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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping reaffirmed China's 60-year-old non-aggression and non-interference pact with India and Myanmar at the weekend as part of an international commitment to respect sovereign rights.
He told Myanmar President Thein Sein and Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari in Beijing that no nation should be allowed to monopolise global affairs.
President Xi evoked the principles of coexistence enunciated in 1954 when the then-recently liberated China was attempting to break out of the diplomatic isolation imposed by imperialism.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE