Category: meeting

Oil Steady Ahead of OPEC+ Supply Policy Meeting

LONDON—Oil was steady on Monday ahead of a meeting by OPEC and its allies which may determine whether a recent rally in prices amid supply shocks and a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will be sustained. Brent crude was down 6 cents or 0.1 percent at $79.22 per barrel by 0935 GMT. It rose 1.5…


French Trade Minister Declines to Meet With Australian Counterpart

PARIS—French Trade Minister Franck Riester has declined an offer to meet his Australian counterpart next month in Paris, suggesting tensions will not quickly subside after Canberra’s recent decision to scrap a $40 billion submarine deal with France. Dan Tehan had told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio on Monday he would be “very keen” to meet Riester…


Top US Trade Official to Have Meeting With WTO Chief on Wednesday

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will have an online meeting on Wednesday with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, Tai’s media office said, weeks before it holds an import ministerial conference. Tai spoke by telephone earlier this month with the head of the WTO and acknowledged the “difficult logistical challenges” facing the…


Australian Trade Minister Seeks French Meeting, Confident Subs Row Won’t Derail EU Talks

CANBERRA—Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan said on Monday he will seek a meeting with his French counterpart to ease tensions over Canberra’s decision to scrap a $40 billion submarine deal. Australia last week said it would end the deal with France’s Naval Group to build a fleet of conventional submarines and would instead build at…


ECB’s Lane Reveals in Private Meeting Inflation Target May Be Met by 2025: Report

FRANKFURT—European Central Bank (ECB) chief economist Philip Lane revealed in a private meeting with German economists that the ECB expects to hit its 2 percent inflation goal by 2025, the Financial Times said on Thursday in a report that was partly disputed by the bank. The ECB had not made this long-term forecast public, meaning…


Prime Minister Calls UK Emergency Cobra Meeting On Afghanistan

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the situation unfolding in Afghanistan, Downing street has announced. The top-level Cobra meeting on the afternoon of Aug. 13 comes less than a day after the announcement that 600 UK troops will be sent to Afghanistan to oversee what is effectively an…


China Insider: U.S., Chinese Diplomats Clash Publicly in First Meeting Under Biden

The first U.S.-China meeting under the Biden administration got off to a rocky start on March 18, when the diplomats of both countries traded sharp criticism against each others’ policies in front of reporters.


Biden to Meet Virtually With Quad Leaders from Japan, India, Australia

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Joe Biden will hold an online meeting on Friday with the leaders of Japan, India, and Australia, the White House said on Tuesday, the first leader-level meeting of a four-country group that seeks to promote a rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region in response to increased military and economic aggression by China’s…


China Insider: China Proposes Organ Donation Assessment Policy

Chen Jingyu, a leading lung transplant surgeon in China, proposed at Beijing’s Two Sessions meeting that organ donations should be one of the indexes to assess Chinese cities.


China Insider: Less Than 4 Percent of Chinese Have Received Covid-19 Vaccine

The Chinese regime has been touting the effectiveness of Chinese-made vaccines, and claimed that all representatives attending Beijing’s Two Sessions had received a COVID-19 vaccine before the political meeting. However, it was reported that the current vaccination rate in the country is only 4 percent, indicating that Chinese citizens don’t have much trust in domestic…