Trump says US-China trade talks ‘going very well’
AFP | President Donald Trump said Tuesday that trade talks with China are complex but are "going very well" and again indicated the March 1...
Russian arrests of foreign businessmen shocks Western investors
AFP | The arrest in Russia of prominent US and French investors on suspicion of fraud has sent shockwaves through Western business circles and sparked...
Russia’s RT fumes after Facebook blocks ‘wildly popular’ page
AFP | Facebook has blocked a popular page run by Russian state TV channel RT, the channel's editor said Monday, criticizing the move as an...
Huawei’s founder says world can’t live without it
AFP | The founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei has hit back at US efforts to blacklist the company, saying defiantly that the world cannot...
Russia, Turkey, Iran hail US Syria withdrawal
AFP | The leaders of Russia, Turkey, and Iran hailed the planned US withdrawal from Syria as they met for talks Thursday on how to...
Sweeten the China-Pakistan free trade agreement
Ali Hassan | The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) recently sent a set of recommendations emphasizing the need for the government to focus on the ‘Make...
Venezuela: Another black eye for Chinese economic diplomacy
AFP | China and Venezuela seemed like natural bedfellows: one is the planet's top crude-oil importer and the other possesses the world's largest reserves. But...
Re-education camp: China rejects Turkish claim of Uighur Muslim’s death
News Analysis | Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying has strongly refuted that a 57-year-old Uighur musician Abdurehim Heyit has died in the re-education camp...
Missing Uighurs’ kin demand ‘proof of life’ videos from China
AFP | Ethnic Uighurs have launched a global campaign to press China for video proof that their missing relatives are alive, turning the tables on...
Afghan ex-mujahideen remember Soviet defeat in ‘graveyard of empires’
AFP | The last time Abdul Karim saw Soviet forces he was a teenage mujahideen fighter shivering on an Afghan mountainside, clutching his Kalashnikov and...
‘Tired of fighting’: 30 years ago, Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan
AFP | On February 15, 1989, crowds of stunned onlookers watched the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan over the Friendship Bridge -- defeated after a...
Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence – James M Dorsey
James M Dorsey | In perhaps the most significant condemnation to date of China’s brutal crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its north-western province of Xinjiang....