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Top diplomats from Japan, the US, Australia and India met on Monday to discuss security concerns amid growing tensions with China. At a meeting hosted in Tokyo by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmayam Jaishankar were expected to share strong opposition to Beijing’s escalating assertiveness in the South China Sea. Joint support to reinforce maritime safety and cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific region was also on the agenda. China has triggered growing tension with man...
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Even before President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race, the US presidential election on 5 November was the global political event of the year, casting its shadow far into Europe. The substantial differences between the candidates in content and style, and thus their impacts on Europe's security and prosperity, are indisputable. However, it is often overlooked that massive strategic changes in US politics are underway regardless of the election outcome. Or in other words, Donald Trump is less the driver of this change and more its symptom. Given this realisation, the need for Euro...
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The move coincided with a downturn in world stocks, extending losses in Chinese markets that have declined this year while share prices soared in many other countries. By midday, Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 1.4% and the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.4%. The People’s Bank of China said it cut the lending rate for one-year medium term policy loans by 20 basis points to 2.3%. That is the biggest rate cut since China's economy was slammed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The rate on 7-day loans was reduced to 1.7%. Major state-run banks cut deposit rates to relieve pressure on their finances...
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The China-US artificial intelligence trade war could intensify with speculation that Washington is thinking of tightening the export and sales of key semiconductor chips. It follows an unconfirmed report that President Joe Biden is considering using a wide-sweeping regulation, the foreign direct product rule, to further restrict sales of critical chipmaking equipment to China, according to Bloomberg. This can apply even if the product is being manufactured in a foreign country, without any US-origin components, and being sold to third-party buyers without ever coming into the US. As such, the ...
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China and Russia’s naval forces kicked off a joint military exercise only days after NATO allies called Beijing a “decisive enabler” of the war in Ukraine. Forces from both sides patrolled the western and northern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, according to the Chinese defence ministry. However, the ministry also said in its brief statement that the operation had nothing to do with international and regional situations and did not mean to target a third party. The exercise began in the Guangdong province on Sunday and is expected to last until mid-July. It aimed to demonstrate naval capability in ad...
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China released a raft of disappointing economic data, causing its stock markets to fall on Monday. The benchmark Hang Seng Index dropped more than 1% in the first hour of trading, following a sharp rebound last week. Investors are worried about China's economic prospects amidst sluggish domestic demand, a property crisis, and escalating geopolitical tensions. Additionally, the country has launched its political meeting, the Third Plenum, which is expected to introduce policy reforms aimed at tackling growth challenges in the world's second-largest economy. Key policies may encompass government...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will soon be meeting in person for the second time in two months as they visit Kazakhstan for a meeting of an international group founded to counter Western alliances. Putin and Xi last met in May when the Kremlin leader visited Beijing to underscore their close partnership that opposes the US-led democratic order and seeks to promote a more “multipolar” world. Now they’ll be holding meetings as part of the annual session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which the two countries established in 2001 to discuss security co...
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