US President Donald Trump blamed his hoarse voice on shouting at officials from a foreign country that sought to change a trade deal. He refused to name the nation and highlighted recent trade talks with China, including tariff reductions and postponed export controls.
Taiwan's Foreign Ministry expressed "serious concerns" after Singapore PM Lawrence Wong reaffirmed opposition to "Taiwanese independence" during talks with China's Premier Li Qiang. MOFA urged Singapore to respect Taiwan's sovereignty, stressing that the island's future "can only be determin
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he was "optimistic" about trade talks with China and confirmed that "President Trump is a 'go' on that" meeting with Xi Jinping at the APEC summit, despite rising tensions over Beijing's rare earth export restrictions.
Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will travel to Beijing on Monday to meet with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping. Separately, Afghanistan's interim Foreign Minister Ameer Khan Muttaqi is scheduled to arrive in China on May 20
US President Donald Trump on Sunday warned of new and significantly higher tariffs on Chinese goods if Beijing does not withdraw a recent 34 per cent retaliatory tariff hike, threatening to end all ongoing talks with China.
Highlighting the progress on border talks with China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that 75 per cent of disengagement problems with Beijing are sorted out; however, the two nations "still have some things to do."
On Friday, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb met with Pan Gongsheng, the governor of China's central bank, to discuss bilateral financial cooperation, according to a statement from the People's Bank of China.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of State Council meeting, in Astana today.
In his address at a democracy forum in Copenhagen on Tuesday, Lai in a pre-recorded video said, "I will not rule out dialogue with China on the principles of mutual respect, mutual benefits, and dignity," adding that such dialogue should be conducted "with no preconditions."
General Pande's remarks at his annual press conference on Thursday that "our attempt is to continue talks (with China) to go back to the status quo ante which existed in the middle of 2020" are a reminder that the Chinese continue to deny Indian troops access to 2,000 square kilometres of