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  • China’s Top Priority In Afghanistan Is Stability, Experts Say

    “The main concern is that whatever problems there are in Afghanistan stay in Afghanistan,” said Andrew Small, a senior transatlantic fellow in the German Marshall Fund’s Asia program. “They want the Taliban to establish a government that at least jumps through enough hoops that it can reach diplomatic legitimacy….They don’t want a pariah state on its border again.”

  • Saudi league aiming to replace China as Asia’s top drawcard

    “It was an honor to play for a big club like Guangzhou in China but I'm very happy to be in Saudi Arabia,” Talisca said after joining Al-Nassr. “There are a lot of great players coming here and the league has a lot of potential to grow. It's an exciting time to be here.”

  • US warns Middle East allies not to give China a military base

    “There are certain categories of cooperation with the PRC that we cannot live with,” the State Department’s Mira Resnick, a deputy assistant secretary in the bureau of political-military affairs, told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee. “And we have made that clear.”

  • China Meets With Taliban, Stepping Up as U.S. Exits Afghanistan

    At the session with Taliban co-founder and political office chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi called the Taliban a pivotal military and political force in Afghanistan that is expected to play an important role in reconstructing the country, according to China’s Foreign Ministry.

  • UAE to Burn Mountains of Trash as China Stops Importing Waste

    The United Arab Emirates is building one of the world’s largest waste-to-energy plants to deal with its growing trash load. Dubai is constructing a $1.1 billion facility that will burn garbage to generate power. A smaller plant -- the UAE’s first on a commercial scale -- will start operating this year in the emirate of Sharjah. Once two other projects in Abu Dhabi are finished, the country may incinerate almost two-thirds of the household waste it currently produces.

  • China’s low-carbon energy transition goals rely on big coal mines

    China wants to cut carbon emissions, and has set itself the ambitious goal of being carbon neutral by 2060. To get anywhere close to achieving that task, it will have to sharply curtail its coal consumption, which for decades has made up the bulk of its energy mix.

  • U.S. Weighs New Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Sales to China if Nuclear Talks Fail

    U.S. negotiators have been working with European and other international partners in Vienna since April to revive the 2015 deal that limits Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for an easing of broad sanctions. As those talks falter, the U.S. is running through options intended to induce Iran to keep negotiating or punish it if it doesn’t, according to U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter.

  • Opinion: How the Afghanistan Withdrawal Costs the U.S. With China

    Yet as details of the Biden administration’s post-withdrawal strategy for Afghanistan emerge, its benefits for American competitiveness against Beijing look nebulous. In fact, the U.S. departure from Kabul could end up undermining, rather than strengthening, America’s strategic hand against China.

  • China’s Saudi oil imports plunge 21%

    Imports from second-largest supplier Russia also dropped from a month earlier, to 5.44 million tonnes, or 1.28 million bpd. The scale-backs by the top two exporters were in line with a steep annual decline of nearly 15% to this year's lowest total crude imports into China. Imports from United Arab Emirates arrivals fell 25% last month from year-ago levels.

  • Apple’s new encrypted browsing feature won’t be available in China, Saudi Arabia and more: report

    It’s unclear whether Private Relay will simply be excluded from system upgrades for users in China and the other countries where it’s restricted, or it will be blocked by internet providers in those regions. It also remains to be seen whether the feature will be available to Apple users in Hong Kong, which has seen an increase in online censorship in the past year.