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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s said on Friday he will travel to China with a delegation of business leaders, though he declined to confirm whether he would travel with French President Emmanuel Macron. Scholz’s spokesperson said the trip would happen at the start of November. The trip comes at a time when Berlin …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – China’s assertiveness on the world stage is increasing, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday, echoing concerns of other EU leaders, who urge the need to review EU’s relationship with the country. “The assertiveness of China on the world stage is increasing (…) we have to keep the dialogue going with …

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PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union is witnessing an acceleration of tensions with China, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday at the end of a two-day EU summit. “The discussion showed that we’re witnessing quite an acceleration of trends and tensions. It was very clear from the Congress that President Xi …

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(Reuters) – U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers landed in Guam this week in the long-range aircraft’s second deployment to the island this year amid regional tension over Taiwan and the looming prospect of a new North Korean nuclear test. The U.S. military confirmed their temporary deployment to the U.S. Pacific territory as part of a …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union shouldn’t be building strategic, critical dependency on authoritarian regimes such as China, Finnish prime minister said as she arrived for the second day of an EU summit in Brussels. “That doesn’t mean there can be any economic relations with China but it means we shouldn’t be building that kind …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will start streaming Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s post-policy meeting news conferences live on YouTube, it said on Friday, to give the market greater access to any signals delivered on the yen or monetary policy. The central bank will start offering the live stream of Kuroda’s briefings, in Japanese only, …

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SYDNEY/TOKYO (Reuters) – Defence and energy security will be the focus of discussions when Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese this weekend, officials from the two nations said. “Australia is the most important country for Japan’s energy policy,” Kishida told reporters in Tokyo on Friday before boarding a plane for …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States unsealed criminal charges on Thursday against seven Chinese nationals accused of waging a surveillance and harassment campaign against a U.S. resident and his family, in a bid by the Chinese government to repatriate one of them back to China. The eight-count indictment, unsealed in a …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will discuss North Korea’s recent missile launches, China and tensions over Taiwan, in meetings with her Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Tokyo next week, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. Sherman’s Oct. 24-26 Tokyo trip will include a trilateral meeting with Japanese …

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