South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday during a state summit in Gyeongju. Xi visited South Korea for the first time in eleven years. The leaders attended an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum before holding talks on regional cooperation and security. Xi told Lee that China values its relationship […]
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An icy Moscow visit
For the handful of Americans attending this year’s Moscow International Security Conference (MISC), unsurprisingly, the Kremlin’s attitude towards Washington and, of course, NATO was icy, confrontational and accusatory. Russian participants made abundantly clear to the 700 or so participants from some fifty-five states the major dangers to international security: the U.S. and NATO. The U.S […]
Pompeo expects North Korea diplomacy to be ‘bumpy’
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday he expected “bumpy” talks ahead with North Korea but that he still hoped to reach a potentially landmark denuclearization deal. US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cut short a summit in February in Hanoi, with Pyongyang later blaming Pompeo for pushing a […]