•US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping China’s leader Xi Jinping will visit the United States this week for talks with President Donald Trump, Beijing confirmed today, expressing hope they will strengthen “strategic stability” between the world’s two largest economies. Washington had already made clear t...
•Chinese flag Beijing rejected today “groundless” reports that Chinese entities supplied Tehran with satellite images of a military base housing US troops in Jordan, before and after an Iranian strike killed three American soldiers. The reports by the Wall Street Journal over the weekend related to July 17 missile strikes launched by Iran on t...
•Falconets battled to a 0-0 draw with China, yesterday Nigeria’s junior women’s football team, the Falconets remain in contention for a place in the knockout stage of the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup after playing out a goalless draw with China at Arena Sosnowiec in Poland. The result earned Nigeria their first point in […]...
•Trump US President Donald Trump warned China and Russia today against selling weapons to Iran — while saying he believed assurances from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that they were not yet doing so. “Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating,” Trump said […]...
•Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri a China has released the founder of an underground church who has been detained since October, his church and family confirmed to our correspondent yesterday, after US President Donald Trump raised his case with counterpart Xi Jinping. Ezra Jin is the founder of Zion Church, one of China’s unregistered churches that [&h...
The World Bank will phase out its lending to China by 2031, according to the organisation’s new country partnership framework, a source familiar with the matter told our correspondent yesterday. The source confirmed an earlier report of the development by the Financial Times. “China has made significant development advances over the past sever...
•Astronauts for China’s Shenzhou-23 space mission Lai Ka-ying (L), Zhu Yangzhu (C) and Zhang Zhiyuan (R) China launched its Shenzhou-23 mission yesterday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing’s ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030. The Long March […]
•Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China on May 19 for a two-day visit, hot on the heels of US President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing, the Kremlin said today. During the trip, the Russian leader will discuss with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping how to “further strengthen the comprehensive partnership and strategic [&he...
•China’s President Xi Jinping (R) and US President Donald Trump in Beijing US President Donald Trump yesterday warned Taiwan against declaring formal independence after a visit to China, whose leader, Xi Jinping, had pressed him not to support the self-ruling island. Trump ended a state visit claiming to have made “fantastic” trade deals, alth...
•China’s President Xi Jinping (L) looks at US President Donald Trump as they attend a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, today US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a “good” meeting today in which they agreed that the Strait of Hormuz “must remain open”, the […]

