By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday her mission in life was to ensure the island continued to belong to its people and that Taiwan’s existence was a provocation to no one, in a fiery pre-election rebuff to China. Taiwan’s Nov. 26 local elections come a month after Chinese …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Heads of government from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies will meet on the Indonesian island of Bali next week, with some attending in person and others virtually. The Nov 15-16 summit is the first among G20 leaders since Russia invaded Ukraine in what Moscow has called a “special military operation”, …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China will keep fine-tuning its steps to control COVID-19 as it tries to minimise infections and serious cases, officials said on Saturday, a day after surprise announcements to lessen the impact of a strict zero-COVID policy. The authorities announced the moves, cheered by financial markets, despite a surge infections to their highest since …
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday thanked Cambodia’s prime minister and chair of the ASEAN regional bloc for his critical remarks about the war in Ukraine, and said he was looking forward to democracy returning to army-ruled Myanmar. Biden made the remarks ahead of a meeting with Hun Sen, Cambodia’s long-serving …
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By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Saturday proposed a mechanism for three-way dialogue with China and Japan including a leadership summit to address issues such as security and climate change. At a summit of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan and South Korea, Yoon …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday he hoped the two countries could strive toward building a “constructive and stable” relationship, Japan’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. Li also referred to the importance of Japan-China relations during a brief exchange of views between the two, held on the sidelines …
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister on Saturday urged Southeast Asian countries to take all measures possible to stop Russia from playing “hunger games” over a Ukrainian Black Sea grain deal, which could expire next week. The deal allowing the export of food and fertilizers from several of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports – brokered …
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By Kate Lamb (Reuters) – It was as a budding diplomat in the 1970s that Jose Ramos-Horta, a man who would go on to win the Nobel prize for his fight for East Timor’s independence, first raised the idea of his country joining Southeast Asia’s economic and political bloc. Almost half a century later, his …
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By Nandita Bose ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will warn Chinese President Xi Jinping at a meeting on Monday that North Korea’s continued pursuit of weapons development will lead to an enhanced U.S. military presence in the region, the White House said. The United States is concerned that North Korea plans …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Residents welcomed China shortening COVID-19 quarantine by two days for close contacts of infected people and for inbound travellers as it eased some of its strict pandemic rules on Friday. While COVID case numbers in China are small by global standards, the policy response has been marked by lockdowns and mass testing …
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