Taiwan’s relations with the United States are “rock solid,” its president said Thursday, after Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed his country’s territorial claims to the island in a call with President Donald Trump.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held rare back-to-back calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, signalling Beijing’s strategic positioning amid global tensions, Ukraine war negotiations,

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a video call Wednesday to discuss the burgeoning economic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing and their relations with the United States.

Xi Jinping pushes renminbi as a global trade and reserve currency; learn what reforms, market shifts and risks mean for investors and central

In a video-link call broadcast on Russian state television, Putin said the Moscow-Beijing relationship was an important stabilizing factor at a time of growing global turbulence.

Purges of top generals means China’s leader has a freer hand to deal with the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own.

Analysts say China’s leader is still focused on reunification

BEIJING, Feb 3 (Reuters) - China and Uruguay should work together to advance an "equal and orderly multipolar world", President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Yamandu Orsi on Tuesday, as their nations signed up to cooperate in areas from trade to the environment.