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The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where Xi Jinping delivered the speech, pictured in October 2025.

Xi says reunification with Taiwan "will certainly be achieved" and offers talks under the one-China principle

Manila City Hall and the skyline of the Philippine capital at dusk, in May 2025.

Philippines halts Brazilian pork imports for 60 days as Lula lands in Manila

Inside the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 2025. The Nikkei 225 closed this Friday down 5.96%.

Kospi triggers circuit breaker and closes 6% lower as the Nikkei loses the 60,000 mark in Asia's worst session since April 2025

The Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge over the Yalu River, linking Dandong, in China, to Sinuiju, in North Korea, seen from the Chinese side in 2011.

North Korea and China

Kim Jong Un walks across the new Yalu River bridge on his first trip to China in a year

Typhoon Champi at peak intensity, in an image from the Himawari-9 satellite taken on 20 October 2026.

Typhoon Champi leaves one dead and 527 injured in Taiwan, and the land warning is due to be lifted on Saturday

Chinese Army armoured vehicles during an exercise at the Korla military base in Xinjiang, in August 2019. The same city is now hosting Karakoram 2026.

China and Pakistan open the first joint exercise between their armies, with all-Chinese equipment

Terminal E of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, in 2017. It is Thailand's largest airport.

Floods in Thailand kill 23 and throw Bangkok's biggest airport into disarray after 320 mm of rain in three days