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‘Don’t help a villain’: China urges Japan not to follow US’ lead on tech isolation
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang told his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi on April 2, 2023, to not follow the United States’ lead in trying to contain China. Qin was commenting during Hayashi’s visit to China, the first by a Japanese foreign minister in three years. Just days before Hayashi arrived in Beijing, Tokyo announced plans to…
Honduras establishes diplomatic relations with Beijing after cutting ties with Taiwan
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Honduras and mainland China announced on March 26, 2023, the formal establishment of diplomatic relations, hours after the Central American country officially cut ties it had with Taiwan since 1941. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen described as “regrettable” the Honduran decision to break diplomatic relations with Taipei in favour of Beijing. Honduras was the latest nation from…
New Zealand joins US and UK to curb TikTok on government phones over security concerns
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube New Zealand became the latest country to ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok from government-linked devices, due to cybersecurity concerns. New Zealand said on March 17, 2023, it would ban the popular app from all devices with access to the country’s parliamentary network by the end of the month. Concerns have grown globally that Beijing may…
China-Russia ties: Beijing benefits from 'no limits' friendship
China maintains it is neutral in terms of the Ukraine War and has called for dialogue to end the conflict. However, Beijing has also reaffirmed its ‘no limits’ friendship with Moscow. Analysts say it is even providing technology to Russia’s military and is benefitting from the crisis, particularly when it comes to the import of Russian gas and oil. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu reports now…
Beijing insists ‘balloon does not belong to America’ as US recovers wreckage from sea
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The US Navy has released the first photos of its teams recovering debris from a Chinese balloon that was shot down off the US east coast on February 7, 2023. As Washington continued the retrieval operations, Beijing said the unmanned airship “does not belong to the US” and reiterated the military response to its flight over…
‘A clear overreaction’: Beijing rebukes Washington for shooting down Chinese balloon
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The United States military shot down a Chinese balloon that Washington said was being used for surveillance, a move that drew a swift rebuke from Beijing. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Washington’s downing of the device on February 4, 2023, was a “clear overreaction” over what Beijing described as a civilian weather-monitoring balloon that had…
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