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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, talks to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, July 20, 2023.
A NEW cold war is undermining the basis of the United Nations, the global body’s secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday night.
Mr Guterres said that the “post-cold war era” had finished and great power confrontation and geopolitical tension were once again the defining characteristics of the age.
He spoke on the day US centenarian strategist Henry Kissinger met Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting billed as a tribute to Sino-US co-operation 52 years after Mr Kissinger negotiated the opening of diplomatic relations between the states.
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
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out