SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea and Japan held high-level economic talks on Thursday for the first time in eight years, in a further sign of improving ties as the countries are drawn closer by shared geopolitical concerns. The talks, which first began in 1999, had been stalled since 2016 as relations between the two North Asian …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a missile test this week shows his country would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if an enemy provokes it with strategic weapons, as observers say he is moving to make such forces operational. Kim’s comments are the latest in a …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian Prime Minister Alexandre de Croo on Wednesday described China as a “sometimes very hostile” country, following allegations that Beijing had recruited a member of the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang as an intelligence asset. “We should not underestimate how much foreign powers do not like our democracy, our unity. Unlike Russia, …
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By Don Durfee and Antoni Slodkowski WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – After a year that brought panic over spy balloons, a fight over semiconductors and an intensifying military rivalry, China and the U.S. are ending the year with an uneasy detente. This follows a November meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping where …
By Ben Blanchard and Angie Teo TAIPEI (Reuters) – In China’s eyes all three Taiwan presidential candidates are separatists, the frontrunner to be the island’s next leader said on Wednesday in a fractious joint televised address with the other contenders. The Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections will define Chinese-claimed Taiwan’s ties with Beijing, and …
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By Alessandro Diviggiano, Xiaoyu Yin and Liz Lee HAIDONG, China (Reuters) -Braving sub-zero cold, rescuers on Wednesday pulled to safety victims of an earthquake that rocked a remote area in China’s northwestern Gansu province, while survivors faced months of uncertainty ahead without permanent shelter. The magnitude 6.2 earthquake jolted Jishishan county near the border straddling …
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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh’s main opposition party urged voters on Wednesday to boycott what it called a “one-sided dummy election” due in January, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina kicked off her campaign for a fourth consecutive term. With its top leaders either jailed or in the exile, the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) …
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By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China and Nicaragua upgraded their bilateral ties on Wednesday, setting the stage for the Asian giant to provide more economic support to the sanctioned Central American state and furthering Beijing’s strategic ambitions in the United States’ backyard. Beijing and Managua re-established diplomatic ties in 2021 after Nicaragua broke off relations …
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(This Dec. 17 story has been corrected to change the consultant’s employer in paragraph 30) (Reuters) – Generals from Myanmar’s junta held peace talks in June near the border with China with representatives of three powerful ethnic armies. They sat across a wide table covered with blue cloth and decorated with elaborate bouquets. But the …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine defence minister rebuked China on Wednesday for accusing his country of provoking tension and stirring trouble in the South China Sea, saying only Beijing believed what it was saying. “Truth and in fact, no country in the world, none, supports unequivocally their claim to the whole of South China Sea,” …
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