an emergency over Taiwan, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. They will be incorporated in a first joint operation plan to be formulated in December, Kyodo reported late Sunday, citing sources familiar with Japan-US relations. A US ...

The Growing Risk of Nuclear Conflict and the Shadow of World War III

Salam Zaatari, 2024-11-21 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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During his US presidential campaigns, Donald Trump frequently expressed concerns about the potential for World War III, often blaming rising global tensions on the foreign policy decisions of the Biden administration. He specifically criticized actions he views as provocative or escalatory, such as the administration's approval of sending ...

China Urges ‘Calm’ After Putin Decree on Broader Use of Nuclear Weapons

This is Beirut, 2024-11-20 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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China on Wednesday urged "calm" and "restraint" after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear threat and Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory for the first time. Moscow has reacted furiously to a decision by US President Joe Biden to change policy on Ukraine and allow Kyiv to use US-supplied long-range missiles to ...

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