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Fan Chen
Reporter, China
Fan Chen joined the Post in 2024. She has reported in Cambodia, Nepal, and the Czech Republic. Her work appears in Reuters, Newsweek, and Southern People Weekly. She holds two journalism degrees from Columbia Journalism School and New York University.
Fan Chen joined the Post in 2024. She has reported in Cambodia, Nepal, and the Czech Republic. Her work appears in Reuters, Newsweek, and Southern People Weekly. She holds two journalism degrees from Columbia Journalism School and New York University.
Areas of Expertise:
China, PhotographyLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
President Min Aung Hlaing’s recent visits to both his giant neighbours are seen as a balancing act rather than a shift away from Beijing.
Iranian foreign minister says real test is ending conflict in Lebanon, while US vice-president says assets must be spent on American goods.
China is downplaying the issue for now, as it is unlikely that pressuring North Korea would do anything other than sour ties.
The Chinese leader’s meetings with Kim Jong-un may have helped underline that Pyongyang cannot do without Beijing’s economic support.
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Crowds waving flags and carrying bouquets of flowers line the streets of the North Korean capital to welcome the Chinese leader.
Citing global turbulence, Beijing’s top diplomat also calls for stronger ‘high-level exchanges’ and ‘more tangible and visible outcomes’.
However, experts caution that the country’s economic instability and enduring regional rivalries have capped its gains.
Milos Vystrcil, who is leading a delegation from business, academic and cultural sectors, is set to meet island’s leader and other officials.
Announcement comes days after delegations from both countries sat down at Shangri-La Dialogue to discuss concrete military engagement.
Uncertainty over Strait of Hormuz amid US-Iran conflict has New Delhi moving on US$10 billion plan to transform Great Nicobar Island.
Such a move would cross Beijing’s red line and undo progress from recent summit with Xi, analysts warn.
Signing of over 40 agreements during Beijing summit between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin cements ‘historical peak’ in China-Russia ties.
America is ‘the biggest variable’, according to international relations expert and former diplomat Cui Hongjian.
Prominent hardliner Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament, is a veteran of peace talks with the US.
Summit encourages countries to join Beijing-led initiative as stalled US-Iran peace talks reveal limits of traditional solution mechanisms.
Just a handful of online posts from US president contrast with the flurry during his most recent state visits to the UK and Japan.
Beijing highlights the need for stable ties and peace, while Washington focuses on fentanyl and agricultural products.
The American president’s wife may be absent but his son appears in the entourage in a ‘personal capacity’.
Beijing-Moscow relationship described as having ‘inherent stability’, with a ‘stable mechanism’ able to withstand outside pressures.
Foreign Minister Araghchi will arrive on Wednesday and hold talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Beijing has announced.
US President Donald Trump says only a few people know the status of talks with Tehran as war enters its third month.
Despite the latest diplomatic initiatives, Beijing warns the US is threatening ‘hard-won stability’ with new smartphone restrictions.
Research must penetrate into the conflicts reshaping the United States and be driven by China’s national interests, academic writes.
Chinese leader also calls for expanding country’s talent pool and fostering an innovation culture ‘open, inclusive and tolerant of failure’.
The Iran war reflects Washington’s greater emphasis on implementing its maritime security strategy, analyst says.
Caught between Washington and Tehran, Riyadh may shift towards self-reliance and diversifying partnerships, observers note.
Tehran is looking for room to manoeuvre on bigger issues as a ceasefire deadline looms next week, observers say.
The US-Israeli attacks are a ‘massive learning opportunity’, a Middle East analyst tells a seminar held in Shenzhen.
The US leader said ‘much will be accomplished’, but one analyst says the war in Iran means he has ‘lost almost all his bargaining chips’.
