Washington, US | Xinhua | The United States is prepared to meet immediately with Russia to finalize a verifiable nuclear arms control agreement, the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday. “We appreciate the Russian Federation’s willingness to make progress on the issue of nuclear arms control,” the statement …
Read More »Trump, Biden attack each other in dueling town halls over coronavirus
Washington, US | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden held competing town halls at the same time on Thursday night via different TV networks, attacking each other over issues ranging from the pandemic response, the QAnon conspiracy theory to the Supreme Court expanding. Answering questions …
Read More »Attempt of U.S., other countries to smear China’s human rights record fails again at UN
United Nations | Xinhua | The attempt of the United States and some other countries to smear China’s human rights record failed again on Tuesday after numerous countries spoke in support of China at the General Debate of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. The United States, Germany, …
Read More »Putin proposes mending Russia-U.S. ties in info security
Moscow, Russia | XINHUA | Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed on Friday to the United States to improve cooperation on international information security. “One of the main strategic challenges today is the risk of a large-scale confrontation in the digital sphere. A special responsibility for its prevention lies with the …
Read More »Robbery of TikTok reveals unabashed U.S. hegemony
Beijing, China | XINHUA | The U.S. government recently coerced ByteDance to sell video-sharing app TikTok’s U.S. business to American companies, repeating its old trick of seizing high-tech enterprises by abusing state power. Media and experts pointed out that the United States used the pretext of national security to carry out …
Read More »U.S. has waged an economic war against Iran – President Rouhani
Tehran, Iran | XINHUA | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the United States has waged an economic war against Iran, official IRNA news agency reported. “We’re in economic war” through U.S. sanctions on Iranian financial, economic and business institutions, Rouhani was quoted as saying. Iran is grappling with …
Read More »U.S. announces Iran sanctions as its unilateral attempt at UN widely ignored
Washington, US | XINHUA | The United States on Monday announced fresh sanctions and measures against entities and individuals related to Iranian nuclear and conventional weapons programs, a move to support its self-claimed UN snapback sanctions widely ignored by the international community. President Donald Trump said that he had issued an …
Read More »Int’l community rejects U.S. unilateral announcement on return of UN sanctions on Iran
Beijing, China | XINHUA | The international community has denounced the unilateral announcement made by the United States to resume United Nations (UN) sanctions on Iran, saying the attempt is illegitimate and that the United States has no right to impose them. Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the UN, on …
Read More »U.S. experts say Biden would oversee different foreign policy
Washington, US | XINHUA | Just two months before the tightest presidential race in recent memory, it remains unknown where the United States will stand on foreign relations after voters cast their ballots. But experts said if challenger Joe Biden is elected, his foreign policy stance on such issues relating …
Read More »Russia denies resumption of UN sanctions against Iran
Moscow, US | XINHUA | The United Nations (UN) Security Council did not take any action that would lead to the resumption of the previous sanctions against Iran, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday. The statement came shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that “the …
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