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Trump received mostly negative ratings in a survey of 24 nations but few people had confidence in either Trump or Xi to do ...
A delayed reaction to an Israeli parliamentary visit to Taiwan undercuts Beijing’s nascent charm offensive to Israel. What’s ...
People in China are calling attention to the fact that the state of Israel is not present on online maps in China, a concerning development given China's historical obsession with map boundaries.
The country name "Israel" does not appear on online maps on the Chinese search engine Baidu or the Alibaba-backed maps app Amap, though surrounding countries' names are clearly shown.
Iran and Israel came to blows, and Beijing mostly ducked. China isn’t ready to be the world’s next superpower: That’s one ...
China is closely watching whether Israel and Iran can broker a ceasefire. Beijing gets much of its crude oil imports from Iran through a "dark fleet" of vessels to evade American sanctions.
Through the 12 days of the recent Israel-Iran conflict, China moved quickly to position itself as a potential mediator and voice of reason amid a spiralling regional crisis. The day after Israel ...
While the U.S. openly threw its military heft behind Israel, Beijing’s support for Tehran appeared more nuanced, raising doubts over China’s objectives.
China has overtaken the U.S. in net favorability and enjoys far more support across the globe, according to a new report.
China has an estimated 600 nuclear warheads—an increase of 100 in just one year—the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported.
Iran launched a huge ballistic-missile strike on Israel this week, what appears to be the largest ever. Defense experts say the attack represented a fraction of what a Chinese missile strike could ...
A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...