When Beijing brokered a historic peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia last year, it was seen as a milestone for China's proactive engagement with the Middle East. For Tehran, which has been under economic and geopolitical pressure from US President Joe ...

Iran invested USD 1 billion in a French uranium enrichment plant. In return, Iran gained the right to 10 percent of the enriched uranium output.

Fujian was Mahnaz's favorite place during the trip. As the starting point of the "Maritime Silk Road", Fujian has a long history and splendid civilization. Before coming to China, Mahnaz had learned a lot about the Belt and Road Initiative.

Now that Iran is weakened, it’s time to turn our attention to Turkey. It will take more than the destruction of Hamas, the disarmament of Hezbollah, and the fall of the Assad dictatorship to put an end to the threat posed to the world by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Iran’s stronger relations with Russia and China have also added to its resilience. In March 2021, China and Iran signed a 25-year Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement that enhances bilateral relations and includes $400 billion investments in ...

Bashar al-Assad was an ally of both Iran and Russia, Beijing's key partners. Here is how his fall is being seen in China.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the country's oil industry and control up to half the exports that generate most of Tehran's revenue and fund its proxies across the Middle East,

China is preparing for war. The United States is distracted and distant. And Beijing seems to have a strategy — one that will exploit both Washington ’s inability to focus and its depleted industrial base. America must reckon with both China’s ambitions and capabilities while having an honest accounting of its own.

When Beijing brokered a historic peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia last year, it was seen as a milestone for China’s proactive engagement with the Middle East. For Tehran, which has been ...

Even those who wish to focus solely on a possible conflict with China should recognize that Beijing has allies who almost certainly would come to its aid.

"Iran must respect the will of the Syrian people and the country's sovereignty and security," Syria’s new Foreign Minister wrote on X.

The US faces Trump's isolationism and protectionism, China is in economic and social peril and the Middle East is in turmoil. The tectonic plates of empire are surely shifting