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New Zealand used high-level talks in Beijing to raise concerns about the surprise deployment of Chinese warships off its western coast, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump threw a curve ball at China by linking the fentanyl issue to his tariffs on imports

S. Jaishankar said during a discussion at Chatham House, a British policy institute. He acknowledged that the relationship has been shaped by decades of ups and downs, but the real challenge is managing the balance as both nations rise. Reflecting on the last 40 years, Jaishankar noted that peace along the border was seen as essential for better ties. However, the situation changed dramatically in 2020 when Chinese forces clashed with Indian troops in the Galwan Valley, leading to the deaths of around 20 Indian soldiers and multiple Chinese casualties. It was the most serious border confrontation in 45 years.

Chinese Defence Ministry on Thursday said the militaries of India and China are implementing the resolutions to end the standoff in eastern Ladakh in a «comprehensive and effective manner.» «At present, the Chinese and Indian militaries are implementing the resolutions related to the border areas in a compressive and effective manner,» Chinese Defence Ministry Spokesman Sr Col Wu Qian told a media briefing here, replying to a question on the status of the normalisation of the situation in eastern Ladakh sector.

Modi-Xi meeting in Kazan last year and subsequent visits to Beijing by NSA Ajit Doval and foreign secretary Vikram Misri, which led to several «common understandings on the boundary question and practical cooperation,» Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong said Tuesday.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday. Wang Yi noted that India and China have implemented the important consensus reached by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting held in Russia's Kazan last year.

Trump administration will pursue a relationship with China that advances US interests and puts the American people first, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. Rubio on Friday spoke today with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang, the first call between the two diplomats since President Donald Trump's administration took office on January 20.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will reportedly send a pretty high level official to represent him at US President- elect Donald Trump's inauguration taking place on the month of January of the year 2025, though, instead of attending himself, reported The Hill. This decision actually marks a departure from previous diplomatic practices as China typically sends its ambassador to such events.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For Indians looking to travel to the Middle Kingdom, a direct flight is still some distance. Despite cooling hostilities, the Indian security establishment is opposed to direct flights that remain suspended since 2020, two people aware of the matter said, given unresolved national security concerns.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Modern China is a superpower with its roots in a guerrilla army. This helps explain its self-interested responses to crises, including the turmoil now raging in the Middle East.

Xi Jinping on Tuesday left for Russia to attend the BRICS summit where he is expected to meet leaders of the member countries, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines. Xi will articulate China's vision for «greater cooperation» of the BRICS bloc, which has now expanded to 10 members, and «open a new era for the Global South to seek strength through solidarity» at the three day summit. The summit of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), which now has expanded with five additional members Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, is being held in the Russian city of Kazan, about 900 km east of Moscow, from October 22 to 24. Xi left Beijing for the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

BRICS summit, the Modi government has said that India and China have reached an agreement to resume patrolling in eastern Ladakh. The development has brightened chances of a meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazan on the sidelines of the summit. «Over the last several weeks, Indian and Chinese diplomatic and military negotiators have been in close contact with each other in a variety of forums. As a result of the discussions that have taken place over the last several weeks, an agreement has been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border area and this is leading to disengagement and eventually a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020,» foreign secretary Vikram Misri said at a media briefing. Indian and Chinese soldiers will be able to resume patrolling in the way they had been doing before the border face-off in May 2020, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said at a media event. He said LAC breakthrough is a good development that happened due to «patient and persevering diplomacy».

Antony Blinken underscored strong U.S. concerns about China's support for Russia's defense industrial base in talks on Friday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, saying Beijing's talk of peace in Ukraine «doesn't add up.» In a meeting with Wang on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Blinken said he also raised China's «dangerous and destabilizing actions» in the South China Sea and discussed improving communication between their militaries. Blinken told a press conference he and Wang also discussed ways to disrupt the flow of drugs into the United States, and the risks posed by artificial intelligence.

United Nations General Assembly, Kyiv said Thursday. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who had earlier met Russia's top diplomat, told a Security Council session this week that diplomacy was the only solution to the war in Ukraine. Wang met Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiga and the head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said.

Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday and discussed the ongoing Ukraine conflict. During their discussion, both leaders reiterated the sanctions imposed by the Western countries' violated UN Security Council resolutions and undermined global economic stability. «Sergey Lavrov and Wang Yi mentioned that Western countries' illegitimate sanctions imposed in circumvention of UN Security Council resolutions are unacceptable as they undermine the stability of the global economy and universal forms of trade and economic cooperation,» the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has asked her Chinese counterpart to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens there after a 10-year-old schoolboy was fatally stabbed

India and China on Thursday agreed to work with «urgency» and «redouble» their efforts to realise complete disengagement in remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh as NSA Ajit Doval held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in St Petersburg with a focus on an early resolution of the lingering border standoff. Doval conveyed to Wang that peace and tranquillity in border areas and respect for the Line of Actual Control (LAC) are essential for normalcy in bilateral ties, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The Doval-Wang meeting took place in the Russian city on the sidelines of a conclave of national security advisors of the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) nations. «The meeting gave the two sides an opportunity to review the recent efforts towards finding an early resolution of the remaining issues along the Line of Actual Control, which will create conditions to stabilise and rebuild bilateral relations,» the MEA said.

(Bloomberg) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan discussed setting up new talks between their presidents in meetings aimed at managing the two nations’ difficult relationship.

Beijing, on a visit with the stated aim of keeping communications open between the two powers, as the relationship between China and the United States has become increasingly tense in recent years. Sullivan, on his first trip to China in his capacity as the main adviser to President Joe Biden on U.S. national security issues, has met with senior Chinese officials including Foreign Minister Wang Yi and a senior general of the Central Military Commission. China and the U.S. have become increasingly at odds over various issues, starting with a trade war dating back to 2018, and which now encompasses global security matters, such as China's claims over the South China Sea, and industrial policy on things like automobile and solar panel manufacturing. Sullivan's trip this week is meant to keep the tensions from growing further.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan