U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared in his speech on September 13 at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) that the end of the post-Cold War order was at hand. Making specific reference to U.S. strategic competition with China, and moreover accusing China of threatening Western democracy with its growing clout, Blinken claimed, “Decades of relative geopolitical stability have given way to an intensifying competition with authoritarian powers, revisionist powers.”
Since the weekend, Beijing has impressed observers with separate series of intense, high-level consultations with Washington and Moscow, one after another.
After winning the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2021 and establishing himself as a rising star, pianist extraordinaire Liu Xiaoyu plans to tour China in October 2023.
Dishes themed Hangzhou Asian Games are displayed at a cooking competition in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 27, 2023. Chefs from 13 teams attended the competition.
A tightrope walker crosses a 300-meter long valley in the Shiniuzhai National Geological Park of Pingjiang County, central China's Hunan Province, April 24, 2023. The 2nd tightrope walking competition kicked off in Hunan on Monday.