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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s China visit to attend the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit at Tianjin held no surprises. Everything about it, including the separate and different statements from India and China after Modi’s talks with Xi Jinping, was predictable. 

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said a week of high-profile pageantry in China with Xi Jinping hosting Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, senior Iranian officials and India's prime minister Narendra Modi, shows U.S. strategy has "united our adversaries and divide[d] our friends," calling it a "spectacular" failure of American…

What do world leaders talk about when they think we’re not listening? This week it was the idea of living forever.

“You would hope that you use your position as a former leader ... to push the world closer to peace, not join a military parade with a bunch of dictators,” David Shoebridge said of the pics.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un told China's President Xi Jinping that it was his "steadfast will" to "steadily develop" bilateral relations, state media said Friday, after the two leaders met in Beijing.

Goodwill messages continued this week’s public display of diplomatic unity between Beijing, Pyongyang and Moscow.

Editorial: Images of the autocrats at Wednesday’s military parade reflected the shifting global order. But Donald Trump is hastening Beijing’s rise

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Donald Trump’s tariff policy seems to have morphed into as much of a tool of foreign policy as an economic strategy. But the administration’s decision to impose a 50% tariff on India, a key US ally as part of the Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) along with the US, Australia and…

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have been recorded on a hot mic discussing how organ transplants and other medical advances could let humans live past 150 years -- or even become immortal.

With Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un among 26 world leaders watching, China’s president Xi Jinping made a muscular address to 50,000 people in Tiananmen Square marking 80 years since the end of the second world war. China is “never intimidated by bullies” and would “stand by the…