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News of the rapprochement between long-time regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran sent shock waves through the Middle East and dealt a symbolic blow to Israel's prime minister.

Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after years of tensions.

In his first news conference since taking office, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang lashed out at the United States over deteriorating bilateral relations and Washington's support for Taiwan.

China's Foreign Affairs Director Wang Yi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, reaffirming the two allies' "rock-solid" relationship, according to spokesman Wang Wenbin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that China has signed off on a meeting in Moscow between him and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

Russia and China are showcasing their deepening ties in Moscow meetings others are watching for signs that Beijing might offer the Kremlin stronger support for its war in Ukraine.

Trade between China and Russia has increased over the past year, especially with Chinese purchases of Russian oil and gas.

A top Chinese official will meet with Russian officials in Moscow on Tuesday, just as the U.S. has said it fears China may soon agree to send arms to Russia.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief in the Russian capital

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy started off the three-day forum with a message of urgency, saying that "we need to hurry up."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi in a "confrontational" meeting in Munich that the spy balloon was "unacceptable," but "there was no apology."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China's top diplomat in the first high-level contact between the U.S. and China since the U.S. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a top Chinese diplomat in Germany on Saturday two weeks after the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi met on Saturday in what was the first face-to-face engagement since the spy balloon drama.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discusses the potential meeting between Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with China's top diplomat in the first high-level contact between the two countries since the U.S. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago.

China's top diplomat Wang Yi on Saturday said the U.S. response to the balloon incident was "hysterical" and "absurd," accusing the U.S. of violating norms.

China's top diplomat is in Paris, the first stop on a tour of Europe that comes amid rising tensions between the United States and China after the American downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon.

A huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon is sailing across the U.S. The spectacle drew severe Pentagon accusations of spying on Friday, while sending some excited or alarmed Americans outside with binoculars.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has defended what he says is his country’s position of impartiality on the war in Ukraine and signaled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the coming year.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended his country's position on the war in Ukraine on Sunday and signaled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the coming year. Wang, speaking by video to a conference in the Chinese capital, also blamed America for the deterioration in relations between the world's two largest economies, saying that China has “firmly rejected the United States' erroneous China policy.” China has pushed back against Western pressure on trade, technology, human rights and its claims to a broad swath of the western Pacific, accusing the U.S. of bullying.

President Joe Biden’s administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as the Chinese president begins a third, norm-breaking term as Communist Party leader.

The Taliban claims that Afghanistan is secure enough to bring back major projects that were halted due to decades of war, and start rebuilding its economy.

The Taliban say there is enough security across Afghanistan to restart major economic projects, despite attacks rocking the country since the group seized power more than a year ago

The Taliban said Wednesday there is enough security across Afghanistan to restart major economic projects that stopped due to decades of war, despite a slew of attacks rocking the country since the group seized power more than a year ago. The Taliban have struggled in their transition from insurgency and warfare to governing amid an economic downturn and the international community withholding official recognition. Foreign aid stopped when the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021.

In meeting after meeting in Tokyo, Vice President Kamala Harris has emphasized the U.S. commitment to regional security.

China reiterated its claim on Taiwan to the United Nations on Saturday saying that anyone who stands in the way of that pledge will be "crushed by the wheels of history."

China has underscored its commitment to its claim on Taiwan.

China underscored its commitment Saturday to its claim to Taiwan, telling world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its determination to reunify with the self-governing island would be “crushed by the wheels of history.” “Only when China is fully reunified can there be true peace across the Taiwan Strait,” Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, said at the U.N. General Assembly. China vehemently defends its claim on Taiwan, which separated from the mainland after a 1949 civil war and now functions with its own government.

The Biden administration is ramping up diplomatic efforts to press China to end provocative actions against Taiwan and keep it from active support for Russia's war against Ukraine.

The tide of international opinion appears to have decisively shifted against Russia, as a number of non-aligned countries joined the United States and its allies in condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine and its threats to the principles of the international rules-based order.

A U.S. coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in the Solomon Islands.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are marking the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

Former President Trump is under investigation by the Justice Department for allegedly removing presidential records from the White House.

China says it is extending threatening military exercises surrounding Taiwan that have disrupted shipping and air traffic and substantially raised concerns about the potential for conflict.

China said Monday it was extending threatening military exercises surrounding Taiwan that have disrupted shipping and air traffic and substantially raised concerns about the potential for conflict in a region crucial to global trade. The exercises would include anti-submarine drills, apparently targeting U.S. support for Taiwan in the event of a potential Chinese invasion, according to social media posts from the eastern leadership of China’s ruling Communist Party’s military arm, the People’s Liberation Army. The military has said the exercises involving missile strikes, warplanes and ship movements crossing the midline of the Taiwan Strait dividing the sides were a response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island last week.

Bangladesh has sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar during a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who promised better trade ties, investment and support for infrastructure development in the South Asian nation.

Bangladesh on Sunday sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar during a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who promised better trade ties, investment and support for infrastructure development in the South Asian nation. China had used its influence in Myanmar to broker a November 2017 agreement to repatriate about 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled persecution in Myanmar in August that year. Despite attempts to send them back, the refugees refused, fearing danger in Myanmar, which was exacerbated by the military takeover last year.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says China should not hold talks on important global matters such as the climate crisis “hostage,” after Beijing cut off contacts with Washington in retaliation for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this week.

China launched military exercises including missile strikes in Japan's economic zone following House Speaker Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says China’s military exercises aimed at Taiwan, including missiles fired into Japan’s exclusive economic zone, represent a “significant escalation” and that he has urged Beijing to back down.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is stressing his country’s efforts to strengthen ties with Southeast Asian countries at a meeting with their foreign ministers, which comes as Beijing seeks to expand its influence in the region.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is heading to Africa, saying she is going to focus on how the United State can help Uganda, Ghana and Cape Verde deal with the food crisis that has hit the continent particularly hard — not to compete with China and Russia.

China is gearing up for five days of "necessary" military exercises following Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan.

Top Southeast Asian diplomats meeting in Cambodia’s capital are intensifying efforts to stop the escalating violence in Myanmar.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to Asia and Africa as the U.S. and rivals China and Russia intensify their battle for global influence.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on China to comply with a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated its vast territorial claims in the South China Sea.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is criticizing Southeast Asian nations for not doing enough to press Myanmar's military government to return the country to the path of democracy following last year's power seizure.

China's support for Russia's war in Ukraine is complicating U.S.-Chinese relations at an already difficult time, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Chinese counterpart.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told his Chinese counterpart that China’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine is complicating U.S.-Chinese relations at a time when they are already beset by rifts and enmity over numerous other issues.

China’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine is complicating U.S.-Chinese relations at a time when they are already beset by rifts and enmity over numerous other issues, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Chinese counterpart on Saturday. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi blamed the U.S. for the downturn in relations and said that American policy has been derailed by what he called a misperception of China as a threat. “If such threat-expansion is allowed to grow, U.S. policy toward China will be a dead end with no way out.”

Philippine officials say the country’s new president has tested positive for the coronavirus after taking an antigen test

Australia and New Zealand’s prime ministers have agreed that security concerns regarding China’s expanding influence must be discussed at a meeting of western Pacific leaders.

China has demanded the U.S. cease military “collusion” with Taiwan during a virtual meeting between the joint chiefs of staff from the two sides.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on on the sidelines of a G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. This photo shows the two men in a 2021 meeting in Beijing, China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China will continue to uphold an "objective and fair" stance on the Russia-Ukraine crisis while continuing to support peace talks in order to end the crisis. Wang met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday, on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry on Friday. Wang also says China will also continue to pursue President Xi Jinping's vision for global security and will work with all parties to ensure it is met.

Deeply divided top diplomats from the world's richest and largest developing nations have failed to find common ground over Russia's war in Ukraine and its global impacts.

China is calling the United States “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development," continuing its sharp rhetoric in response to U.S. accusations of Chinese spying and threats to the international order.

Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for talks bound to be dominated by the conflict in Ukraine despite an agenda focused on global cooperation and food and energy security.

China has launched a scathing attack on the U.S. and NATO, days before a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

China launched a scathing attack on the U.S. and NATO on Wednesday, days before a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s comments underscore the increasingly fractious relationship, along with China’s increasingly confrontational approach to foreign relations that heatedly rejects criticism. At last week’s NATO summit in Spain, Blinken accused China of “seeking to undermine the rules-based international order.”

Foreign ministers from the world’s largest nations are looking to address Russia's war in Ukraine and its impact on global energy and food security when they meet in Indonesia this week.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will see his Chinese counterpart this week at a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting that may well exacerbate divides over Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Island nations have grown skilled at playing larger powers against each other. This leverage will be important as they face the existential threat of global warming.

A top State Department official says the American diplomatic push aimed at countering China’s increasing influence in the Asia-Pacific region appears to be paying dividends, with many nations showing a willingness to partner with the United States.

A top State Department official has met with Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila, part of an ongoing diplomatic outreach in the Asia-Pacific region by Washington to try and blunt growing Chinese influence.

The foreign ministers of Australia and China were both making their final stops Friday on what has become an island-hopping diplomatic duel in the South Pacific.

Australia and China are continuing their tit-for-tat diplomatic rivalry in the Pacific as the foreign ministers from each country pay separate visits to island nations.

The Pacific Island nations didn't sign on to China's new agreement but Wang Yi's trip definitely deepened relations in the South Pacific region.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Tonga on Tuesday as he continued his regional island-hopping tour a day after failing to ink an ambitious deal with 10 South Pacific nations.

Beijing's hopes to developing a marine plan for fisheries holding police training fell short over some countries' concerns over increasing geopolitical tensions and threatening regional stability.

China has fallen short on its bold plan for 10 Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries.

For Georgina Matilda, working for Chinese infrastructure company China Railway means that she can put food on the table for her children. “I think Chinese is good coming in Fiji,” said another Fijian, Miliane Rokolita. The welcoming attitude by many in Fiji and elsewhere in the South Pacific comes as China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi sweeps through on an island-hopping tour amid growing international concerns about Beijing’s military and financial ambitions in the region.

China’s foreign minister has met with the leaders of Samoa on the third stop of an island-hopping tour aimed at deepening China’s ties with Pacific nations.

When China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands in April it raised concerns from the U.S. and its allies that Beijing may be seeking a military outpost in the South Pacific, an area of traditional American naval dominance.

China’s foreign minister is visiting the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati, where the future of a vast fishing ground is at stake.

Australia was scrambling to counter the move by sending its own Foreign Minister Penny Wong to Fiji to shore up support in the Pacific.

Australia's foreign minister is in Fiji as her Chinese counterpart travels the region offering a 10-nation trade and security deal.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and a 20-strong delegation have arrived in the Solomon Islands at the start of an eight-nation tour that comes amid growing concerns about Beijing’s military and financial ambitions in the South Pacific region.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting South Pacific nations amid concerns over Beijing's growing military and diplomatic presence in the region.

China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a game-changing bid by China to wrest control of the region.

China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a “game-changing” bid by Beijing to wrest control of the region. A draft of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press shows that China wants to train Pacific police officers, team up on “traditional and non-traditional security" and expand law enforcement cooperation. China also wants to jointly develop a marine plan for fisheries — which would include the Pacific's lucrative tuna catch — increase cooperation on running the region's internet networks, and set up cultural Confucius Institutes and classrooms.

Australia’s new government has urged China to lift trade sanctions if it wants to reset a bilateral relationship that plumbed new depths under the previous administration.

The trip by the U.N.'s rights representative came as a new trove of documents detailing repression in Xinjiang was released.

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Japan is welcoming a new U.S. economic initiative for the Indo-Pacific that President Joe Biden is expected to roll out during a visit to Tokyo next week because it demonstrates American commitment to a regional economic order that is not just about market access.

China is holding military exercises in the disputed South China Sea coinciding with U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to South Korea and Japan.

Sri Lanka’s government said Tuesday it is discussing obtaining another loan from Beijing to repay some of its debt to Chinese banks after China told the nearly bankrupt island nation it was not in favor of restructuring existing loans. Sri Lanka has nearly $7 billion in foreign debt due for repayment this year and will need to repay $ 25 billion over the next five years. The economic crisis has brought weeks of protests across the country calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation.

It was the only democracy to abstain from supporting condemnation of Russia. Now New Delhi is welcoming Lavrov.

Russia's top diplomat, visiting Beijing for the 1st time during his country's war in Ukraine, said the allies would "move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world order."

There's been a "significant uptick" in Russian oil deliveries bound for India since March after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, industry observers say.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in New Delhi for a round of talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar and Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Indian counterpart and the national security adviser on Friday to expedite the disengagement of thousands of Indian and Chinese forces involved in a tense faceoff and occasional clashes along their disputed border, an Indian official said. A fierce brawl in June 2020 exploded into hand-to-hand combat with clubs, stones and fists that left 20 Indian soldiers dead. China said it lost four soldiers in the clash.

China doesn't want to take a position on Ukraine that could undermine Russia, said Scott Kennedy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

China could provide a major buffer to the Russian economy. But whether that's entirely in Beijing's interest to do is another matter.

Since Russia's attack on Ukraine, China has refused to call it an invasion and said it plans to maintain normal trade with both countries.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized Beijing's relationship with Moscow in a news conference just over a week after Russia's war on Ukraine began.

China’s Foreign Minister on Monday called Russia Beijing’s “most important strategic partner,” amid its continued refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine. Wang Yi said ties with Moscow constituted “one of the most crucial bilateral relationships in the world." China has broken with the U.S., Europe and others that have imposed sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.

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China has been carefully balancing between its burgeoning relationship with Moscow against a Western-led world order and its longstanding stated commitment to noninterference in other nations’ affairs.