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This week, two of the original members of Australia’s 1971 “ping-pong diplomacy” team are returning to Beijing to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

There was some worrying news for Volodymyr Zelensky this week when the US House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker. Mike Johnson, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, has consistently opposed US funding for the Ukrainian war effort. Now he’s the second most powerful man in US politics behind the…

The move follows Beijing’s move to impose a national security law following the 2019 mass protests for democracy.

The third Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing recently attracted fewer heads of state or senior officials than the previous forums in 2017 and 2019. There were 11 European presidents and prime ministers at the 2019 forum. But last week’s forum attracted only three.

With China resisting U.S. pleas to manage superpower competition, other countries should step in.

Visit takes place amid Israel-Hamas war and escalating tensions in the disputed South China Sea.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the Hamas attack had been traumatic for Israel but that it also was a disaster for the Palestinian people. "Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people," Macrontold reporters alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, in the West Bank, following a meeting…

Beijing’s claim is embodied by its nine-dash line that an international court rejected more than seven years ago.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will come to Washington for a three-day visit starting Thursday