By Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Jan. 13 covering North Korea, Ukraine, China’s tensions with Taiwan, and a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” the White House said on Tuesday. The two leaders will discuss “a range of …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Farah Master BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -State media in China played down the severity of a surge of COVID-19 infections ahead of an expected briefing on Tuesday by its scientists to the World Health Organization, which is hoping for detailed data on the evolution of the virus. China’s abrupt U-turn on …
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(Reuters) – China’s Communist Party has appointed Xin Changxing as the party chief of the eastern Jiangsu province, state media reported on Tuesday. It has also named Chen Gang as the party chief of the northwestern Qinghai province, the official news agency Xinhua said. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
By Karen Lema and Yew Lun Tian MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr will fly to Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day visit, during which he is expected to discuss, among other things, Beijing’s activities in the disputed South China Sea that Manila describes as illegal. Speaking ahead of his flight, Marcos said …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Some countries’ COVID-19 entry restrictions targetting China lack scientific basis and are unreasonable, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign minsitry said at a regular briefing on Tuesday. Mao Ning said that we are “firmly opposed to such practices” and will take corresponding measures accordingly. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
By Hyonhee Shin, Trevor Hunnicutt and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Korea and the United States are discussing joint planning and implementation of U.S. nuclear operations to counter North Korea and hope to conduct a tabletop exercise soon, officials from both sides said on Tuesday. The plan came amid South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s push …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow is scheduled to visit China between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, state media CCTV reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
(This Jan. 2 story has been refiled to change wording in the second paragraph and remove repeated word in the final paragraph) By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Actor Jeremy Renner, who played Hawkeye in the Marvel “Avengers” movies, was in critical but stable condition in a Nevada hospital on Monday, a day after suffering a …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -Seoul and Washington are discussing possible joint exercises using U.S. nuclear assets, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said, while North Korean leader Kim Jong Un branded the South its “undoubted enemy” in flaring cross-border tensions. Yoon’s comments, in a newspaper interview published on Monday, followed his call for “war preparation” …
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(Reuters) – Brazilian new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday he had received a letter from Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressing a desire to increase cooperation between the two countries. “I received from China’s Vice President Wang Qishan a letter from President Xi Jinping expressing his compliments and willingness to expand our …
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