Jihadi-Ruled Syria Seeks ‘Strategic Partnership’ with China
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Monday that the junta in Damascus wants to “strengthen relations with China” and develop a “strategic partnership.”

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Monday that the junta in Damascus wants to “strengthen relations with China” and develop a “strategic partnership.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun insisted on Friday that “fentanyl is the U.S.’s problem, not China’s.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday announced sanctions against several American officials, including members of Congress, who allegedly “performed poorly” on issues related to Hong Kong.
China’s increasingly shrill and desperate efforts to prove itself tough and fearless against President Donald Trump’s tariffs hit a new low on Thursday, when Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning decided to post old footage of Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party – and the worst mass murderer in history.
The U.S.-China trade war heated up on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China soared to a total of 104 percent and China retaliated by announcing an 84 percent levy on U.S. goods.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry on Thursday demanded President Donald Trump immediately rescind the tariffs he announced on Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that 12 Chinese nationals have been indicted in a global “hackers-for-hire” scheme.
China accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of “fueling an ideological confrontation” by keeping pace with China’s military spending.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Tuesday that China is “ready to fight till the end” if the United States wants “a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war.”
The Chinese Communist government threw a fit Tuesday after South Korea banned China’s new DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) on security and data privacy grounds.
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD is under investigation for using “irregular visas” to ship workers to Brazil, where they were kept in what Brazilian inspectors described as “slavery-like conditions.”
The Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday reported that Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun is under investigation for corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added 29 more Chinese entities to its list of exporters banned for suspected use of slavery, including companies that manufacture food and metals, from tomato paste to iron ore.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping began a week-long tour of South America on Thursday in Peru, where he joined President Dina Boularte to inaugurate a new deep-water port in Chancay that was financed with a $1.3 billion investment from China.
The government of South Africa on Friday asked the Taipei Liaison Office, the de facto embassy of Taiwan, to rename itself as a “Trade Office” and relocate from South Africa’s capital city of Pretoria.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it wants to ban Chinese and Russian software and hardware from Internet-connected and autonomous vehicles, citing the security risks to American drivers and U.S. national security.
A ten-year-old Japanese boy died from his wounds on Thursday morning after he was stabbed by a 44-year-old Chinese man near a school in Shenzhen, China.
China lodged a formal complaint for “illegal and improper” actions by a Japanese destroyer that entered Chinese territorial waters on July 4.
A militant group known as the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) attacked a gold mine linked to China on Wednesday.
A cybersecurity team called the Insikt Group found that Chinese hackers intensified their attacks on Taiwan during its presidential election.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi claimed that America is “obsessed with suppressing China” and needs to protect its “credibility.”
Chinese officials and state media predictably set their hair on fire after Lai Ching-te won Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, extending the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) hold on power to an unprecedented third term.
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he still regards Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a “dictator,” prompting a testy response from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which denounced Biden’s remarks as an “irresponsible political maneuver” without explaining why Xi should be considered in any different light.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday quoted Chinese sources who claimed to have solved the mystery of Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s disappearance.
A column on China’s diplomacy in Africa in the state-run newspaper Global Times on Sunday noted “China’s foreign minister” engaged in a tour of the continent in January – a notable observation given the column did not name Foreign Minister Qin Gang who has been missing for a month.
The strange disappearance of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has become a major embarrassment for the regime in Beijing, as speculation grows that he has been silenced and purged for political reasons or personal misbehavior.
The Chinese government announced on Wednesday that it has taken “appropriate” measures in retaliation for India refusing to grant visas to Chinese reporters.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday claimed the allegedly leaked classified documents from the Pentagon “clearly show that the US has long used its tech edge to conduct indiscriminate secret theft, surveillance and eavesdropping on countries in the world, including its allies.”
Former Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian was among the Communist regime’s most aggressive, and frequently offensive, spokesmen, trafficking in all sorts of deranged conspiracy theories and slander against China’s adversaries.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday blamed the United States for Afghanistan’s vast narcotics industry and demanded the U.S. government should “apologize and compensate for its dishonorable role in the Afghan drug problem.”
Russia and China on Monday both denied allegations by U.S. officials that Russia has asked China to provide military equipment to assist the invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration issued public warnings to Beijing on Monday that it must not do anything to assist the Russian war effort or help Moscow evade international sanctions.
Chinese state media on Sunday swooned over American snowboarder Tessa Maud, who won no medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics but made herself useful to the Chinese Communist Party by praising her hosts and gushing over the Olympic Village accommodations, at a time when other athletes were complaining about hideous food and substandard living conditions.
Syrian photographer Ali Haj Suleiman on Thursday blew the whistle on China’s Foreign Ministry for fraudulently presenting photos he took in Idlib as if they were snapshots of Afghanistan devastated by the U.S. invasion.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry published a “report” Sunday announcing the death of American democracy at the hands of wealth, racism, and “too many checks and balances.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry finally commented Tuesday on the case of tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared after making bombshell rape allegations against a senior Chinese Communist Party official.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday denied reports that it stunned U.S. intelligence analysts by testing a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, while the Biden White House responded to the report by saying it “welcomes stiff competition” from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Former President Donald Trump’s use of the term “China virus” last year as a descriptive for the coronavirus has sparked a lawsuit by a civil rights group.