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Italy endorses China's new Silk Road plan despite US warnings
Mar 24, 2019 07:48Italy has joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an international infrastructure plan, dismissing calls from the United States to shun the project.
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China strongly objects to US over North Korea-related sanctions
Mar 22, 2019 12:03China has filed “stern representations” with the United States over North Korea-related unilateral sanctions imposed on two Chinese shipping firms.
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Blast at Chinese chemical plant kills 47, injures over 600
Mar 22, 2019 08:07An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 47 people and injured more than 600, state media said on Friday, March 22, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has angered the public.
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US imposes North Korea sanctions on Chinese shipping companies
Mar 22, 2019 01:43The United States has targeted two Chinese shipping companies over the alleged evasion of sanctions imposed on North Korea, the first such steps since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's summit collapsed last month.
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Trump says China tariffs to stay for ‘substantial period’
Mar 21, 2019 13:25US President Donald Trump has warned that he might keep imposing heavy tariffs on Chinese goods for a “substantial period” to make sure that China will comply with any possible trade agreement resulting from ongoing mutual talks.
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China ‘to build island city’ in South China Sea, US cries foul
Mar 19, 2019 09:53China says it plans to construct an “island city” in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, in a move that has sparked the United States’ objection.
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Iran economy minister in China to discuss trade ties
Mar 18, 2019 10:04Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Farhad Dejpasand has traveled to China to discuss ways of promoting bilateral trade.
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China: Nearly 13,000 ‘terrorists’ detained in restive west since 2014
Mar 18, 2019 05:20China says it has arrested tens of thousands of “terrorists” since four years ago in its volatile western Xinjiang region, which is home to millions of Muslim minorities, including Uighurs.
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US angry as China plans nuclear deal with Argentina
Mar 16, 2019 14:15US angry as China plans nuclear deal with Argentina
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Trump's trade war cost US economy $7.8 billion in 2018: study
Mar 16, 2019 09:36US President Donald Trump’s trade war cost the US economy $7.8 billion in lost gross domestic product in 2018, according to a study by a team of economists at leading American universities.