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Former Taiwanese president to lead a delegation on a 12-day trip to mainland China next week. Source link

The signs are there: a pro-business cabinet, a big welcome for foreign investment and a big push for diplomacy, connectivity and sustainability. For many international companies, China will still be a major growth driver this year. Source link

Beijing has appointed a host of emissaries to take on specific tasks, from ethnic conflicts to climate change. Source link

It remains to be seen how much China will enforce the agreement given its dislike of confrontation, but that matters less than others engaging with Beijing. The world order is shifting and the West needs to find a better way to answer the offer Beijing is putting on the table …

Focusing only on the combatants, Europe, Nato and China in any discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine risks ignoring large parts of the world. Attitudes towards the war are complex and varied among nations in the Global South, and they should be part of the global conversation. Source link

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing and get 25 per cent off an annual plan. Promoted two months ago, Qin Gang is holding his first annual press conference as foreign minister at this year’s “two …

Asean ministers have agreed to revive talks on the code of conduct, but they are applying international law rather than China’s preferred rules. Beijing must understand that coercion and negotiations cannot take place simultaneously if it wants to bring the code of conduct into being. Source link

Foreign Minister Qin Gang said Canada should act to stop ‘rumours’ from damaging ties. Source link

Oh Hye-son recently published a Korean-language memoir on how she and her husband Thae Yong-ho, then deputy ambassador at North Korea’s London embassy, defected in 2016. Source link

In farewell speech, Chinese ambassador Kong Xuanyou calls for countries to resume exchanges and avoid being ‘misled by momentary incidents’. Source link