Amid US-Iranian diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire, a covert 'shadow fleet' of oil tankers, primarily backed by China, continues to move billions of dollars in Iranian oil. This illicit trade ...

China orders firms to defy U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil in what analysts call an unprecedented escalation of Beijing's resistance to Washington.

The escalation comes ahead of President Trump’s visit to Beijing planned for next week.

The Treasury Department warned it would target those doing business with Chinese "teapot refineries," which handle Iranian crude.

BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) - China voiced strong opposition on Monday to U.S. sanctions for three China-based companies that Washington claimed enabled Iran's military operations, calling the curbs ...

The Chinese government reportedly altered the spelling of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name ahead of his trip to Beijing with President Trump as a “diplomatic workaround” to sanctions barring him ...

A US move to sanction one of China’s largest private refiners over ties to Iran will hurt a vast and already embattled ...

The Hengli Group, built by a husband and wife duo over three decades from a bankrupt textile mill into a Fortune Global 500 giant and one of China's largest private oil refiners, has been thrust into ...

China ordered companies in the country not to comply with US sanctions on five domestic refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade, deploying a blocking measure introduced in 2021 that was aimed at ...

Chinese tech giant Huawei said Monday that it had achieved a breakthrough that would allow it to make cutting-edge chips ...

China urged Washington on Tuesday to immediately end its embargo and ​sanctions on Cuba, saying the expanded ‌measures were ...

From Nixon visiting during the Cold War to Clinton navigating the optics of being welcomed in Tiananmen Square, presidential trips to China have always been fraught.