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The United States has a strong commitment to NATO not only in words but in deeds, alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on March 30 amid unease among European officials after U.S. President Donald Trump described NATO as "obsolete" during his election campaign.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an interview published Tuesday that he did not want or seek the position and only took it because his wife convinced him to do it.

“I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job,” Tillerson told IJR in an interview with the sole reporter allowed to accompany him on his recent Asia trip. “My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pledged in talks on March 19 to work to strengthen a relationship strained by disputes over North Korea and trade.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman oversaw the signing of deals worth potentially $65 billion on the first day of a visit to Beijing on March 16, as the world's largest oil exporter looks to cement ties with the world's second-largest economy.

BELGRADE - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sent an official invitation to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic to visit China on March 30-31.

The invitation was presented to Nikolic by Chinese Ambassador Li Manchang during a meeting in Belgrade.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sent an official invitation to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic to visit China on March 30-31.

The invitation was presented to Nikolic by Chinese Ambassador Li Manchang during a meeting in Belgrade, Tanjug has reported.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said he is planning to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has no intention of asking for permission from EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, to do so.

The official report of this year's 53th Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17-19 was titled "Post-Truth, Post-West, Post-Order?"

That in itself explains a lot about explorations in the field of security and diplomacy under the new global circumstances symbolized by the election of Donald Trump as the president of the U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump changed tack and agreed to honor the "one China" policy during a phone call with China's leader Xi Jinping, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing which brooks no criticism of its claim to self-ruled Taiwan. 

The question that never changes when I return from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has always been "Who are the people and events that marked Davos this year?