international relations

"I fear that the climate for peacemaking and diplomacy will not improve in 2023"

SINGAPORE (July 20): Iran will sign a cooperation treaty with Southeast Asia at an upcoming meeting that will also be attended by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and North Korean officials, a Singaporean diplomat said.

SYDNEY (Jan 17): Multinational businesses keen for a slice of the world’s fastest-growing consumer market are finding they have to increasingly conform to China’s world view if they want to stay in Beijing’s good graces.

HANOI (May 30): Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has a tough task when he visits the White House this week: Convince President Donald Trump to advance trade ties that blossomed under the Obama administration.

TAIPEI (May 17): “Go west!” is the mantra Taiwanese companies lived by for the best part of three decades, turning China into their biggest trading partner. But with cross-strait relations at their worst in close to a decade, President Tsai Ing-wen is

HONG KONG (April 10): After predicting a “very difficult” encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Donald Trump emerged from their first meeting hailing “an outstanding relationship” between chiefs of the world’s biggest economies.

WASHINGTON (April 7): President Donald Trump began his first-ever meeting with the leader of the world’s second-largest economy on Thursday, the country he blames for stealing millions of US jobs and enabling North Korea’s march toward a nuclear missi

BEIJING (April 6): Nothing is supposed to go off script for President Xi Jinping in what is the equivalent of an election year in one-party China.