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By Joe Cash and Liangping Gao BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese officials acknowledged on Friday the sweeping list of economic goals re-emphasised at the end of a key Communist Party meeting this week contained “many complex contradictions,” pointing to a bumpy road ahead for policy implementation. Pressure for deep changes in how the world’s second-largest economy functions …

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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan must rely on itself for defence and is likely to keep increasing spending and modernising its military given the threat it faces from China, Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Friday, responding to criticism from Donald Trump. U.S. former President Trump, the Republican candidate in a rematch with …

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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received Russian vice minister of defence Aleksey Krivoruchko and discussed the importance of the two countries’ militaries to unite more firmly to defend world peace and justice, KCNA news agency said on Friday. (Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Chris Reese)

By Nathan Layne MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who was a finalist to be Donald Trump’s running mate in the U.S. presidential campaign, said on Thursday he expected the U.S. would continue to support Taiwan under a Trump presidency.  Trump raised questions about his commitment to the democratically governed island claimed by China …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly will meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday for talks on bilateral relations and security issues, Ottawa said on Thursday. Joly is making the trip to China, her first as foreign minister, at the invitation of Wang, the Canadian foreign ministry said in …

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By Joe Cash, Kevin Yao and Liangping Gao BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese leaders reiterated their wide-ranging economic policy goals on Thursday, from modernizing industry to expanding domestic demand and curbing debt and property sector risks, without detailing implementation steps. The pledges were published in the official news agency Xinhua’s account of a key meeting of …

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By Felix Light and Nailia Bagirova TBILISI/BAKU (Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday accused each other of blocking a proposed UK-mediated meeting between their leaders, the latest bump in the road on an on-and-off peace process aimed at ending their more than three decade-long conflict. Both Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President …

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HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has filed a claim with the United Nations for an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a month after regional neighbour the Philippines made a similar move, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. Hanoi is asking to extend the continental shelf beyond the current 200 nautical miles from relevant …

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