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When Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) called for a reset of bilateral relations with the US, a White House spokesperson replied that Washington saw the relationship as one of strong competition that required a position of strength. It is clear that US President Joe Biden’s administration is not simply reversing former US Donald Trump’s policies.
Citing Thucydides’ attribution of the Peloponnesian War to Sparta’s fear of a rising Athens, some analysts believe the US-China relationship is entering a period of conflict pitting an established hegemon against an increasingly powerful challenger.
I am not that pessimistic. In my view, economic
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Brunei Darussalam Yu Hong at the Chinese New Year celebrations. - BB
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): Brunei Darussalam was the fourth country to a receive vaccine donation from China when the Sinopharm vaccine arrived in the Sultanate on Feb 9.
The donation reflects the ties between the leaders of the two countries, said Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Brunei Darussalam Yu Hong on Sunday (Feb 28).
“The donation of the Sinopharm vaccine shows the strong long-term friendship and mutual trust between both countries and that China is a true friend, ” she said during the Brunei Fuzhou Shiyyi Association’s Chinese New Year celebration at the association’s building in Jalan Berakas.
If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was looking for some respite after the battering former US president Donald Trump gave it, it has been swiftly refused that hope. US President Joe Biden and his administration are making it clear that there is little chance of a return to the “strategic patience” of former US president Barack Obama’s era.
In terms of the US’ approach to Beijing’s relations with Taipei, there has been a continuation of the selective strategic clarity the Trump administration favored over the “strategic ambiguity” of previous US administrations.
One indication of this occurred during a virtual event on
The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago’s airport in late January and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera was beaming. “Today is a day of joy, emotion and hope,” he said.
The source of that hope: China a country that Chile and dozens of other nations are depending on to help rescue them from the COVID-19 pandemic.
China’s vaccine diplomacy campaign has been a surprising success: It has pledged about 500 million doses of its vaccine to more than 45 countries, according to a country-by-country tally by The Associated Press (AP).
With just four of China’s many