Category: Iran

Tehran’s New China Envoy Reflects a Broader Bet on Beijing, Analysts Say

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump wrapped up his Beijing summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping with few actual breakthroughs on Iran, Tehran named parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as its special representative for China affairs, a move Chinese analysts say ...

What Most People Get Wrong About China’s Iran Strategy

President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing this week hoping China could help contain the escalating U.S.-Iran crisis, but the summit underscored how limited Beijing’s influence over Tehran actually is. In Washington, many policymakers assume China ...

Iran Chief Negotiator Ghalibaf Appointed to Oversee Ties With China

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who recently emerged as a chief negotiator in talks with the United States, has been appointed to oversee relations with China, Iranian media reported on Sunday. "Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has recently been appointed as a ...

Trump Says Xi Agrees Iran Must Open Strait, China Says War Should Not Have Started

U.S. President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed Tehran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though China gave no indication it would weigh in. Flying back from Beijing on Friday after two days of talks with Xi, Trump ...

Iran FM Says U.S. Willing to Continue Talks, Open to China’s Help

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday he had "received messages" from the United States saying it is willing to continue talks, and that he was open to any support, including from China. "We received messages again from the Americans ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

Reading the Xi-Trump Summit’s South/North Signals

As I write, U.S. President Donald Trump is aboard Air Force One en route home after his highly anticipated visit to Beijing. 
There is much we still don’t know – not least what was discussed in face-to-face meetings towards the end of the visit. As often happens with Trump, the coverage collapses the personal and the global, with the former injecting wild-card energy into the latter.

Get a ...

BRICS Talks End Without Joint Statement, Exposing Divisions Over War in Iran

Top diplomats from BRICS nations, including rivals Iran and the United Arab Emirates, failed to issue a joint statement on Friday after a two-day meeting in Delhi, leaving host India to release only a chair's statement that exposed their differences. Tehran had wanted ...

Trump Wants China’s Help on Iran. Beijing May Have Other Ideas

By Andrea Shalal, Michael Martina and Trevor Hunnicutt When U.S. President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday he is expected to ask for help resolving his costly and unpopular war with Iran.

Iran War Looms Over Trump’s China Visit, Shifts Alliances

By Andrea Shalal, Emily Rose and Timour Azhari The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran loomed over U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to China on Wednesday, as signs emerged that the conflict is shifting alliances across the Middle East. ...

China Urges Pakistan Step up Mediation in Middle East: State Media

China's top diplomat urged Pakistan to step up mediation efforts between Iran and the United States, and to help "properly" address the reopening of the Hormuz Strait, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke to his Pakistani ...

Trump Says He Does Not Need China’s Help to End Iran War, Tehran Tightens Grip on Hormuz

By Gram Slattery, Marwa Rashad and Ahmed Rasheed U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he does not think he will need China's help to end the war with Iran, even as hopes for a lasting peace deal dwindled and ...

U.S. Issues New Sanctions Over Iran’s Oil Shipments to China

By Andrea Shalal and Daphne Psaledakis The U.S. government on Monday announced sanctions against three people and nine companies, including four based in Hong Kong and four in the United Arab Emirates, for aiding Iran's shipment of oil to China. The ninth ...

China Consumer Prices Rise on Iran War Oil Squeeze

China's consumer prices ticked up in April as the cost of crude oil rose globally due to the Iran war, official data showed on Monday. Helped by the surging oil costs, factory gate prices also continued to show signs of recovery, ...
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