Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India and China should handle the bilateral ties from a “strategic height and long-term perspective” while implementing the common understanding reached by the leaders of the two countries, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday (January 21, 2025). The Ministry was reacting to External … Read more
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. File | Photo Credit: ANI Sri Lanka on October 11 welcomed China’s tentative agreement to a debt restructure, as the island nation works to restore its ruined finances after suffering its worst-ever economic crisis. The government defaulted on its $46 billion debt last year at a time when months … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during a bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ meeting, in Goa, India on Thursday, May 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI The situation along the India-China border is “generally stable” and both sides should “draw lessons from history”, … Read more
China has noted big increase in bilateral trade with India to claim positive trajectory in partnership yet emphasised on CPEC and Hambantota Port as its South Asian connectivity initiatives disregarding New Delhi’s concerns. Trade between China and India in the first nine months this year reached $103.6 billion, up 14.6 percent year-on-year, the Chinese Foreign … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 13th BRICS summit to be held on Thursday at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China’s Foreign Ministry announced here on Wednesday. Modi will chair the virtual meeting of the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), the Ministry of External Affairs said in … Read more
The Chinese military has conducted an amphibious landing exercise in waters near Taiwan, days after a delegation of the US senators visited the estranged island in a military plane as a show of support. According to a statement by the Eastern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army, its 72nd Group Army carried out naval … Read more
BEIJING/TAIPEI: China said on Wednesday it would make a “necessary response” to a planned military dialogue between the United States and Chinese-claimed Taiwan, saying it firmly opposed the event. China has been angered by stepped up support for the democratic island by outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, including new arms sales and visits to … Read more