The Latest Breaking News from Xi Jinping

The U.S. government has granted an arms package worth $11.15 billion to Taiwan in a move that is bound to fuel the tensions in U.S.-Taiwan-China relations.

When leaders of “the Quad” last met in September 2024, host and then-President Joe Biden declared the partnership between the United States, India, Australia and Japan to be “more strategically aligned than ever before.”

The UK, Australia, New Zealand, the EU and Taiwan have all condemned Lai’s conviction, while Donald Trump says he is saddened by the Hong Kong court’s verdict and that he has raised the case with Xi

American president has offered more muted support for Lai’s cause since promising to ‘100 per cent get him out’

Yvette Cooper says the Foreign Office had summoned China’s top diplomatic representative to the UK to express unhappiness over the guilty verdict

When French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to China in early December for his fourth state visit, the itinerary began with the expected formalities. There was a red carpet reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and high-level talks with President Xi Jinping on trade, technology and Ukraine.

Mr Lai is a pro-democracy activist who founded the now-defunct Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily.

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