New Zealand's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released its annual report on 23 September, claiming China is the 'most persistent and capable' state-level cyber threat facing New Zeal...
President Xi Jinping held phone talks with UK Prime Minister Burnham on the evening of 8 September 2026 at the latter's request. Xi congratulated Burnham on his appointment and said China and the ...
Ding Xuexiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with Russian President Vladimir P...
Chinese Ambassador Wang Xiaolong and Russian Ambassador to New Zealand Kolans published a joint signed article, 'Forged in Blood and Fire: Defending Second World War History Together', in the ...
Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang attended the plenary session of the 11th Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on 3 September 2026, delivering a speech titled 'Deepening China-Russia R...
Commerce Ministry spokesperson Huang Ling pushed back on September 3 against US allegations of Chinese overcapacity, saying export growth is driven by scale and innovation, and that overcapacity is a ...
On the afternoon of 1 September 2026, Premier Li Qiang met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with a visiting delegation led by McCain, chairman of the board of the US-China Business Council. ...
Meta has agreed to pay up to US$18 billion and implement a series of measures to protect minors, settling lawsuits brought by 47 US states and the District of Columbia. The measures include ending inf...
Trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to announce strong countermeasures against Washington. Carney criticised US credibility, saying Washingto...
Wang Huning met US representatives attending the third China-US 1.5-track dialogue in Beijing on August 24, saying China is willing to work with the US to enhance mutual understanding. A said deep-sea...
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political C...
Japanese Defence Minister Kinnosuke Koizumi is set to visit Australia and India from 17 to 21. He will hold talks with Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles on Australia...
Reuters reported exclusively on the 15th that the US State Department plans to send letters to more than 30 countries that signed the joint statement on the Artificial Intelligence Opportunities Partn...
The US Coast Guard has stepped up activity in the Western Pacific, focusing on the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. On August 14, Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration said US Coast Guard pers...
On 13 September, the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service released its 2026 annual report, 'New Zealand's Security Threat Environment', which singled out China as the only country con...
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) revealed on 13 August in its 2026 Security Threat Environment Assessment that it had stopped China's Purple Mountain Observatory from installi...
On August 14, the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand rebuffed the 2026 New Zealand Security Threat Environment report by the country's Security Intelligence Service, rejecting its framing of normal ex...
The US plans to spend US$50 million piloting a “digital passport” (Pax Pass) in Panama. The AI-powered supply chain certification and traceability platform would authenticate the origin, transport rou...
An article published by the Lowy Institute in Australia on 13 August noted that New Zealand's intelligence agencies have increasingly named China directly in recent years, adopting a tougher stanc...
A report funded by Australia's Defence Department has exaggerated the risk of deliberate damage to submarine cables, linking Chinese research vessel activity to the Taiwan issue and calling for en...
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters, 81, sought to rally criticism of China's missile test during a Pacific Islands Forum foreign ministers' meeting, but failed after at least two coun...
China has been New Zealand's largest trading partner for years, with two-way trade worth more than NZ$42 billion in 2025, Ambassador Wang Xiaolong wrote in the New Zealand Herald's Silk Road s...
In a signed article for the Silk Road special issue of the New Zealand Herald, Chinese Ambassador Wang Xiaolong said China brings certainty to New Zealand in a world of uncertainty. Bilateral trade ex...
Wu Kaiwen, a former New Zealand ambassador to China, on 30 July accused Foreign Minister Winston Peters of persistently undermining bilateral relations, saying he had made no contribution and behaved ...
Germany's assessment of economic vulnerabilities in China, naming Trumpf and Carl Zeiss, reveals strategic anxiety, said Yang Chengyu, an associate research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social...