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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping say they’ll keep in touch – and not much else

Big business boys, including Apple’s Tim Cook, pay big bucks to attend post-summit banquet with Chinese leader and give him standing ovation

Vincent Boland: The world cannot afford for US and China to be at loggerheads

The upcoming Apec summit presents an opportunity for Xi and Biden to approach relations with realism and sobriety

Lucinda Creighton: UN leader Guterres should stand down, and western leaders must support Israel

Israel has the right to defend itself against genocide and Israel’s allies should help it do that, while also offering refuge to Palestinians in Gaza

China’s president XI to skip G20 summit amid India tensions

India recently overtook China as the world’s most populous nation and the two countries are trade rivals

Germany presses China over Ukraine as leaders pledge to work together on climate

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Vincent Boland: Tipping point in China in the struggle to control the creature it unleashed

Xi Jinping may exude confidence, but his actions suggest something less than that with the recent banking purge following a tech clampdown as the party-state attempts to exert its authority over all sectors

Senator warns CCP response to protests could carry shades of Tiananmen Square

Fianna Fáil’s Malcolm Byrne fears surveillance of the largest protests since the 1989 massacre will lead to a similar brutal crackdown

Lucinda Creighton: The grand ‘deal’ between China’s leader and its citizens is fraying

China’s citizens tolerate restrictions on freedoms in exchange for a thriving economy and increased personal wealth. But with slowing growth and oppressive Covid rules, people are growing restless and Chinese president Xi Jinping may have to change course to secure his position

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Vincent Boland: Reading between the lines, the US-China ‘new cold war’ is very real

At the first ever presidential face-to-face meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping at the G20 in Bali, it was clear that the gulf which divides them is far wider than the Taiwan Strait

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Vincent Boland: Xi Jinping’s New Era risks dragging China back into the economic wilderness

The Chinese president is likely to be in power for another five years, possibly indefinitely. His record as paramount leader of an increasingly inward-looking regime does not bode well for China in dealing with the challenges it faces

Elaine Byrne: A global realignment is happening before our eyes as China ensnares Russia in its power game

The Sino-Russia relationship, with Russia the subservient partner, is united by the belief that a strong autocracy is a bulwark against a decadent democracy

Vincent Boland: China won’t want to be on Putin’s losing team

The Russian president is starting to see his own oppressed citizens flee the country or oppose him, and his strongest potential ally begin to distance itself

George Soros: Why 2022 will be a pivotal year in world history

The most important event could come in October when China’s 20th Party Congress decides on whether to give President Xi Jinping a third term as General Secretary