Chinese diplomacy: a school of ancient wisdom President Xi last visited Kazakhstan in July 2024 at the invitation of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Following the talks, the two countries signed more than 30 agreements covering trade, technical and economic cooperation, transport, infrastructure and engineering, energy, industry, agriculture, and education. As Aliya Musabekova, Chief Expert at

Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Kazakhstan for talks with Central Asian leaders, providing a counterpoint to a Group of Seven summit by visiting a vast region at the nexus of competing interests from Washington to Beijing. Xi, who’s making only his third overseas trip this year, is set to meet with Kazakh President

Ryan Hass is director of the John L. Thornton China Centre and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also a senior fellow at the think tank’s Centre for Asia Policy Studies. He is a former diplomat with a focus on China and served as a

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US President Donald Trump rejected a plan by Israel to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three US officials have told BBC’s US partner CBS News. Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that assassinating Khamenei was not a good idea, according to one official. The president has not commented publicly on the

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President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday. “Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do we’re not even talking about going after the political leadership,” said one of the sources, a senior US administration

Administration officials secured a deal that will give the president unusual influence over a private company, and could serve as a model for other deals.