[ad_1] New Delhi: On the diplomatic front, China has wasted no time since emerging from Covid isolation. In the last few months, President Xi Jinping has met Russia’s Vladimir Putin; hosted several world leaders, including Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who arrived this week; sent a top envoyContinue Reading
[ad_1] Beijing: China on Wednesday waded into controversy over French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments in which he called for greater “European sovereignty” by not following the US policy over China and Taiwan. “The question we need to answer, as Europeans, is the following: Is it in our interest to accelerateContinue Reading
[ad_1] BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is heading to China to represent Berlin, but she’ll likely have more explaining to do about Paris in the wake of French President Emmanuel Macron’s explosive comments on Taiwan. As Baerbock embarked on her two-day visit Wednesday evening, officials in Berlin wereContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. There’s an Emmanuel Macron-shaped shadow hovering over this week’s U.S. visit by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. In contrast to the French president — who in an interview with POLITICO tried to put some distance between the U.S.Continue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — China and other powerful countries need to step up to help steer the world away from a potentially “catastrophic” hunger crisis this year, the new head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme said. Cindy McCain,Continue Reading
[ad_1] Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he would increase security at G7 meetings taking place in his country, a day after a man threw a smoke bomb at him at a campaign event. Kishida was campaigning Saturday ahead of next week’s by-elections for the Japanese parliament when an explosiveContinue Reading
[ad_1] LONDON — Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss will take a not-so-subtle swipe at Emmanuel Macron over his attempt to build bridges with Beijing. In a Wednesday morning speech to the Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C. Truss will argue that too many in the West have “appeasedContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Stop driving Europe away from the United States, dismayed central and eastern European officials fumed on Tuesday as French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments continued to ripple across the Continent. Macron jolted allies in the EU’s eastern half afterContinue Reading
[ad_1] Donald Trump accused French President Emmanuel Macron of sucking up to China late Wednesday. “You’ve got this crazy world that’s blowing up and the United States have absolutely no say,” Trump, who became the first U.S. president — former or current — to be indicted last month, told FoxContinue Reading
[ad_1] That’s creating new tensions with the U.S. and its Western allies that will be on display as top finance officials gather this week in Washington for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. The U.S. is pressing China to provide more debt relief in what will beContinue Reading