Xi (China)

The NPC Standing Committee approved a stand-alone employment plan targeting 12 million jobs a year; alongside it, Beijing published a 47-page governance manifesto built around sovereign equality and multilateralism

The NPC approved the plan on June 25, raising the renewable electricity share from 22% to 30% by 2030 and triggering a two-year campaign to upgrade energy-intensive industry

PLA maneuvers around Taiwan ended with a carrier strike group transit and coast-guard challenges on multiple approaches, which US analysts say match the template for a maritime quarantine

Rahman's first state visit since winning February's election pivots Dhaka toward Beijing with trade, investment and infrastructure agreements; Xi meeting on June 26 confirmed the relationship reset

Rahman travelled directly from WEF's Dalian forum for a four-day state visit, sealing Bangladesh's first-ever Chinese fighter-jet acquisition and deals covering the Teesta project, green development and education

Bian Zhigang, deputy head of SASTIND and deputy director of CNSA, is being investigated for "serious violations of discipline and law"

Median-line crossings and joint air-sea patrols continue day after day while the opposition legislature keeps blocking Lai Ching-te's special defence bill

Manufacturing utilisation near a decade low, retail growth at a three-year trough, and Beijing answers with 'anti-involution', not a consumer bailout

Doval and Wang Yi note 'gradual normalisation' and an 'early harvest' sectoral track even as the MEA calls CPEC infrastructure in the China-held Shaksgam Valley 'illegal and invalid'

21-gun salute for Min Aung Hlaing, a 'shared future' joint statement, RMB–kyat settlement and Kyaukpyu, Beijing legitimises a ballot that barred the opposition

Beijing pulls Kim back into orbit after Russia's courtship, 'good neighbour, good friend, good comrade', and silence on the bomb