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Australia lures soldiers with bonus to stay in military amid tensions with China
May 02, 2023 09:55The Australian government has announced that military personnel who will stay in uniform after completing the three-year compulsory service will receive A$50,000 ($33,165), amid rising tensions between its ally the US and China.
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Chinese senior diplomat meets with Syria’s Assad
Apr 29, 2023 11:11China's Special Envoy for West Asia, Zhai Jun, has met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, following the recent efforts on retaining a political solution for the long-running Syrian conflict.
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Iran declares readiness to expand military drills with China to counter West’s unilateralism
Apr 29, 2023 03:38Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has expressed Tehran's readiness to expand joint military drills with China as part of a bid to further develop bilateral strategic ties and counter the West’s unilateralism.
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Ukraine has received nearly all pledged combat vehicles, NATO chief claims
Apr 27, 2023 10:08US-led NATO allies and partners have provided Ukraine with 1,550 armored vehicles and 230 tanks, chief of the US-led military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg has claimed.
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China warns US, S Korea against ‘stirring tensions' with Pyongyang
Apr 27, 2023 09:38China has warned the US and South Korea against "stirring up tensions" and "provoking confrontation" with the North following Washington’s decision to deploy nuclear submarines to Seoul to purportedly protect it against Pyongyang.
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Peace talks only way out of Ukraine war, China’s Xi tells Ukraine’s Zelensky
Apr 27, 2023 04:05Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, the only way to end the war in Ukraine is negotiation between Kiev and Moscow.
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Argentina to pay for Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars
Apr 27, 2023 03:37The global trend of substituting the US dollar with local currencies in trade transactions is speeding up as more countries are ditching the greenback.
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China on alert after EU calls for naval patrols in Taiwan Strait
Apr 26, 2023 11:29Chinese authorities is on high alert and prepared for any action posing a threat to China's sovereignty and territory, Beijing has declared after the EU’s top diplomat called for European navy patrols in the Taiwan Strait.
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China becomes Iran’s top trade partner in 2022: IRICA
Apr 24, 2023 06:53The statistics for the foreign trade indicate that Iran has exported a total of 122 million tons of goods, valued at $53 billion, during the previous Iranian year (March 21, 2022 until March 20, 2023), $14.5 billion of which was earned by the exports to China.
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China lodges complaint with South Korea over Taiwan remarks
Apr 24, 2023 04:01China has lodged a complaint with South Korea over “erroneous” remarks made by the country’s president about Chinese Taipei (Taiwan).