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President Xi Jinping called Monday for China to play a bigger role in managing global affairs after Beijing scored a diplomatic coup as the host of talks that produced an agreement by Saudi Arabia and Iran to reopen diplomatic relations.

Speaking to the National Peoples' Congress, the president says China must ensure its military can safeguard the country's sovereignty, security and developmental interests, as their new premier takes a swipe at the US.

BEIJING - China's new premier warned Monday that the country's five-percent growth target for 2023 would not be "easy" to achieve, as its rubber-stamp parliament wrapped up over a week of meetings.

President Xi Jinping is calling for China to play a bigger role in managing global affairs after Beijing scored a diplomatic coup by hosting talks that produced an agreement by Saudi Arabia and Iran to reopen diplomatic relations

Western Australia's premier has confirmed he plans to visit Beijing in late-April to discuss the lucrative trade relationship between the two parties.

The PM’s determination to stay faithful to the ‘Indo-Pacific tilt’ is vague, while Russia is still the greatest threat

Rishi Sunak said he remained aware of the challenges posed by Beijing.

Beijing is following Vladimir Putin’s aggressive playbook. The US can counter the march of the autocrats, but only if it stops feeding their paranoia

CHINA’S foreign minister Qin Gang is not a man to mince his words. At a news conference last week during the annual session of what’s been…

The Iraqi government expressed its satisfaction with the signing of the Chinese-sponsored agreement to restore relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani received a telephone call from Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, to voice Tehran’s gratitude to Baghdad that had…

Bannon claimed Musk’s Shanghai ventures were ‘one hundred per cent controlled’ by Beijing