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Eurasia
03/11/2023 10:11
The nation was shocked by the news and millions of people posted on Chinese social media to commemorate him when the news first broke on Friday morning.
Li served as premier for two terms between 2013 to 2023. He stepped down in March.
He was hailed by the party as “an excellent [party] member, a time-tested and loyal communist soldier and an outstanding proletarian revolutionist, statesman and leader of the party and the state”.
As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to complain about the cost of U.S. military bases in the Indo-Pacific, suggesting that host countries should cover the expenses, Jeffrey Sachs, professor at Columbia University, offers a win-win solution for all in a recent article: close the bases and bring U.S. servicemen back home.
Trade and tariff wars “will produce no winner,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday as he began his Southeast Asian trip in Vietnam.
Viktor Orbán was in for a diplomatic blitz during his visit to Türkiye. After the Turkish-Hungarian summit, photos posted on social media show that he met several leaders, and on Saturday, he held bilateral talks with the President-in-Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Prime Minister of Georgia.