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Lithuania Expels Three Chinese Diplomats Amid Tensions Over Taiwan

This is Beirut, 29/11 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, 26/11 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, 25/11 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, 21/11 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, 20/11 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 ...

China's Xi Urges 'Strategic' Ties in Talks with Germany's Scholz

This is Beirut, 19/11 16:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for Beijing and Berlin to develop ties with a "strategic" and "long-term" perspective on Tuesday as he met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Rio de Janeiro, state media reported. "China and Germany are both major countries with significant influence," Xi told Scholz on the sidelines of the G20 summit, ...

France's Macron Meets China's Xi on G20 Sidelines

This is Beirut, 19/11 16:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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French President Emmanuel Macron met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rio, as observed by AFP journalists. On the first day of the summit on Monday, Macron spoke of a "very fractured" world order and accused the two largest economies on the planet, the United States and China, of "not ...

Eight Dead, 17 Hurt, in China School Knife Attack

This is Beirut, 16/11 19:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Eight people were killed and 17 others wounded Saturday in a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China, and the suspect, a former student, has been arrested, police said. The attack took place in the evening at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in the city of Yixing in Jiangsu province, police in Yixing said in a ...

British Museum Receives Record £1bn Chinese Ceramics Donation

This is Beirut, 15/11 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The British Museum has received a historic £1 billion ($1.27 billion) donation of Chinese ceramics, the largest for any UK institution. This 1,700-piece private collection was gifted by The Trustees of The Sir Percival David Foundation, with the announcement made late Wednesday. Sir Percival David, a British businessman and passionate Sinophile ...

China Tests Building Moon Base With Lunar Soil Bricks

This is Beirut, 15/11 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station's bricks could be made from the Moon's own soil. Brick samples will blast off aboard a cargo rocket heading for China's Tiangong space station, part of Beijing's mission to put humans on the Moon by ...

China's Xi Arrives in Peru for APEC Summit, Biden Meeting

This is Beirut, 15/11 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Peru Thursday for an Asia-Pacific summit where he will meet US counterpart Joe Biden under the shadow of a looming trade war with the incoming Donald Trump administration. Xi arrived at an air base outside the capital Lima hours before the expected touchdown of Biden on the eve of a two-day heads-of-state ...

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