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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Government Palace in Lima, Peru, on November 14, 2024. Photo: Zuma Press Wire/dpa

Xi touts China as globalisation leader, draws contrast with US under Trump

Shared growth stressed on Apec sidelines in Peru as Chinese leader tells CEOs that Beijing’s economic and financial woes can be fixed.

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Who is Kamala Harris, potentially America’s first female president?

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US, China in ‘robust conversation’ on North Korean troops in Russia: Blinken

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Israel and Hamas signal openness to talks on Gaza war

The war in Gaza has raged for more than a year, since Hamas fighters raided southern Israel.

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A Palestinian boy sits on the rubble of the destroyed Maghazi Camp Services Club building following an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

China’s envoy in Washington warns US against ‘strategic miscalculation’

Ambassador Xie says the ‘small yard, high fence’ policy of US President Joe Biden’s administration is damaging both countries’ interests.

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China’s top diplomat calls for Mideast ceasefire, denounces trade protectionism

In speech at UN, Wang Yi positions China as global peacemaker, warns against countries inciting confrontation in Asia.

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China and Brazil hold peace plan meeting for Ukraine war on UN sidelines

Beijing’s top diplomat voices hope for convening global peace conference with ‘fair discussion’ of all proposals as US stays sceptical.

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Wang Yi (right), China’s top diplomat, confers with senior Brazilian official Celso Amorim at a meeting in New York on Friday. Photo: AP

Blinken is heading back to the Middle East, this time without visit to Israel

US Secretary of State visiting Egypt to discuss a Gaza ceasefire proposal, avoiding Israel amid tense negotiations.

US, Britain stress unity towards China as new strategic dialogue opens in London

Top diplomats tout allies’ strengthening ties and ‘indispensable’ partnership as Washington vies to blunt Beijing’s Indo-Pacific influence.

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China’s economic coercion evokes scrutiny, resentment: US officials

Washington’s global network of allies said to offer moral support, supply-chain diversion strategies and new markets when Beijing takes aim.

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Nicholas Burns, US ambassador to China, has warned against a world that heavily depends on China for trade and technologies. Photo: AP

Israel strikes Gaza, Blinken in Tel Aviv to help close ceasefire deal

Israeli delegation to travel to Cairo on Sunday for further talks; US Secretary of State Blinken expected to meet Netanyahu on Monday.

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A Palestinian man carries children wounded in an Israeli strike at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza on Sunday. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | Far from an aggressor, China has been remarkably restrained

Despite becoming a US peer competitor, China’s practice of strategic forbearance does not point to aspirations of global hegemony.

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Nobel laureate Yunus to head Bangladesh interim government

Opinion | As American allies in Asia take matters into their own hands, what of the US?

If the US wants to protect its influence in Asia, it must drive greater economic engagement with its regional partners.

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Philippine military chief General Romeo Brawner Jnr (left) shakes hands with Japan Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff General Yoshihide Yoshida as they arrive before meetings with Philippine and Japanese foreign and defence ministers at a hotel in Taguig, Philippines, on July 8. Japan and the Philippines have signed a defense pact allowing their troops to enter each other’s country. Photo: AP

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh interim government

Decision to form interim government helmed by microfinance pioneer Yunus was taken at meeting of President Shahabuddin and military leaders.

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Muhammad Yunus has been tapped to lead the interim government in Bangladesh. Photo: AP

Blinken’s trip edges Asean to ‘more proactive’ stance in sea dispute: analysts

Trip seen as continuity of US foreign policy, but analysts say more insight needed into engagement with rest of Asia ‘as a good in itself’.

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US discusses Ukraine peace with India amid reports of Modi’s planned visit

While Western countries sanctioned Moscow after Ukraine invasion, nations friendly with Russia – such as India and China – continue to trade.

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Outside In | It’s time American China strategists accepted some inconvenient truths

The Council on Foreign Relations’ China-focused project could be a chance to rethink flawed assumptions underpinning the rules-based order.

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US secretary of state Antony Blinken speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on June 28, 2023. Photo: AP

US at G7 to keep pressing China to halt its Russia military support

Janet Yellen expected to restate American call for firms and financial institutions in China and elsewhere to ‘cease’ backing Moscow’s defence complex.

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Opinion | Stakes have never been higher for speeding up US-China cooperation

Recent high-level talks between China and the US on climate change and ongoing wars highlight the potential for successful collaboration. The current moment calls for even more bilateral coordination on the environment, peacekeeping, AI governance and reforming multilateral institutions.

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US working with EU to counter China on Russia support, overcapacity

America’s top diplomat describes Beijing as seeking ‘better relations with Europe’ while fuelling its ‘greatest security threat’ since the Cold War.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

US cannot ‘say one thing and do another’, Chinese leader tells Blinken

China-US ties are more stable but still at risk if ‘red lines’ are crossed, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday afternoon. Photo: Reuters

US-China relations: Blinken hits out at ‘non-market practices’

Secretary of State raised concerns in meeting with Shanghai party chief Chen Jining, but also said direct engagement between the two sides is a ‘necessity’.

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My Take | Please, America, show some shame over the war in Gaza

If China has been committing genocide in Xinjiang, then what do we call what Israel and the United States are doing to the people of Palestine?

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China shows off nuclear might ahead of top US diplomat Antony Blinken’s visit

Chinese navy releases video showing launch of JL-2 ballistic missile from nuclear submarine in display of its second-strike capability just days before US secretary of state’s trip to Beijing and Shanghai.

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China’s JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile makes its debut during a military parade in Beijing in 2019. Photo: Xinhua

Opinion | Listen to what US officials are saying and the divisive politics is clear

From Blinken’s implicit on-the-menu threat and Burns’ China-bashing, to Raimondo’s iPhone-on-wheels concerns, US politics, whether foreign or domestic, is looking divisive, racist, arbitrary and counterproductive.

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US top official Blinken arrives in South Korea to attend democracy summit

The US secretary of state will meet South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul to explore how to boost their alliance and ‘extended deterrence’ against North Korea.

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Wang Yi raises Taiwan, trade and anti-Chinese ‘harassment’ in Antony Blinken talks

During meeting with US counterpart on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, top diplomat Wang warns Washington against ‘de-risking’ and supporting ‘Taiwan independence’ and urges US to stop profiling Chinese citizens in the country.

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Antony Blinken
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Born
16 Apr 1962
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Politics
Job Title
US Secretary of State
last updated:
7 October, 2024
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