In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, a Taiwanese guided missile destroyer, left, monitors a Chinese guided missile destroyer right, near Taiwan in May 2024 during the inauguration of Taiwan’s newly elected president.
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The latest war games by China near Taiwan are just another reminder of the various ways Chinese authorities try to undermine liberal democracies and international peace and security.
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Putin’s trip to Beijing may not have gained him as many trade benefits as he had hoped.
Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, arrives in Beijing to meet President Xi on April 15 2024.
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President Xi is looking to play a wider international role, meetings with other national leaders suggest.
Lavrov and Yi meet in Beijing to discuss the ongoing relationship between Russia and China.
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China and Russia have jointly criticised the west, as well as pledging economic and security co-operation.
Biden and Xi’s meeting in San Francisco in 2023 is being seen as a breakthrough in their relationship.
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Washington and Beijing have flashpoints to negotiate, but appear to be choosing to do this through diplomacy, for now.
Posters of presidential candidate William Lai and his running mate, Hsiao Bi-khim.
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A candidate from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party looks set to win the presidency despite Beijing’s pressure and rhetoric.
China’s President Xi Jinping meets Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in Beijing on June 14, 2023.
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Beijing’s tone on the Middle East crisis has shifted since Hamas’s initial attack, becoming increasingly pro-Palestinian.
Presidents Xi and Putin met in Moscow in March 2023, and are due to meet again in Beijing.
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Vladimir Putin’s expected meeting with President Xi in Beijing is likely to cement China’s position as the most power partner.
China’s president Xi Jinping is not due to attend the G20.
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China’s president Xi Jinping is testing out a “softer” foreign policy approach.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin toast during their dinner at the Kremlin in Moscow in March 2023.
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The spectacle of two UN Security Council members — China and Russia — allegedly perpetrating mass atrocity crimes is deeply troubling. Here’s how the international community must step up.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing in July 2023.
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Relations between the U.S. and China have become antagonistic over the last decade. Here’s why the relationship must change.
Demonstrators attend a pro-Ukraine rally in Taiwan in February 2023.
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Foreign policy experts are divided on whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes it more or less likely that China will launch a similar attack on Taiwan. Here are the arguments on both sides.
Too few children means China needs to look outside the country for new blood.
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Chinese politicians have looked toward policies to encourage couples to have more children to offset population decline. It hasn’t worked.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping during happier times?
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China has provided Russia with economic support during the war in Ukraine. But Beijing may be concerned over recent events in Moscow.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins government officials from the U.S. and China during a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023.
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The US and China are engaged in a classic power struggle. The question is, who will come out on top?
Brazilian president Lula meets China’s president Xi on an official visit to Beijing in 2023.
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Alliances around the Ukraine war have highlighted fragmenting support for the west.
Xi Jinping speaks at one of the year’s key events, the ‘two sessions’ in Beijing.
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The decision-making process can be difficult to follow.
Opening the doors to Russia and China’s perception.
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The setting was grand, so too was the plan. But behind the peace plan put forward by China and welcomed by Russia, is the question, what do both nations seek?
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The recent Iran-Saudi Arabia diplomatic truce brokered by Beijing heightens expectations of Xi’s visit. But the Ukraine case is vastly different.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, met with his then-Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in March 2022 in Huangshan.
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China and Russia’s relationship is complex. But China’s decision to support Russia’s war on Ukraine could ultimately come down to China’s own political interests.