Throughout Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, China has sidestepped the conflict, criticized it from the sidelines, accused Western countries of hypocrisy on Gaza and Xinjiang, and benefited from increasingly sympathetic attitudes in...
The Guardian’s Africa correspondent David Smith reports that China will soon send 700 combat...
Somini Sengupta at The New York Times reports that “China and Russia voted Thursday against...
After a year-long investigation, a United Nations panel handed a report to the UN Human Rights...
After the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians...
In February, Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) attempt to pressure the Assad regime’s forfeiture of power as violence escalated in the ongoing conflict in Syria. After the dual veto, the diplomatic...
Amid frustration at the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio—which The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts gloomily compared with a 1930s League of Nations assembly—a side meeting between Wen...
China and Russia have banded together to veto a UN Security Council Resolution calling for Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad to halt the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters. From CNN: Russia and China blocked efforts of...
The Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Africa has prompted widespread analysis of an escalating strategic competition between the world’s two most populous nations. From The Economist: For all its elephantine weight,...
After North Korea launched nuclear tests in May, the UN Security Council are imposing stricter searches on cargo entering and exiting North Korea. From the Times: The major powers, including the United States and China, agreed...
As China is getting pressed for the recent North Korean nuclear missile tests as well as having two American journalists being sentenced for reporting on refugees in China, a South Korea representative is going to Beijing. From...
From Singapore’s The Straits Times: Japan pressed China on Sunday to take a tough stance on North Korea, saying anything but a ‘strong’ UN Security Council resolution in response to last month’s nuclear...
According to Jan Eliasson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the Darfur region, negotiations aimed at ending the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have stalled and neither the Sudanese government nor the rebel...
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