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August 25, 2023

Asia

’Pleading for money’: Chinese economy in trouble as Xi Jinping’s leadership falters

Retail sales are down, exports are slipping and local governments are pleading for cash. China is in trouble – but will it drag us down with it?

By Editors Desk

Even the Chinese public doubts Chairman Xi Jinping’s ability to avoid a crisis. Picture: Florence Lo/Pool/AFP

August 23, 2023

World

Expansion and a common currency on agenda at BRICS summit

Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid.

By Editors Desk

August 23, 2023

World

China’s Xi unexpectedly skipped a key BRICS event. No one is saying why

The Chinese leader has flown out to South Africa for the summit but asked his commerce minister to read out his remarks.

By Editors Desk

Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, with other world leaders at the BRICS summit. Pic: AP

August 22, 2023

World

Size, population, GDP: The BRICS nations in numbers

Officials from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gather in Johannesburg on Tuesday for a three-day BRICS summit, a five-nation club comprising 40% of the world’s population and more than 25 percent of global GDP that positions itself as an economic counterweight to the West. Almost 15 years on from the group’s founding, FRANCE 24 takes a look at the BRICS nations in numbers and their relative weight in the global economy.

By Editors Desk

Several countries have applied to join the BRICS club of nations, currently made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. © Studio graphique France Médias Monde

August 18, 2023

Asia

Biden declares ‘new era’ of partnership with South Korea and Japan

The meeting marked the beginning of what the White House hopes will be an extended stretch of three-way engagement

By Editors Desk

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speak during a news conference at the Camp David Trilateral Summit on Aug. 18. (Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images)

August 09, 2023

Asia

China’s Economy Faces Yet Another Threat: Falling Prices

A deepening slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy has now raised fears of deflation, which could be crippling for heavily indebted China.

By Editors Desk

A construction site of a residential property development in Nanchang, China, in May.Credit...Qilai Shen for The New York Times

August 07, 2023

Asia

A sports star. An actor. Now a top diplomat: Why do China's public figures keep disappearing?

The case of China's top foreign affairs diplomat Qin Gang, a disappeared 'wolf-warrior'

By Editors Desk

(FILES) China's former Foreign Minister Qin Gang waves as he arrives for a press conference at the Media Center of the National People's Congress in Beijing on March 7, 2023.

August 03, 2023

World

Two US Navy sailors charged with spying for China

Two US Navy sailors in California have been arrested on charges of providing sensitive military information to China, authorities said Thursday.

By Editors Desk

GETTY IMAGES / One of the suspects served on the USS Essex, shown here near San Diego in a file photo from 2012

July 25, 2023

Asia

‘Instability’: Xi under threat from shock move

One of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s top officials, who vanished for weeks, has been sacked for no reason sending

By Editors Desk

FILES -US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's then Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands in Beijing on June 18, 2023. It was as one of Mr Qins last meetings in the role. Photo by LEAH MILLIS / POOL / AFP

July 25, 2023

Asia

Qin Gang: China removes foreign minister after unexplained absence

China has removed Qin Gang as foreign minister less than seven months after he was appointed to the post.

By Editors Desk

REUTERS | Qin Gang is one of the most high-level officials in the Chinese Communist Party to have been absent for this long

July 05, 2023

Asia

Taiwan’s Impossible Choice: Be Ukraine or Hong Kong

Taiwan draws two opposite lessons from Russian invasion of Ukraine

By Editors Desk

Taiwan reservists in reserve military training this year. People in Taiwan are following the war in Ukraine, but drawing different conclusions. CHIANG YING-YING/ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 21, 2023

World

China hits back at Biden over ‘dictator Xi’ comments

The US president’s remarks are “absurd” and amount to “an open political provocation,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said

By Editors Desk

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning. © AP Photo/Andy Wong

June 21, 2023

World

Biden calls China’s Xi a ‘dictator’

The jibe comes just one day after America’s top diplomat concluded a rare visit to the People’s Republic

By Editors Desk

June 20, 2023

Asia

Anxious neighbours sigh in relief as US and China talk

If China's neighbours, near and far, could have sent Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden a text in the last 48 hours, it would probably have been some version of: "Can you two please sort things out?"

By Editors Desk

GETTY IMAGES / Xi Jinping and Joe Biden last met in Bali on the sidelines of the G20 summit in late 2022

June 18, 2023

World

Three key priorities in crucial US-China talks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's first visit to China on Sunday comes nearly five months after a major rupture in relations over a Chinese spy balloon.

By Editors Desk

REUTERS / Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden smiled for the cameras at the G20 summit in November

June 18, 2023

Asia

Antony Blinken begins talks in Beijing during high-stakes visit to China

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing at the start of two days of talks with Chinese officials.

By Editors Desk

REUTERS / Antony Blinken, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday, is the highest-ranking member of President Joe Biden's administration to visit China

June 14, 2023

Science & Environnement

Covid patient zero ‘identified’

A bombshell report has unmasked the Wuhan individual believed to be Covid’s infamous patient zero, a move that’s been described as a “game changer”.

By Editors Desk

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP

May 31, 2023

Africa

South Africa considering BRICS change of venue – Reuters

Officials are reportedly discussing the idea of moving the upcoming summit to China due to ICC charges against Vladimir Putin

By Editors Desk

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a BRICS event in Brasilia, Brazil, 2019. © Sergio Lima / AFP

May 21, 2023

World

Trump victory would be ‘the end of Ukraine’ – Clinton

The former candidate also predicted that the ex-president will pull the US out of NATO if re-elected

By Editors Desk

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a panel at the Vital Voices Global Festival on May 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. © Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images / AFP

May 15, 2023

Asia

China jails 78-year-old US citizen for life on spying charges

China sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison Monday on spying charges.

By Editors Desk

A 3D illustration illustrating the US-China trade war by superimposing the countries' flags over stacks of cargo freight containers. © wildpixel, Getty Images/iStockphoto