Tag Archives: diplomacy

Former Taiwanese president to lead a delegation on a 12-day trip to mainland China next week. Source link

The signs are there: a pro-business cabinet, a big welcome for foreign investment and a big push for diplomacy, connectivity and sustainability. For many international companies, China will still be a major growth driver this year. Source link

Beijing has appointed a host of emissaries to take on specific tasks, from ethnic conflicts to climate change. Source link

It remains to be seen how much China will enforce the agreement given its dislike of confrontation, but that matters less than others engaging with Beijing. The world order is shifting and the West needs to find a better way to answer the offer Beijing is putting on the table …

Britain has detailed plans to bolster military and security spending to confront the ‘epoch-defining challenge’ posed by China while also countering Russia, as London updated its strategic foreign and defence policy. Source link

China has slowly increased its presence in the region in the past two decades through rising trade, foreign aid, infrastructure projects and more. The Iran-Saudi peace deal builds more credibility in the Middle East for China and will aid its efforts to strengthen ties in the region. Source link

Asean ministers have agreed to revive talks on the code of conduct, but they are applying international law rather than China’s preferred rules. Beijing must understand that coercion and negotiations cannot take place simultaneously if it wants to bring the code of conduct into being. Source link

Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said faith in the rules-based global order had been shaken and countries would now seek a ‘flight to safety’ as the post-WWII peace dividend ‘is over’. Source link

Oh Hye-son recently published a Korean-language memoir on how she and her husband Thae Yong-ho, then deputy ambassador at North Korea’s London embassy, defected in 2016. Source link

India’s foreign minister says relations have suffered from China’s ‘posture at the border’ and because Beijing ‘violated agreements’. His comments come ahead of a G20 meeting in New Delhi that senior Chinese officials are set to attend. Source link