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If Xi Jinping is serious about the country’s role as global peacemaker he must persuade Kim to calm down
North Korea’s scary test launch of a newly developed, solid-fuel, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile caused on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido last week. It also added a note of urgency to today’s in Japan’s hot-spring resort of Karuizawa, where the Pyongyang regime’s escalating threats will be high on the agenda. Even so, the key to the North Korea conundrum may lie hundreds of miles away, in Beijing.
Two questions will dominate G7 deliberations. Why is Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, deliberately ratcheting up tensions with South Korea, Japan and the US, their ultimate protector? And what can the allies do in response? Hailing the launch, the latest in more than 100 tests since last year, Kim gave an insight into his paranoid thinking. The new missile would “reinforce our nuclear counter-attack” and induce “the enemy to give up its idle strategy”, he said. Until then, he promised only “”.

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Leaked U.S. military documents include Pentagon assessments that Taiwan may be poorly equipped to hold off a Chinese air attack, The Washington Post reports. The assessments say Chinese air power ...

Leaked U.S. military documents include Pentagon assessments that Taiwan may be poorly equipped to hold off a Chinese air attack, The Washington Post reports. The assessments say Chinese air power ...

China had been Ukraine’s top trade partner, importing barley, corn and arms. Now, Russia’s war raises the question: Is there still a relationship?

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Secretary of state to break ground on new US embassy while Hanoi reluctant to antagonise its powerful neighbour
China has reportedly refused to reschedule a visit from the US secretary of state, as Antony Blinken kicked off a trip to Vietnam, a crucial South-east Asian trade partner that Washington is looking to bolster ties with as it works to balance Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the region and beyond.
In his first visit to the country as the top US diplomat, Blinken will meet with top Vietnamese officials, including Vietnam’s general secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong, and formally break ground on Saturday on a new US embassy compound in Hanoi. On Sunday he travels to Japan for a meeting of the Group of Seven wealthy nations.

Brazil has been reluctant about choosing sides in the war, as its new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seeks to rebuild the country’s ties with Beijing.

The Chinese adaptation of classic Japanese family drama "Hachiko" opened Friday in a limited theatrical release in North America. The film is being released by CMC Pictures with English subtitles in ...

When news broke Friday that Snehal Desai had been named the Center Theatre Group’s first leader of color, his friends and colleagues in the Los Angeles theater world rejoiced. It’s been a struggle to ...

Classified documents allegedly leaked by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira reveal that US intelligence officials were aware of as many as four other Chinese spy balloons apart ...