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Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo on September 1, 2026, for a state visit marking 70 years of China-Egypt ties. In a joint statement, Xi and Sisi rejected Palestinian displacement and backed an independent Palestinian state along the June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Critiques the BBC's coverage of the August 2025 Himalayan glacier collapse, arguing that Western media framed China's transparent rescue efforts and information release as authoritarian suppression.

Keith Bennett discusses how China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, despite shared revolutionary origins, turned on each other in the late 1970s, with China backing the Khmer Rouge amid atrocities and territorial disputes shaping Beijing's decisions.

Keith Bennett joins Radhika Desai to examine why China backed the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, tracing territorial disputes with Vietnam and how shared revolutionary origins failed to prevent war among China, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

The US Treasury expands Venezuela's mining licenses to include coal and gold, while retaining strict controls over payments, partners, and dispute resolution, deepening imperial tutelage over Venezuelan resources.

China demands protection of its investments in Venezuela as US-backed NABEP takes over oilfields, including joint ventures with Chinese firms, under a deal hailed by Washington as securing energy dominance.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the SCO Summit 2026 in Bishkek, called the multipolar trend irreversible and proposed boosting photovoltaic and wind capacity by 10 million kilowatts each with SCO countries, plus 100 tech projects in three years.

On August 31, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping met bilaterally with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the 2026 SCO Summit in Bishkek, discussing cooperation and regional stability.

Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the SCO Summit 2026 in Bishkek and paid a state visit to Kyrgyzstan, where both heads of state signed a joint declaration and a treaty on permanent good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation.

The SCO Bishkek Summit 2026 adopted the Bishkek Declaration, backing financial reform and the Belt and Road Initiative, while Russia's trade with members exceeded US$400 billion and national currencies dominate settlements at over 98 percent.

A Chinese-funded project in the West Bank provides education, extracurricular activities, and psychosocial support to 136 Palestinian children, aiming to foster hope and skills amid movement restrictions and school disruptions.

China's installed photovoltaic capacity has surpassed coal for the first time, making solar its largest power source.

Mick Dunford dismantles the Western narrative of Zhu Rongji as a liberal hero, arguing that his reforms were turbulent steps within a still-socialist system rather than capitalist triumphs, and highlighting how subsequent leaders corrected the resulting inequalities.

Mick Dunford dismantles the Western narrative of Zhu Rongji as a liberal hero, arguing that his 1990s reforms were turbulent steps within a still-socialist system rather than capitalist triumphs, and highlighting how subsequent leaders corrected their excesses.

The US Treasury's OFAC amended eight Venezuela sanctions licenses, removing a requirement that contracts with Venezuelan state entities be governed by US law, while retaining sanctions and dispute-resolution venues.

China's imports of Iranian oil remain near record levels despite US sanctions, as private refiners evade pressure.

China's UN ambassador urges the Security Council to uphold the Gaza ceasefire, halt West Bank settlement violence, and advance the two-State solution, stressing that resolving the Palestine question is long overdue.

The 25th Round of Talks between China and India's Special Representatives on the Boundary Question, held in Beijing on August 25, 2026, was headed by Wang Yi and Ajit Doval, yielding eight points of outcomes and consensus.

During King Abdullah II of Jordan's August 2026 state visit to China, Xi Jinping called the Palestinian question the core of the Middle East issue. He proposed four principles for its resolution, including upholding political settlement, the two-State solution, and Palestinians governing Palestine.

Two young Americans, journalist Edgar Snow and doctor George Hatem, broke through KMT blockades to reach the Red Army's base in 1936, documenting the Long March and joining the Chinese revolution, embodying international solidarity.

Friends of Socialist China announces 'China's Foreign Policy and the Making of a Multipolar World', edited by Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez, with ten essays by nine experts, endorsements from George Galloway and others, and a review by Chen Weihua.