After months of trying, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters was all set to meet President Taneti Maamau in Kiribati in January. The arrangements were upended at the ...

China on Monday lauded DeepSeek's much-hyped AI model, but said the Hangzhou-based company isn't competing with America's leading AI firms. "As AI continues to reshape industries and everyday life ...

Kiribati switched its allegiance from pro-Taiwan to pro-Beijing in 2019 ... Kiribati’s president since 2016, Taneti Maamau, won his parliament seat easily and will seek a third presidential ...

President Trump’s abrupt and enthusiastic embrace of Russia and its authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin, is propelled in part by a strategic desire to drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing ...

Beijing promised to expand a pilot program giving full foreign ownership in sectors like telecommunications, health care and education. It also vowed to formulate new policies to encourage ...

Winston Peters is heading next to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Mongolia, China and South Korea. Photo / Mark Mitchell Winston Peters leaves New Zealand today for his first overseas trip ...

Earlier this year, Peters canned a planned trip to Kiribati after the President Taneti Maamau, who is also the Foreign Minister, said he could no longer meet Peters as scheduled. The snub blew up ...

Taneti Maamau denied he had planned to meet with Peters personally. Kiribati has drawn increasingly close to China since severing diplomatic ties to Taiwan in favor of Beijing in 2019.

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Maya by emailing [email protected]. Beijing has issued a lukewarm response to the U.S. proposal for Chinese and Brazilian peacekeepers to be ...