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  • China Invites 5 Countries As Guests For BRICS Summit

    CHINA, 2017/09/04 China has invited Egypt, Guinea, Tajikistan, Mexico and Thailand as guest nations for the upcoming BRICS summit but clarified that the invitation is not an attempt to expand the group under its 'BRICS Plus'border. China will host the BRICS summit in Xiamen city from September 3 to 5 in which leaders of the five nations will participate, inclunding Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "We need to have some further explanation about the BRICS Plus to help people better understand the rationale of this idea," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing, addressing the media about BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit.

  • Xi Jinping opens BRICS Summit in Xiamen, asks members to shelve differences

    CHINA, 2017/09/04 Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday asked BRICS members to shelve their differences and accommodate each other’s concerns by enhancing mutual trust and strategic communication, as he opened the 9th annual summit of the five member emerging economies. Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the opening ceremony of BRICS Summit in Xiamen called for mutual trust between member nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The opening ceremony of the three-day BRICS summit started with Brics Business Council amid a downpour triggered by typhoon Mawar which had caused widespread disruption to the summit preparations and the city’s traffic. The typhoon as well caused considerable disruption to the flights.

  • US Vice President Mike Pence To Visit Georgia

    GEORGIA, 2017/07/08 US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Georgia in late July, according to the White Home reported. In Tbilisi, the Vice President will meet with President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, part others, and visit U.S. and Georgian troops participating in the Noble Partner exercise. As part of his diplomatic tour in Europe, Pence will as well visit Estonia and Montenegro.

  • Celebrations across Canada mark country's 150th birthday

    CANADA, 2017/07/02 Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has kicked off celebrations to mark the country’s 150th birthday amid heavy security as a lot of citizens braved incessant rain and long delays to reach the major site in the country’s capital. About 500,000 people were expected to be in Ottawa for the long-anticipated Canada Day festivities, which features a large outdoor celebration in front of the national parliament, complete with acrobats, fireworks and musicians, inclunding Bono and other members of Irish rock band U2. Trudeau, accompanied by Prince Charles, shook hands with some of the thousands of revellers who converged in Ottawa for the festivities.

  • US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew visits Israel for talks

    ISRAEL, 2016/11/02 U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew visited Israel for talks on the Iran nuclear transaction and other issues. The visit on Sunday came just weeks next the United States and Israel signed a $38 billion defense assistance transaction.

  • Obama to Attend G20 Summit in China

    UNITED STATES, 2016/09/06 The White Home announced that U.S. President Barack Obama is to travel to China and Laos in early September, during which he will attend the G20 summit and conduct his initial visit to Laos. Obama's September 2-9 trip will "highlight the President's ongoing commitment to the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation inclunding the U.S. Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific," the White Home said in a statement. In China, Obama will participate in his final G20 summit, "where he will emphasize the need to continue building on the evolution made since 2009 in advancing strong, sustainable, and balanced world economic increase," the statement said.

  • High-level Argentinean Delegation Leaves for China to Attend G20 Summit

    CHINA, 2016/09/06 Argentine President Mauricio Macri headed a high-level delegation and departed for China to attend the G20 Summit to be held on September 4-5 in the city of Hangzhou, according to an official statement. The team, which as well includes Argentina's Minister of Economy and Finance Alfonso Prat-Gay, Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra and Deputy Minister of Public Finance Pedro Lacoste, intends to show that Argentina is open for business from foreign investors. On September 5, Macri will give his initial speech to the summit. The same day, both finance officials will attend the 3rd plenary session on promoting international and trade and investment , during which Macri will make his second address.

  • China can show leadership at G20 summit to boost confidence in global economy

    CHINA, 2016/08/07 As the host of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in its eastern city of Hangzhou next month, China has the opportunity to show its leadership in resisting protectionism, spurring increase and boosting people's confidence in world economy, a U.S. expert has said. "I think on trade we're in a very significant time because I think there're strong protectionist pressures in the world," said Robert Kahn, a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, D.C. "Here's what China can play a very significant role in showing the leadership, saying (that) we need to resist these pressures and we need to do it in a way that's realistic and smart," Kahn told Xinhua in a recent interview.

  • China can show leadership at G20 summit to boost confidence in global economy: U.S. expert

    CHINA, 2016/08/07 As the host of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in its eastern city of Hangzhou next month, China has the opportunity to show its leadership in resisting protectionism, spurring increase and boosting people's confidence in world economy, a U.S. expert has said. "I think on trade we're in a very significant time because I think there're strong protectionist pressures in the world," said Robert Kahn, a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, D.C. "Here's what China can play a very significant role in showing the leadership, saying (that) we need to resist these pressures and we need to do it in a way that's realistic and smart," Kahn told Xinhua in a recent interview.

  • Obama Japan Trip 2016: US President Calls For End To Nuclear Weapons On Historic Hiroshima Trip

    JAPAN, 2016/05/28 Next laying a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a brief speech, “The memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must at no time fade.” “Death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” Obama said. During his historic visit to Hiroshima over 70 years next the Japanese city became the target of an American atomic bomb, Obama reiterated his call for a “world without nuclear weapons.”
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