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10 Feb

China’s Xi calls for stronger ‘strategic coordination’ with Russia in Lunar New Year call with Putin

Washington, Feb 10, Chinese President Xi Jinping increased his country's friction with the US and its Western allies by heralding the Lunar Year, vowing greater cooperation and coordination with America's fierce rival in geopolitics -- Russia. Xi heralded a new year of growing coordination with Russia during a call with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday that comes as the two countries continue to cement their partnership amid friction with the West, media reports from Hong Kong and Kremlin as reported by the American media said. Xi called up Russian President Putin and said the two sides should "strengthen strategic coordination"…

21 Jun

Joe Biden called his counterpart Xi “dictator” in Beijing

Washington, June 21, Just a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken became the highest ranking American official to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Joe Biden called his counterpart in Beijing a "dictator". Blinken's meeting with Xi in Beijing on Monday was part of efforts to improve the strained relations between the two largest economies. But at a fundraiser in California on Tuesday night, Biden said that Xi was embarrassed over the recent tensions involving a suspected Chinese spy balloon transiting the US which was shot down by an American fighter jet, the BBC reported. "The reason why…

15 Jun

Kim Jong-un touts leadership of China’s Xi in b’day greetings

Seoul, June 15 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the latter's 70th birthday, saying that Beijing's national power has "remarkably" strengthened under his leadership, Pyongyang's state media reported on Thursday. In the message, Kim said that Beijing has "built a comprehensively well-off society" and that its "national power and international position remarkably strengthened" under Xi's "energetic" leadership, according to North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "The message expressed belief that the struggle for the prosperity of China will surely emerge victorious as there are the leadership of Xi Jinping and…

26 Mar

Xi has succeeded in making Russia more dependent on China

New Delhi, March 26. Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning Russia into, in effect, a vassal state of China. Over time, as the power imbalance in the relationship continues to widen in China's favour, Moscow will find itself less and less able to chart an independent foreign policy or deviate from alignment with Beijing's interests, says Michaeal Schuman, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub. That, of course, suits Chinese President Xi Jinping just fine, since he gets greater leverage over Moscow, Schuman said. Both sides got what they wanted out of the summit. Putin continues to benefit…

22 Mar

‘Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years and we’re driving it’: Xi’s parting message to Putin

London, March 22 (IANS) China's President Xi Jinping told a grinning Vladimir Putin 'change is coming' in an ominous parting message as he departed Moscow following talks with his Russian counterpart, the media reported. "Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together," Xi told Putin via his interpreter - words sure to set alarm bells ringing in the West, Daily Mail reported. "Please, take care, dear friend," he added, gripping Putin's hand warmly before being waved off by the Russian President who bid Xi a "safe journey". After the two leaders hailed a…

08 Feb

US says Chinese balloon also spied on India, others

Washington, Feb 8 (IANS) The US believes that the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that it shot down on February 4 over the Atlantic Ocean, was part of a wider effort by Beijing to spy on military assets in other countries, including India. Meanwhile, an Indian official had attended a briefing conducted by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Monday for representatives from 40 embassies. These developments were first reported by The Washington Post citing unidentified US officials who further said that such a balloon had been sighted over five continents. The Post reported that US officials believe the surveillance balloon…