Tag: China
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Pakistan capital in lockdown ahead of regional leaders’ meeting
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif welcomes Chinese Premier Li Qiang upon his arrival to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in Islamabad on Monday. — Reuters Pakistan’s capital was under strict security lockdown as Chinese Premier Li Qiang landed in the city on Monday ahead of a heads-of-government gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) this…
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Pakistan capital under security lockdown before regional SCO summit
Three-day public holiday declared in Islamabad as Chinese Premier Li Qiang visits for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting. Pakistan’s capital has been put under a strict security lockdown as Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrives for a four-day visit during which he will also preside over a regional summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Li’s…
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Pakistan capital Islamabad in lockdown ahead of SCO summit
Item 1 of 3 Pakistan Army soldiers stand guard at the Red Zone area, ahead of the arrival of Chinese Premier Li Qiang for a four-day bilateral visit and a heads-of-government gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in Islamabad, Pakistan October 14, 2024. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro [1/3]Pakistan Army soldiers stand guard at the Red Zone…
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Old theories offer new insight into global rivalry
LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters Breakingviews) – When thinking about global political and economic rivalries, it sometimes helps to dust off old theories. A hypothesis dating back to before World War One posited that future geopolitical strife would revolve around control of the vast island of Eurasia. One way to understand the current war in Ukraine,…
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Pakistan steps up security ahead of regional leaders’ meeting
Updated Oct 14, 2024, 04:26 PM Published Oct 14, 2024, 03:07 PM ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s capital was under strict security lockdown as Chinese Premier Li Qiang landed in the city on Monday ahead of a heads-of-government gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation this week. Li’s visit is the first by a Chinese premier to Pakistan…
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Opinion | India Can Do A Lot With BRICS – If It Doesn’t Let China Dominate
Among all BRICS leaders, it’s perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin who is waiting for this year’s summit, scheduled to be held on October 22-24 in Kazan, most eagerly. Last year, he skipped the summit in South Africa for fear of being arrested. In March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for…
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One Year After Oct. 7, American Voters Face Stark Foreign Policy Choice
Within minutes of Hamas jihadists breaching the Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, and commencing the largest slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Western leftists and other defenders of the genocidal Palestinian-Arab cause rallied around a talking point: “This did not occur in a vacuum.” The claim, blithely offered by armchair revolutionaries without…
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Chinese engineers killed in Pakistan worked for a power plant, says minister
Updated Oct 08, 2024, 09:02 PM Published Oct 08, 2024, 09:02 PM ISLAMABAD – Two Chinese nationals who were killed in an explosion near Pakistan’s Karachi international airport on Sunday worked for a power plant, Pakistan’s finance minister said on Tuesday. It was the most serious attack against Chinese nationals in Pakistan since a suicide…
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Working on a new transatlantic approach toward the Western Balkans
Report October 7, 2024 • 11:00 am ET Maja Piscevic and Ilva Tare This essay is part of the report “Transatlantic horizons: A collaborative US-EU policy agenda for 2025 and beyond,” which outlines an agenda for common action for the next US administration and European Commission. The bottom line The Western Balkans is a region neither…
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Iran-Israel War News Live Updates: Hezbollah fires rockets on Haifa after Israel pounds Beirut
07 Oct 2024 | 06:31:12 AM IST Portraits of Hassan Nasrallah are displayed amid destruction from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiya, outside of Beirut, Lebanon on Oct. 2, 2024. Before diplomats could draw up a detailed cease-fire proposal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of Israel, declared at the United Nations that Israel must “defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon”…
