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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is traveling to India and Vietnam next week, seeking to strengthen ties with two increasingly important US partners and shore up economic resilience through diversified supply chains.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said he was hopeful for future ties with South Korea, whose conservative government has sought to resolve a longtime dispute over wartime forced labour.

The Saudi public gave mixed reviews on issues such as normalization and ties with the United States, but remained mostly united regarding Russia’s actions in Ukraine and relations with Iran.

Is Erdoğan Exchanging Religious Populism for Ties with China? Published January 12th, 2021 - 08:15 GMT Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping /AFP Is Erdoğan Exchanging Moral Standing for Better Ties with China? A new extradition treaty between Turkey and China could see the return of Uyghur refugees to China where they’d likely face prosecution in an ongoing genocide against the Muslim minority under Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (...