Iran, China and Trump
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Young Western social media users are embracing a “very Chinese time” of their lives, and China’s government is keen to use this moment to boost the country’s cultural influence worldwide.
Russia's top diplomat said the country is ready to offset the loss of energy exports due to the conflict.
While US and Israeli fire threatened some of Iran’s most cherished cultural relics, scores of Persian artefacts were safe and sound, 5,000 kilometers away in northern China, under the watchful eye of Dong Bibing.
President Trump said China was “very happy” that he was “permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz,” in a post on Truth Social on the third day of the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports and coastline. “I am doing it for them,
China's export growth slowed in March as manufacturers grappled with surging energy costs, with the Iran war disrupting supplies, while imports jumped more than expected.
As the Trump administration wages real war with adversaries and trade wars with friends, Americans are changing their minds about the United States’ biggest rival, China, for the better, according to a new survey.
China is employing ships and a barrier to tighten control of the entrance to the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea amid roiling tension with the Philippines over the disputed feature, satellite imagery obtained by Reuters shows.
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on China, after a report on Sunday that Beijing was preparing a weapons shipment to Iran.
China, the world’s largest importer of energy, has so far weathered the global energy shock brought on by war in the Gulf well compared with some of its Asian neighbors.
Macro hedge funds in China, including Bridgewater Associates’ hugely popular onshore strategy, suffered heavy losses last month as the Iran war roiled markets.
In a thinly veiled critique of the war in Iran, China’s leader said the world could not risk reverting “to the law of the jungle.”
Four months ago, a dozen academics and researchers from China’s top oil and gas producers issued a warning buried in an academic journal: the nation’s quest for self-sufficiency had a critical weak spot.