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Taiwan-US Relations Secure Ahead Of Trump Xi Talks

Taiwan-US Relations Secure Ahead Of Trump-Xi Talks

October 28, 2025 3:46 am

Taiwan-US relations remain solid, Taiwan’s foreign minister said Tuesday, rejecting concerns that President Donald Trump could bargain away the island’s interests when he meets China’s President Xi Jinping in South Korea this week.

Lin Chia lung told reporters in Taipei that there was no fear of abandonment. He said cooperation with Washington continued across security, trade and business despite Trump seeking a broader trade deal with Beijing.

The reassurance comes as Taipei watches Trump’s diplomacy closely. The US president has shifted his tone on Taiwan since taking office earlier this year, while publicly saying Xi promised not to invade …

China Expels Two Top Military Generals In Sweeping Graft Crackdown

China: Two Top Military Generals Expelled In Graft Crackdown

October 27, 2025 5:50 pm

Beijing’s removal of Generals He Weidong and Miao Hua marks the most significant military purge in years, underscoring Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive.

China has expelled two of its highest-ranking military officers from the Communist Party and stripped them of their posts in the latest escalation of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign within the armed forces.

The Defense Ministry announced on Friday October 24, 2025, that General He Weidong, vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), and Admiral Miao Hua, the military’s former top political officer, were removed from the party and handed over for prosecution on corruption charges. …

China’s Next Five-Year Plan Could Redefine Global Power

China’s Next Five-Year Plan Could Redefine Global Power

October 20, 2025 9:33 am

Beijing is preparing its next chapter. As the Chinese Communist Party’s top brass gathers this week, they’re not merely setting domestic targets — they’re charting how the world’s second-largest economy will reshape the global order once again.

What emerges from these closed-door sessions will guide China’s next Five-Year Plan, the economic playbook stretching from 2026 to 2030. For decades, these plans have acted as the country’s compass — quietly transforming not only China’s destiny, but the world’s balance of power.

The tradition began in 1953, modeled after Soviet central planning. But it was Deng Xiaoping’s 1980s blueprint of “reform and …

China Uses TikTok As Leverage In US Talks

China Uses TikTok As Leverage In US Talks

September 23, 2025 8:35 am

For years, Beijing bristled at Washington’s demands that TikTok be sold off, dismissing the push as “robbers’ logic.” The video app, wildly popular with young Americans, became another front in the larger battle over technology, influence, and national security.

Now, China is signaling something different. Officials have begun floating the possibility that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, could part with its U.S. operations — a shift that has stirred speculation about what Beijing hopes to gain in return.

TikTok’s value lies not just in its audience of more than 170 million Americans, but in its algorithm — the recommendation engine credited …

Kim Joins Xi And Putin At Beijing Parade In Show Of Unity

Kim Joins Xi And Putin At Beijing Parade In Show Of Unity

September 10, 2025 9:47 am

At Beijing’s grand military parade last week, the optics were impossible to ignore. Flanked by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un stepped onto the global stage not as a pariah, but as a central figure in an alternative order forged by the world’s most powerful autocrats.

For the North Korean leader, it was a rare moment of triumph. Long cast as a junior partner in relations with China and Russia, Kim emerged from the spectacle with tangible gains: a show of solidarity, renewed economic lifelines, and perhaps something more consequential — tacit recognition of North Korea’s nuclear status.…

Beijing Steps Up Security Before Xi’s Key Global Appearance

Beijing Steps Up Security Before Xi’s Key Global Appearance

September 2, 2025 9:14 am

Beijing is bracing for a grand military parade, a meticulously staged display of power orchestrated by President Xi Jinping. Eight massive Chinese flags flank a portrait of Mao Zedong atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace, overlooking Tiananmen Square, one of the largest public squares in the world.

Rows of seats have been reserved for 26 foreign heads of state, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, signaling Xi’s diplomatic influence. Nearby, outside the Great Hall of the People, two enormous floral arrangements commemorate the end of World War II, while seating for roughly 50,000 invitees stretches …

Zelenskyy Appeals To China To Help End Ongoing War In Ukraine

Zelenskyy Appeals To China To Help End Ongoing War In Ukraine

August 4, 2022 5:07 am

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a case for direct talks with China’s Xi Jinping even as he urged Beijing to use its political and economic influence on Russia to help end the war in his country.

Zelenskyy told the South China Morning Post (SCMP) in an interview published on Thursday that he has been asking for a conversation with the Chinese president since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February, but that one is yet to take place.

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China’s First Locally Made Nuclear Reactor Goes Online

China’s First Locally Made Nuclear Reactor Goes Online

November 28, 2020 10:45 am

China has powered up its first domestically developed nuclear reactor — the Hualong One — a significant step in Beijing’s attempts to become less dependent on Western allies for energy security and critical technology.

The reactor, which was connected to the national grid on Friday, can generate 10 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year and cut carbon emissions by 8.16 million tons, according to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).

‘This marks China breaking the monopoly of foreign nuclear power technology and officially entering the technology’s first batch of advanced countries,’ CNNC said in a statement.

Nuclear plants supplied less than …

WHO issues new warning as Beijing records new cases

WHO Issues New Warning As Beijing Records New Cases

June 16, 2020 9:51 am
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has issued warning to countries as a fresh outbreak of more than 100 cases of coronavirus have been officially recorded in Beijing, China’s capital city.

As countries ease restrictions and lift bans on their borders, the WHO warned countries to stay on alert for a possible resurgence of COVID-19 infections.

Read Also: Nigeria Records 403 New Cases Of Coronavirus As Toll Rises To 16,085

The UN health agency said the fresh outbreak is a cause of concern due to Beijing’s size and connectivity to other countries.

WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this during a

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Trump Blames China For 'Mass Worldwide Killing'

Trump Blames China For ‘Mass Worldwide Killing’

May 21, 2020 3:04 pm

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again lashed out at China over the coronavirus pandemic, blaming Beijing for “mass Worldwide killing.”

His early morning tweet, which also referred to an unidentified “wacko in China,” was the latest heated rhetoric from the White House, where Trump is making attacks on Beijing a centerpiece of his November reelection bid.

“It was the ‘incompetence of China’, and nothing else, that did this mass Worldwide killing,” the president tweeted.

The virus first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December and spread rapidly around the world, killing more than 323,000 people at the …

Fearful Of Virus Return, Beijing Turns Into Virtual Fortress

Fearful Of Virus Return, Beijing Turns Into Fortress

April 14, 2020 6:31 pm

Beijing has virtually walled itself off to outsiders with drastic measures to protect China’s seat of power against the threat of a second wave of coronavirus infections from other regions.

After largely getting the outbreak under control, China has banned foreigners from entering the country as authorities fret over an increase in cases imported from abroad — though most have been Chinese citizens.

But Beijing has gone a step further, imposing a strict 14-day quarantine on people arriving from other parts of China, regardless of whether they test negative for COVID-19 — a measure not required in other …

US And China Trade Barbs Over Coronavirus

US And China Trade Barbs Over Coronavirus

March 17, 2020 5:05 pm

US President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on calling the coronavirus spreading rapidly across the world the “Chinese Virus,” despite protests from Beijing.

“It did come from China, so I think it’s very accurate,” Trump told a news conference, defending tweets in which he used the label for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump indicated that another motive was payback for what he said was China’s disinformation campaign blaming the US military for the virus.

“China was putting out information which was false,” he said.

“I didn’t appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them. Our …

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