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Nov
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Biden lines up economic team, receives congratulations from China’s Xi

Biden lines up economic team, receives congratulations from China’s Xi

WORLD
SIMON LEWIS U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will reveal his economic team and other key nominees next week, aides have said, while he received belated congratulations for his election victory from China's President Xi Jinping. The Democratic former vice president was scheduled to give a speech later on Wednesday highlighting the challenges Americans face as COVID-19 cases surge on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday. Biden introduced his foreign policy and national security team on Tuesday as he begins a formal transition to the White House after defeating Republican President Donald Trump. The president-elect has promised to make fighting the pandemic…
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Sep
23
2020
By The African Mirror
At U.N., Trump demands action against China over virus, Xi urges cooperation

At U.N., Trump demands action against China over virus, Xi urges cooperation

WORLD
MICHELLE NICHOLS and STEVE HOLLAND  U.S. President Donald Trump has used the U.N. General Assembly to attack China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it must be held accountable for having "unleashed this plague onto the world." By contrast, China's President Xi Jinping struck a conciliatory tone in his pre-recorded virtual address to the General Assembly, calling for enhanced cooperation over the pandemic and stressing that China had no intention of fighting "either a Cold War or a hot war with any country." The leaders of the world's two largest economies laid out their competing visions as relations have plunged…
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Sep
16
2020
By The African Mirror
Pandemic sharpens ‘battle for the soul’ of United Nations between U.S. and China

Pandemic sharpens ‘battle for the soul’ of United Nations between U.S. and China

WORLD
MICHELLE NICHOLS LONG-simmering tensions between the United States and China have hit boiling point at the United Nations over the coronavirus pandemic, spotlighting Beijing's bid for greater multilateral influence in a challenge to Washington's traditional leadership. Chinese President Xi Jinping has accelerated his U.N. power play as President Donald Trump's disregard for international cooperation led to the United States quitting global deals on climate and Iran and leaving the U.N. Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization, diplomats say. "There's definitely, in my mind, a battle for the soul of the U.N. going on," said a senior European diplomat,…
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