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A diplomatic winter?
"I fear that the climate for peacemaking and diplomacy will not improve in 2023"
January 12, 2023
Iran to sign friendship agreement with Asean, Singapore says
SINGAPORE (July 20): Iran will sign a cooperation treaty with Southeast Asia at an upcoming meeting that will also be attended by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and North Korean officials, a Singaporean diplomat said.
July 23, 2018
Global Economy
Global businesses scramble to align with China’s world view
SYDNEY (Jan 17): Multinational businesses keen for a slice of the world’s fastest-growing consumer market are finding they have to increasingly conform to China’s world view if they want to stay in Beijing’s good graces.
January 17, 2018
Global Economy
Vietnam's PM wants to convince Trump to keep Obama-era trade ties
HANOI (May 30): Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has a tough task when he visits the White House this week: Convince President Donald Trump to advance trade ties that blossomed under the Obama administration.
May 30, 2017
Global Markets
Taiwan seeks stronger Asia ties to overcome reliance on China
TAIPEI (May 17): “Go west!” is the mantra Taiwanese companies lived by for the best part of three decades, turning China into their biggest trading partner. But with cross-strait relations at their worst in close to a decade, President Tsai Ing-wen is
May 17, 2017
Xi buys time with Trump as tensions loom over North Korea threat
HONG KONG (April 10): After predicting a “very difficult” encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Donald Trump emerged from their first meeting hailing “an outstanding relationship” between chiefs of the world’s biggest economies.
April 10, 2017
Trump’s Xi summit tests his promise to win on trade, North Korea
WASHINGTON (April 7): President Donald Trump began his first-ever meeting with the leader of the world’s second-largest economy on Thursday, the country he blames for stealing millions of US jobs and enabling North Korea’s march toward a nuclear missi
April 07, 2017
Why Xi Jinping needs to tread carefully when he meets Trump
BEIJING (April 6): Nothing is supposed to go off script for President Xi Jinping in what is the equivalent of an election year in one-party China.
April 06, 2017