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Taiwan, Beijing and the US: has Japan chosen a side? Relations between China and Japan appear to be at a crossroads, according to one observer. Photo: Shutterstock
Asian giants China and Japan are uneasy neighbours. While they set aside historical animosity and mistrust in the early days of the pandemic - Japan sending boxes of masks to China bearing a line of classical poetry that they share the wind and moon under the same sky - tensions are again rising.
Beijing is at loggerheads with the West, and US ally Japan has had to walk a tightrope between China and the United States. But in recent weeks, after several senior Japanese officials broke with Tokyo s traditionally neutral position to show support for Taiwan, angering Beijing, Chinese observers are asking whether Japan has chosen a side.
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Tencent rises 3.93% after Sogou deal approved HSBC jumps after Bank of England scraps dividend curbs
July 13 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares rose on Tuesday as high tech and financials stocks rallied, after Chinese regulators approved a deal involving index heavyweight Tencent Holdings and after the Bank of England scrapped dividend curbs on lenders including HSBC. At the close of trade, the Hang Seng index was up 448.17 points, or 1.63%, at 27,963.41. The Hang Seng China Enterprises index rose 1.69% to 10,113.32. Tech firms in Hong Kong drove gains, with the sub-index of the Hang Seng tracking the IT sector rising 3.3% and the Hang Seng Tech index up 1.94%. Tencent Holdings Ltd jumped 3.93% after China’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday approved its plan to take the country’s no.3 search engine Sogou Inc private in a $3.5 billion deal. The financial sector also gained, rising 1.54% with Hong Kong shares of HSBC Holdings Plc ending 2.62% higher after the Bank of Eng
The Chinese government rarely passes up a chance to accuse the United States of military adventurism and hegemony. In the case of Afghanistan, though, it has changed its tone, warning that Washington now bears the responsibility for the hasty end to its two-decade war there.
“The United States, which created the Afghan issue in the first place, should act responsibly to ensure a smooth transition in Afghanistan,” China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said this month at a forum in Beijing. “It should not simply shift the burden onto others and withdraw from the country with the mess left behind unattended.”
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