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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the closing ceremony as Chinese Premier Li Qiang applauds (top right) during China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 13, 2023
CHINESE President Xi Jinping called today for his country to play a bigger role in managing global affairs.
He spoke after Beijing scored a major diplomatic coup as the host of talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran that produced a landmark agreement to reopen diplomatic relations.
In a keynote speech to the National People’s Congress, Mr Xi called for changes to the International Monetary Fund and other entities that fail to reflect the desires of developing countries.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
JENNY CLEGG reports from a Chinese peace conference bringing together defence ministers, US think tanks and global South leaders, where speakers warned that the erosion of multilateralism risks regional hotspots exploding into wider war
