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Iran urges 'practical measures' to safeguard JCPOA
May 17, 2019 07:48Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that safeguarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a responsibility that demands "practical measures" by the international community.
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US recession risk rises as US-China trade tensions heat up: Poll
May 17, 2019 07:40Over the last month the US-China trade war has boosted the risk of a US recession, say a strong majority of economists polled by Reuters, who now put the chances of that happening in the next two years at 40 percent.
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Iran’s foreign minister visits China
May 17, 2019 03:18Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif left Japan for China on Friday to hold talks with senior Chinese officials on US administration’s destabilizing policies.
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US trade war will never bring China to its knees: media
May 17, 2019 02:08An escalating trade war between the US and China will never bring the Asian economic power to its knees, but will rather make it stronger, says Chinese media; while economists warn of yet another US recession on the horizon.
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China’s Huawei hits back after US blacklisting
May 16, 2019 06:30Chinese telecom giant Huawei has lambasted as “unreasonable” US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to ban telecommunications equipment from “foreign adversaries” that is perceived to pose a national security risk.
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China says won't be ‘bullied’ by US amid trade war
May 14, 2019 14:09China says it will not be “bullied” by the United States into agreeing to a trade deal, saying it hopes Washington does not underestimate Beijing’s determination to protect its interests, amid an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
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UK FM calls for military spending boost to meet US demands; deter Russia, China
May 14, 2019 11:49British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says London needs to “decisively” increase its military budget after leaving the European Union (EU) to satisfy US President Donald Trump’s demands of more spending while also developing a viable deterrent force against Russia and China.
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Trump to Xi: 'China will be hurt very badly if you don't make a deal'
May 14, 2019 02:00US President Donald Trump has warned Chinese President Xi Jinping that his country would be "hurt very badly" if a deal to end the escalating trade war is not reached between the two countries.
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China strikes back at US with tariff hike on goods worth $60bn
May 14, 2019 01:23China has announced plans to impose tariffs on 60 billion dollars' worth of US goods as of the beginning of next month, a retaliatory measure taken amid escalating trade war between the two sides in the aftermath of Washington's move to tax almost all Chinese imports to the United States.
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China sends 2nd medical aid cargo to Venezuela
May 14, 2019 00:19China sends a huge supply of medicine by plane to Venezuela, the second such shipment to be dispatched to the Latin American country by Beijing in three months.