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CHENGDU: Taking selfies and waving Chinese flags curious locals flocked to the US consulate in Chengdu on Sunday as officials prepared to remove its official plaque just days after Washington and Beijing ordered each other to close one of their diplomatic missions. Tensions between the two countries over trade and …

NEW DELHI: Indian and Chinese diplomats agreed on Friday to a fast pull back of troops eyeballing each other across a disputed border in the western Himalayas where 20 Indian soldiers died in a clash last month, the Indian government said. There were no shots fired during the June 15 …

BEIJING: China reported 24 new cases of COVID-19 for July 24 in the mainland, with 20 cases of the virus emerging in the country’s Xinjiang province. As per details, nine COVID-19 cases were reported in the northeastern province of Liaoning, while the remaining five were imported cases. China reported 74 …

BEIJING: China will aim to launch its first independent mission to Mars today (Thursday) as it gears up to take the leadership in space missions across the world with the US, European and Indian spacecraft either orbiting Mars or on its surface with other missions underway or planned already. The …

While two US Navy carrier strike groups drilled in the South China Sea last week, Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) jets practiced anti-ship attacks nearby. For weeks, several US aircraft carriers have carried out drills in waters near China, including in the Philippine Sea and South China Sea. …

TEHRAN: Iranian oil minister on Monday informed that under the framework of the 25-year comprehensive cooperation road map, Iran and China will collaborate on the oil sector in the long-run. As Bijan Namdar Zanganeh told reporters that Iran is ready to sign a similar cooperation road map with all countries. …

A former Iranian ambassador to China says the East Asian country would guarantee to buy Iran’s oil for 25 years as part of a long-term partnership deal that is being negotiated between the two. Mehdi Safari said in remarks published on Sunday that China is looking for a reliable supplier …

China and Russia have joined Iran to express strong opposition to the “US unilateralism” in international affairs amid a widening rift between Washington and Beijing over a litany of political and economic issues. In a phone conversation on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov …

China’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying noted that the US itself is the biggest human rights violator in the world. China’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the US accusation against the Xinjiang region on the issue of human rights is the biggest lie of the current century. She made the …

The United States says it will do everything it can to support China’s rivals in territorial disputes, setting a one-size-fits-all, openly hostile policy toward Beijing. “We will support countries all across the world who recognize that China has violated their legal territorial claims as well — or maritime claims as …