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China fires anti-ship ballistic missiles into South China Sea in warning to US
Aug 27, 2020 06:05China has launched two ballistic missiles, including one known as the “aircraft carrier killer,” into the South China Sea, in a clear warning to the United States, which has been ratcheting up tensions in the strategic waterway.
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US sanctions Chinese individuals, firms over South China Sea dispute
Aug 27, 2020 01:59The United States has blacklisted 24 Chinese companies and individuals over their actions related to disputed islands in the South China Sea.
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US, China sea tensions hot and getting hotter
Aug 26, 2020 11:05The US-China “New Cold War” is heating up at sea, raising the risk of an armed conflict that seemed highly unlikely just months ago amid unprecedented global health and economic crises. During its latest drills in the South China Sea on August 18, the US Navy’s USS Mustin destroyer upped the ante by reportedly piercing through for the first time the western side of the median line dividing mainland China and Taiwan.
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Senior Chinese envoy warns Australia of ‘shadow’ over ties
Aug 26, 2020 10:49A top Chinese diplomat has warned Australia of a “shadow” over the relations between Beijing and Canberra, saying Australia’s support for the United States in calling for an investigation into the origins of the new coronavirus prodded Washington to put more pressure on China.
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US unilateralism, hegemonic acts doomed to fail: China
Aug 25, 2020 01:53China has vehemently dismissed Washington’s move to trigger the so-called snapback mechanism and restore the United Nations sanctions against Iran despite its departure from the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, saying the US administration’s unilateralism is unpopular and its hegemonic acts are doomed to failure.
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Can the US restore its global supremacy?
Aug 24, 2020 11:19While the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 continues to propagate dangerously across the world, there is no denying that its health risks are real. Unfortunately, it has been used politically by the US to further its trade war against China, with a singular objective of bringing the Chinese to the negotiation table. Beneath this global propaganda lies another, more sinister agenda. It is looking like the US and some of its allies are using the pandemic to cover up their poor governance.
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Why China is taking over the ‘American century’
Aug 22, 2020 02:38Under President Donald Trump, the United States is indeed losing to China in two important spheres. In economic and technical terms China is already a peer competitor of the United States … in a very different kind of globalized world.
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Pompeo: US ready to block Russia, China from violating Iran sanctions
Aug 21, 2020 23:58US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the United States is prepared to block Russia and China from any attempts to violate sanctions against Iran.
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China says US push for Iran sanctions ‘self-serving political manipulation’
Aug 21, 2020 11:56China says the United States’ call for the re-imposition of the United Nations sanctions on Iran is ‘nothing but a self-serving political manipulation,’ stressing once again that Washington has no right to make such a demand after its unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear deal of 2015.
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Trump admin. to get isolated, disgraced once again: Zarif
Aug 21, 2020 07:37Iran’s foreign minister says the US administration’s attempt to snap back the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Tehran will result in nothing but another disgrace for US President Donald Trump.