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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Chinese Premier Li Qiang signed agreements on trade Thursday, while also discussing such issues as human rights in China and New Zealand's interest in joining efforts under the AUKUS defense partnership between the United States, Australia and Britain, Luxon said. After talks with Li, whose visit to Wellington marked the first by a Chinese premier to New Zealand in seven years, Luxon said at a joint conference with the premier that they discussed the two countries' significant economic relationship and inked agreements, including those on export...
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Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said Wednesday that his government is open to any ideas that Malaysia may have on a high-speed railway connecting Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, a project Malaysia is hoping to revive after it was previously scrapped by the two countries. "We are open to hearing from Malaysia if there are proposals on the High-Speed Rail as well and whatever the new ideas are, we will keep an open mind and we will discuss it in the right spirit of taking our relationship forward," Wong said at a press conference during his first visit as Singaporean leader to Malaysia. In 20...
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Signs that North Korea is making preparations for a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as this week were confirmed at a Pyongyang airport, with planes completely cleared from the tarmac, according to a report Wednesday based on satellite imagery. NK News, a website that provides news and analysis on North Korea, said the removal of planes is rare and normally associated with visits by a foreign leader, but it could be intended to "make room for Putin's advance team." The Russian leader plans to visit North Korea and Vietnam in the next few weeks, Russian newspaper Vedomosti rep...
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The United States and 13 other countries participating in an economic initiative for the Indo-Pacific region inked agreements on two of the initiative's three remaining pillars -- promoting clean energy and implementing proper taxation -- at their ministerial talks held in Singapore on Thursday. These areas are among the four pillars of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, known as IPEF, which the United States launched in May 2022 as an apparent counter to China's rise. An agreement on supply chain resilience, another pillar, was signed in November and took effect in February. The Clean Econo...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to continue the country's development of military spy satellites despite Monday's failure to put another into orbit, saying the possession of space reconnaissance capabilities is "inevitable" to protect Pyongyang's sovereignty, according to state-run media. During his visit Tuesday to the Academy of Defense Sciences to mark the 60th anniversary of its founding, Kim said the recent satellite launch failed "due to the self-destruct system" triggered by "an abnormality in the first stage engine," according to the official Korean Central News Agency. He ...
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Business organizations from Japan, South Korea and China decided Monday to set up a working group to study economic cooperation in the private sector after their nations agreed to deepen economic ties at a trilateral summit in Seoul. The "Business Summit" was held by the Japan Business Federation, also known as Keidanren, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. The organizations said in a joint statement, "Growing uncertainties in the global economic environment have triggered the necessity for a joint trilateral response and ...
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Japanese, South Korean and Chinese leaders are likely to agree Monday to work together in a wide range of fields, such as people-to-people exchanges and economic cooperation, at their first trilateral summit in more than four years. Following their meeting, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Chinese Premier Li Qiang are expected to issue a joint statement underscoring the importance of improved relations among the three Asian countries. With the regional security environment becoming more severe amid North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, the f...
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he asked China's Premier Li Qiang in talks Sunday for an immediate lifting of its ban on Japanese seafood products, imposed after the discharge of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Kishida also told reporters after his first formal bilateral meeting with Li that China was asked to release a Japanese citizen who has been detained for alleged espionage as soon as possible. On the security front, Kishida said he conveyed Japan's "serious concern" about China's military expansion, adding that Japan believes stabilit...
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China said Wednesday it has imposed sanctions on 12 U.S. companies and their 10 executives in response to American arms sales to Taiwan, announcing its measures against Washington for the third straight day following the inauguration of the island's new leader. The 12 firms include units of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. The measures include freezing their assets in China and banning their senior executives from entering the Asian country, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. On Tuesday, Beijing banned former U.S. lawmaker Mike Gallagher from entry into China and froze his domest...
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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her Thai counterpart Maris Sangiampongsa agreed Wednesday that the two nations will strengthen bilateral business ties and work together in other fields, the Foreign Ministry said. During their talks in Tokyo, Kamikawa was quoted by her ministry as telling Maris that Japan hopes to speed up negotiations toward an early conclusion of a bilateral social security deal aimed at improving business conditions for those moving between Japan and Thailand. The deal is intended to aggregate the social security coverage for individuals who live or work between ...
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