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US sanctions Chinese companies for helping Iran circumvent petroleum sanctions

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Two Chinese state-run entities are being placed under sanctions by the U.S. State and Treasury Departments for helping Iran circumvent sanctions on exporting petroleum and petrochemical products. The sanctioned companies include Zhonggu Storage and Transportation...
Flag of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Credit: Philip Jägenstedt/Flickr.

Report: China cautions Israel against allowing US pressure to dictate relations

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Senior Israeli Foreign Ministry sources said that one of China’s top diplomats last week warned Israel not to allow American pressure to harm relations with Beijing, reported Axios. Liu Jianchao, the head of the Chinese Communist...
The 2018 Chinese International Import Expo in Shanghai. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Chinese diplomat threatened to ‘downgrade relations with Israel over media interview’

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A senior Chinese diplomat has threatened to “downgrade relations” with Israel following an interview published in The Jerusalem Post with Taiwan’s foreign minister, the Post’s editor in chief, Yaakov Katz, tweeted on Tuesday. “Got call from Chinese embassy. Apparently,...
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin via videoconference on Dec. 7, 2021. Credit: Presidential Executive Office of Russia via Wikimedia Commons.

Opposing Putin is about more than sympathy for an underdog

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Americans are so polarized that even when almost everyone basically agrees about something, their instincts tell them to distrust it. That’s what’s happening in the discussion about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Virtually...
President Ronald Reagan visits the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) during celebrations commemorating Independence Day and the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty.

Coalition of the unwilling

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In 1982, President Ronald Reagan addressed the British Parliament, expressing optimism about the “global campaign for democracy now gathering force.” Less than a decade later, the Soviet Union collapsed. After that, it was widely believed that...
Airman 1st Class Olabode Igandan, a 436th Aerial Port Squadron passenger-services apprentice, palletizes ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on Jan. 21, 2022. Credit: U.S. Air Force Photo by Mauricio Campino via Wikimedia Commons.

Why we should care about the fate of Ukraine

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It’s difficult to know where exactly the crisis over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine will end. Yet no matter whether Russian President Vladimir Putin seizes more of the former Soviet satellite nation, conquers...
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics emblem at Tiananmen Square in China's capital on Jan. 29,2022. Credit: Calvin86/Shutterstock.

The ‘genocide Olympics’ gives the lie to human-rights rhetoric

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On his Facebook page last week, Elisha Wiesel—the son of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel—had a poignant accusation for the world, and especially for those who revered the lessons his father...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks with Stuart Eizenstat, the U.S. Special Adviser on Holocaust Issues. Jan. 24, 2021. Source: Screenshot.

Blinken: The stakes of Ukraine-Russia situation are of global consequence

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At a crucial moment for U.S. President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken held a virtual policy session with an Atlanta synagogue on Monday night, where tensions regarding a possible Russian...
Embassy of China in Tel Aviv. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

China overtakes US as Israel’s largest source of imports

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China became Israel’s largest source of imports in 2021 with $10.7 billion, overcoming the previous top spot held by the United States, revealed Israel’s National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. In 2020, imports from the...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Jan. 14, 2021. Credit: Chinese Foreign Ministry.

Beijing latest key player in nuclear negotiations, edging closer towards Tehran

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As nuclear talks between Iran and world powers continue in Vienna, Iran appears to be already eying its next moves. On Jan. 14, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian visited China to discuss the 25-year cooperation...