China is also believed to have long eyed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a possible host country for another base. Currently, Beijing's only other significant overseas military base is in the East African country of Djibouti.
Iran has been subjected to crippling oil-export sanctions for the last several years, but that hasn't stopped China, whose imports of Iranian oil have increased by the month (read: here), traders and ship-tracking firms told Reuters.
China -- Since usurping power by brazen election fraud, Biden regime hardliners have been pushing things for confrontation with Russia, China and other nations.
China -- Former US diplomat Chas Freeman accompanied Richard Nixon on his historic visit to China in 1972 that was all about enlisting its leadership to aid Washington's aim to contain Soviet Russia.
The Trump Administration's decision to reimpose sanctions on the Iranian oil trade has dramatically reduced Iranian crude exports - but it hasn't stopped some of the US's largest economic rivals from accepting shipments of Iranian crude, according to
Just in case the "world tech and trade war I" was not enough to send US-China relations back decades, on Wednesday the US military sent two Navy destroyers through the Taiwan Strait in its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, "angering Chin
China announced plans to invest 81.2 billion yuan (US$12 billion) in four new nuclear reactors for the first time since 2016. CNNP's reactors are planned in Zhangzhou city, Fujian province, while CGN will build the other two in Huizhou city, Guangd
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has constructed a new, underground facility (UGF) about 31 miles from the India-China border, and 37 miles from the Indian Army's forward posts at Demchok in Ladakh.
America's declining influence in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim has been in hyperdrive this week following President Trump's tweetstorm against Pakistan.
32 sailors are missing after an Iranian oil tanker sailing to South Korea collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of China and caught fire on Saturday evening, according to China's Ministry of Transport.
In a direct challenge to U.S. imperialism, China's yuan-denominated contracts - backed by gold -will let oil exporting countries bypass using the U.S. petrodollar.
It could be argued that there's never been a time in history, where so many Americans thought that we were on the brink of another major war. If you pay attention to the constant news stream of stories regarding Syria, North Korea, or Russia,
Saudi Arabia's king Salman last week invited Beijing to take a more active part in Middle East politics and in response, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said it would be happy to act as mediator between Riyadh and Tehran – and this on top of prelimi
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With tensions mounting between the United States and both Russia and China, the Chinese and Russian military have announced their first-ever joint exercises to counter "incidental or provocative" missile attacks to be conducted in Russia later th
China's rulers are reluctant to get more heavily involved for a number of reasons, say analysts here, ranging from their mistrust of American intentions to a fear of being sucked out of their depth into the Middle East maelstrom.
They are also d
Two Chinese destroyers have arrived at Iran's Gulf port of Bandar Abbas, in an unprecedented visit attesting to a new rapprochement between the two countries, Iranian media reported Sunday.
The six energy-rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf are seeking to strengthen ties with China, Gulf Cooperation Council chief Abdullatif al-Zayani said Wednesday after talks with the Chinese foreign minister.
Zayani held talks in Saudi Arabia with Chi
China's PLA "sunk" a U.S. aircraft carrier during a war game in remote China using its DF-21D "Carrier Killer" missile, reports Taiwan paper Want China Times.
The House Intelligence Committee recommended on Monday that American companies should be blocked from carrying out mergers and acquisitions involving two Chinese telecommunications firms, saying their equipment could be used for spying in the United
Earlier today, the World Bank slashed its outlook for growth in China to 7.7 percent in 2012 and 8.1 percent in 2013, down from 8.2 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively.
The USS George Washington and the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs), a flotilla of five ships and more than 10,000 Navy personnel are now operating in the conflict ridden South China Sea area.
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