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EGYPT

The Arab Chinese Literature Forum

Cairo, Thursday, 21 June 2018

Cairo hosted the first Arab-Chinese Literature Forum on Literary Innovation on the New Silk Road with more than 50 writers and authors from Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan and other countries. The forum aims to promote the dialogue between civilizations especially between China and the Arab countries. Source: Xinhua, Beijing

 

IRAN

China-Iran boosts bilateral relation

Qingdao, Sunday, 10 June 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani met at the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Qingdao, in Shandong Province.  Both agreed to step up pragmatic cooperation between the two countries. Source: Xinhua, Beijing

 

TURKEY

China’s Vice-President meets Turkey’s foreign Minister

Beijing, Friday, 15 June 2018

Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan met with visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Beijing and discussed ways of strengthening their bilateral cooperation. Source: Xinhua, Beijing

 

China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister meets Turkey’s foreign Minister

Beijing, Friday, 15 June 2018

Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Beijing and said that both countries should continue their bilateral cooperation. Source: Xinhua, Beijing

 

President Xi Jinping congratulates Erdogan

Beijing, Friday, 29 June 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his re-election as Turkey's president. Jinping expressed that he believes Turkey will witness greater achievements under the leadership of Erdogan. Source: Xinhua, Beijing

ECONOMIC

ISRAEL

Chinese Companies to invest in Israeli innovation start-ups

Beijing, Friday, 22 June 2018

Israel will host the Intellectual Property Innovation & Entrepreneurship Contest (IPIEC) 2018 in August. Chinese companies will invest US$25 million in the Israeli start-ups who win the contest for their innovative projects in autonomous vehicles, renewable energy, artificial intelligence and robotics, big data, bio-medicine, IT and communications, innovative materials and more. Source: Global Times, Beijing

MISCELLANCEOUS

UAE

UAE to participate in the third Belt and Road Summit

Dubai, Wednesday, 20 June 2018

The UAE will participate in the third Belt and Road Summit to be held on 28 June in Hong Kong and tis delegation will be headed under Abdullah Al Saleh, undersecretary for foreign trade affairs in the Ministry of Economy. Source: Xinhua, Beijing

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As part of its editorial policy, the MEI@ND standardizes spelling and date formats to make the text uniformly accessible and stylistically consistent. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views/positions of the MEI@ND. Editor, MEI@ND: P R Kumaraswamy