NEW YORK: A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called on the United Nations Security Council to take urgent actions to de-escalate the Lebanese-Israeli situation. “The Security Council bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security,” Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the UN, said at the Security Council briefing on the Lebanese-Israeli … Read more
Carlos Alcaraz of Spain poses with his trophy after winning against Jannik Sinner of Italy during their men’s singles finals match of the China Open tennis tournament, at the National Tennis Center in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) Carlos Alcaraz roared back from a set down to beat world number one Jannik … Read more
BEIJING: China calls on the international community, especially major countries with influence, to play a constructive role and avoid further turmoil in the Middle East, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. On Oct. 1 Beijing time, Israel launched ground offensive in southern Lebanon. In the early morning of Oct. 2, Iran launched military … Read more
NEW DELHI: India and China agreed to redouble efforts to ensure complete disengagement on the contested Himalayan frontier, New Delhi said on Thursday after India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Russia. “Both sides agreed to work with urgency and redouble their efforts to realize complete disengagement in the … Read more
China athletes parade during the Opening Ceremony for the Paralympics 2024, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) China began to exert its traditional dominance at the Paralympics 2024 in Paris on Friday, pulling ahead of second-placed Great Britain despite a double gold medal success for British swimmers. The Chinese, who have … Read more
FILE – Simone Biles, of the United States, holds up her medals after the women’s artistic gymnastics individual apparatus finals Bercy Arena at the Paris Olympics 2024, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) PARIS— The contest for most gold medals at the Paris Olympics ended in a 40-40 tie between … Read more
Cao Yuan defended his title in the men’s 10-meter platform on Saturday and gave his nation an unprecedented sweep of the diving gold medals at the Paris Olympics. The Big Red Machine won all eight golds handed out at the Olympic Aquatics Centre, most of them with dominating victories. That wasn’t the case in the … Read more
Gold medalists Team China, China’s Pan Zhanle, China’s Sun Jiajun, China’s Qin Haiyang and China’s Xu Jiayu pose after the final of the men’s 4x100m medley relay final swimming event during the Paris Olympics 2024 at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, on August 4, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / … Read more
This article is part of the US-China Dynamics series, edited by Muqtedar Khan, Jiwon Nam and Amara Galileo. Forced displacement is an increasingly pervasive reality: as of 2020, there were 82.4 million forcibly displaced people in the world (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2020). According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), forced migrants … Read more
This article is part of the US-China Dynamics series, edited by Muqtedar Khan, Jiwon Nam and Amara Galileo. When one thinks of Latin America from outside the region, they seem to be faced with a group of homogeneous countries, with similar language, culture and history. However, despite the links that unite them, the interests of … Read more