Angry China warns US on North Korea: back off and talk or risk disaster Commentaries in China’s official media show growing Chinese anger at US grandstanding and intransigence on the North Korean issue. If the Chinese or anyone else imagined that the sanctions resolution recently passed by the UN Security Council would calm tensions in the …
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FEDERICO PIERACCINI | 09.07.2017 | OPINION On July 4, 2017, Xi Jinping was welcomed to Moscow by Putin. Their twenty-first official meeting was useful for coordinating their next moves concerning the international issues on the agenda ahead of the G20 meeting. More than twenty agreements have been signed between Russia and China, amounting to almost twelve billion dollars worth …
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| 07.07.2017 | OPINION The United States’ hegemonic dominance in the world is heading to the exits. The decline in US unipolar power has been underway for several years, in line with the emergence of a multipolar world. This week, Russia and China showed important resolve to face down American bully tactics over North Korea. The …
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The summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin in advance of the G20 meeting in Hamburg is the latest expression of the Chinese-Russian alliance which is reshaping the modern world.As my colleague Adam Garrie has rightly written, the meetings yesterday and today in Moscow between Presidents Xi Jinping of China and …
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Kim Jong-un gets what he wants: By ALEANDER MERCOURIS 3 hours ago Joint Russian-Chinese statement on Korean conflict recognises North Korea’s ‘justified concerns’, opposes military action, and effectively rules out across-the-board sanctions. Since this document is not easy to find, I set out the full text with the key points highlighted The Russian Federation and the People’s …
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Russian President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Modi showed at SPIEF in St. Petersburg a continued determination to preserve a strong mutual relationship between India and Russia which for all the continued tensions also ties India and China together. The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (“SPIEF”) which Russia holds every year in early summer in …
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| 03.06.2017 | WORLD This year, Russia and India mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited St. Petersburg to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 1 and take part in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on June 2. The two leaders signed the St. Petersburg declaration. This was the fifth Putin-Modi meeting …
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Bryan MacDonald is an Irish journalist, who is based in Russia Published time: 31 May, 2017 16:08 Edited time: 1 Jun, 2017 00:26 reg Baker 2.2K As the West dithers, Russia is moving closer to China, and it increasingly appears the G7 will never be the G8 again. Soon after the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, …
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By DAVID P. GOLDMAN It would be dangerous for America to pursue the Wilsonian (and neo-conservative) vision of internal transformation of Russia and China, with the goal of turning them into American-style democracies. conomically vibrant and technologically superior. It is whimsical to speak of a Russian-Chinese-American “alliance” in the sense of the European “Holy Alliance” …
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US Housing and Development Secretary says there is an opportunity for two powers to be “great friends” and that China “is not a very belligerent society” | 24.05.2017 In a further sign of warming bilateral ties, US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson delivered an upbeat speech on US-China relations in Washington, D.C. …
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