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Russia and China hail their cooperation ahead of Putin’s expected Beijing visit

CNN  —  Russia and China’s top diplomats discussed strengthening their international cooperation during a meeting in Moscow on Monday ahead of an expected landmark visit from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing in the coming weeks. The two countries would continue “well-coordinated work” at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), which opened a new session this …

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Taiwan’s defense ministry urges Beijing to stop ‘military harassment’ after 103 Chinese warplanes fly near island

Taipei, Taiwan CNN  —  Taiwan’s defense ministry has urged Beijing to stop its “persistent military harassment,” after it detected more than 100 Chinese warplanes close to the island in a 24-hour span between Sunday and Monday. The number of warplanes recorded posed “severe challenges to the Taiwan Strait and regional safety,” the ministry said in …

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Western leaders welcomed China’s presence at Ukraine peace talks. But Beijing’s relationship with Europe is still testy

CNN  —  European officials took some small comfort when China attended a summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last weekend. The meeting aimed to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine. While Beijing didn’t budge from its stated position of impartiality, China’s mere presence at a meeting to which Russia says it was not …

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Biden compares China’s Xi Jinping to ‘dictators’ even as Washington and Beijing work to thaw relations

San Francisco, CA CNN  —  President Joe Biden compared Chinese President Xi Jinping to “dictators” during a political fundraiser in California Tuesday night, delivering the unscripted remarks roughly a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his recent trip had yielded “progress” in repairing the fractured relationship between Washington and Beijing. “The reason …

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Beijing attempts to play peacemaker with planned trip by special envoy to Ukraine

CNN  —  Chinese envoy Li Hui is expected to wrap up a two-day visit to Ukraine Wednesday – the first stop on a European tour focused on the war there, as China attempts to fashion itself as a peacemaker in the grinding conflict despite its close ties with Russia. A source within the Ukrainian government …

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Sandstorms blanket Beijing and northern China as air pollution soars off the charts

Hong Kong CNN  —  A severe sandstorm has swept across Beijing and several northern provinces in China, blanketing the region in thick clouds of orange dust and sending air pollution soaring to hazardous levels, state weather authorities said on Wednesday. Dense clouds enveloped the Chinese capital where the air quality index of PM10 – particles …

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