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3rd batch of Release of treated water from Fukushima ends safely: operator

The release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean ended safely as planned, its operator said on Monday, as the country's seafood producers continue to suffer from a Chinese import ban imposed after the discharges began. Large amounts of radioactive wastewater have accumulated at the nuclear plant since it was damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. It began discharging treated and diluted wastewater into the ocean on August 24 and finished releasing the third 7,800-ton batch on Monday. The process is expected to take decades. The discharges have been strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighbouring countries including China, which banned all imports of Japanese seafood, badly hurting Japanese producers and exporters of scallops and other seafood. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, said the third release, like the two previous ones, went smoothly and marine sampl

China's Xi calls for Asia-Pacific regional peace as he wraps up US trip

"The fundamental goal of China's development is to improve the well-being of the Chinese people, not to replace anyone," the state-run Xinhua News Agency cited him

After summit bonhomie, Biden & Xi Jinping vie to woo FDI from Asia-Pacific

After a display of rare bonhomie at their meeting on Thursday, US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have fiercely courted investments from the leaders and CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit to entice foreign capital. Facing a doubting task of reviving a once buoyant economy with the steady outflow of foreign companies and supply chains Xi, in his address at the APEC CEO summit in San Francisco pledged to tear down foreign investment barriers and promised to invite foreign capital with "heart-warming" measures. "No matter how the international situation evolves, China's resolve to foster a market-oriented, law-based and world-class business environment will not change, Xi said in written remarks to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit on Thursday. China's policy of providing equal and quality services to foreign investors will not change, he said. We will strive to tear down the barriers to the flow of innovation factors, deepen reform

In rare move, US revokes sanctions on China lab after Xi's fentanyl deal

The US has taken China's Institute of Forensic Science off the Commerce Department's entity list, paving for the fentanyl deal with Xi in a bid to deal with drug overdose crisis in the US.

In-person talks between Biden, Xi a shift in power dynamics: US media

The summit meeting restoring in-person talks between President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping here seems like a breakthrough and is reflective of a subtle but noticeable shift in the power dynamics between two countries that have spent most of the past few years denouncing, undercutting and imposing sanctions on each other, the US media said. Biden and Xi met on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. During their 4-hour-long meeting, they reached agreements on China taking action on fentanyl, resumption of military-to-military communications and the start of discussions on artificial intelligence. When President Biden met President Xi Jinping on Wednesday on the edges of Silicon Valley, there was a subtle but noticeable shift in the power dynamic between two countries that have spent most of the past few years denouncing, undercutting and imposing sanctions on each other, The New York Times reported a day after

What is the Biden-Xi fentanyl deal? What is the fentanyl crisis in the US?

Fentanyl was behind the majority of overdoses that killed a record 110,000 Americans in 2023

Xi hopes Fiji will continue to support China amid Indo-Pacific tensions

Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka met Xi for the first time on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco on Thursday.

Xi Jinping's warm words jar with reality for foreign companies in China

"Just as some leaders of the business community have said, China has become a synonym of the best investment destination, and that the 'next China' is still China," he told the economic forum

Expect candid talk: Blinken defends Biden's 'dictator' remark for Xi

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the US will continue to say things that China doesn't like, as he defended President Joe Biden's remarks wherein called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a "dictator". Biden called Xi a "dictator", just hours after they met for the first time in more than a year and held candid and productive discussions to revive bilateral ties on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. When pressed on whether Biden's comments were the position of the US government, Blinken responded that the president "speaks for all of us", CBS News reported. "Well, it's not exactly a secret that we have two very different systems," the commercial broadcast television quoted Blinken as saying. "And the president always speaks candidly, and he speaks for all of us." "We will continue to say things and continue to do things that China doesn't like, just as I assume that they will continue to do and say things that we

Xi's deal to slow fentanyl's flow into US unlikely to solve overdose crisis

Experts say new steps China has agreed to will eventually reduce the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl into the US, but that alone will not stem the overdose crisis killing Americans at a record rate. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at a meeting Wednesday in California that China is telling its chemical companies to curtail shipments to Latin America and elsewhere of the materials used to produce fentanyl, which is largely finished in Mexico and then smuggled into the US. China has also resumed sharing information about suspected trafficking with an international database. It's a step in the right direction because not doing this would be negligent, said Adam Wandt, an associate professor of public policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. If this is a diplomatic option that we did not take, every fentanyl death over the next decade would be on our heads. But he and others described the steps as necessary in addressing the overdose crisis in th

Joe Biden, Xi Jinping have far to go if they want to lift cold war clouds

After four hours of talks on Wednesday, the US and Chinese presidents offered a glimpse of just how hard it's going to be to manage their relationship away from that course.

APEC summit: China courts Indo-Pacific leaders amid stiff US competition

Chinese President Xi Jinping, fresh off his meeting with President Joe Biden, courted Indo-Pacific leaders in a flurry of meetings on Thursday at a time of intensifying competition with the United States. Xi held individual talks with the leaders of Mexico, Peru, and Fiji, and he planned a later session with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, all on the sidelines of a summit of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation economies. In a meeting with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, Xi said the two countries should strengthen economic and trade cooperation and pledged China's support for Peru as host of next year's summit of APEC leaders. In particular, Xi said, China will be willing to import more premium agricultural products from the South American country and will encourage Chinese businesses to participate in major projects in Peru. Earlier, Xi held talks with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, praising the Mexican president for his leadership and reform efforts and pledging to bring the

Biden urged to press Beijing to return to direct dialogue with Tibetans

Expressing concern that the issue of Tibet did not come up during the Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting, the International Campaign for Tibet has urged the US president to press Beijing to return to direct dialogue with the representatives of the Tibetan people. "Xi's meeting with President Biden takes place at a critical moment as the Chinese leader has ruthless control in Tibet, including intensive securitisation of the Tibetan Plateau and unprecedented Sinification of the Tibetan people. It is most important to raise these concerns directly with President Xi, the International Campaign for Tibet said in a statement. Tibetans, Uyghurs, and many other groups, including the Chinese people themselves, have been denied the freedom to raise their grievances and seek redress from the Chinese government. Xi and his officials must hear their voices too, and the Biden administration has an opportunity to push them to listen, it said. In particular, President Biden should press Beijing to return

China seeks to be friends with US, won't fight 'hot war': Xi Jinping

Biden held a solo news conference after four hours of talks with Xi on the outskirts of San Francisco

Ready to join US multilateral initiatives, Xi invites Biden to join BRI

Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited his US counterpart Joe Biden to take part in his pet global initiative the BRI and expressed his readiness to take part in the Washington-backed multilateral cooperate initiatives. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by Xi in 2015 in which China is reported to have invested over a USD trillion has been widely criticised by the US, India and other countries as several countries including Sri Lanka and Pakistan, its biggest beneficiaries, reeled under mounting debt burden. The US, India and many of the EU countries are not part of the BRI. On the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi in September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with President Biden and other world leaders launched the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC) to connect India, the Middle East and Europe with railways, shipping lines, high-speed data cables and energy pipelines. In his four-hour-long meeting with Biden on Wednesday on the sidelines of t

Handshakes, Fentanyl, and AI: Key takeaways from Biden- Xi summit

On the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, Xi and Biden agreed to resume military-to-military communication and counter-narcotics cooperation

Xi is dictator: Biden firm on past remark as US-China seek to cool tensions

When Joe Biden made a similar dictator reference about Xi Jinping in June, China called the remarks absurd and a provocation.

Joe Biden, Xi Jinping's 'blunt' talks yield deals on military, fentanyl

Biden and Xi met for about four hours on the outskirts of San Francisco to discuss issues that have strained U.S.-Chinese relations

Biden-Xi meet: US-China agree to restore some military communication

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to restore some military-to-military communications between their armed forces as the two leaders met for hours on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Both sides pledged cooperation that would bring the US and China closer to resuming regular talks under what's known as the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement, which until 2020 had been used to improve safety in the air and on the sea. A senior US official said after the Biden-Xi meeting ended that the military communication agreements mean that US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin can meet with his Chinese counterpart once that person is named. The official spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss a private meeting. This also opens the door for agreements at less-senior levels, including that the commander of US Pacific forces in Hawaii can engage with counterpart theatre commanders, the official said. The

Biden-Xi meet concludes, both sides to ensure differences remain manageable

The US-China Summit meeting concluded at a sprawling mansion here with Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreeing to work towards ensuring that the differences between the two countries remain manageable and the relations do not derail. Meeting in person for the first time in over a year, Biden and Xi spent time together for more than four hours at the Filoli mansion estate in Woodside, about 40 km south of San Francisco, in various settings that included an expanded bilateral, lunch and a walk in the garden of the mansion. Seated across a long table along with their respective delegations, the two leaders, facing each other, underscored that it was in the interest of the two countries to avoid confrontation and instead focus on cooperation The discussions, according to a senior administration, were open, frank, and candid. Biden was able to convey his views and concerns directly to Xi, who is understood to have responded with his own set of arguments. During the meeting, the two