China is closely watching whether Israel and Iran can broker a ceasefire. Beijing gets much of its crude oil imports from Iran through a "dark fleet" of vessels to evade American sanctions.

China had pledged to support Iran shortly after Israel's attack on June 12, which Beijing condemned as a "violation of Iran's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity." ...

Iran, Russia, and China have different ideologies, political regimes, and strategic aims. Iran’s relations with its two larger partners are wildly asymmetric. Read: The invisible city of Tehran.

As Washington deepens its military involvement in the Middle East, China is watching closely for both economic fallout and new diplomatic leverage.The Israel- Iran war escalated rapidly following ...

Iran's Aziz Nasirzadeh joined defense ministers from nine SCO member states—including China, Russia, India, and Pakistan—in Qingdao, a strategic Chinese naval base city.

Iran’s defense minister has traveled to diplomatic and economic ally China on his first reported trip abroad since a 12-day clash with Israel that briefly dragged the US into a new regional ...

Beijing is one of Tehran’s most important economic partners. But experts question how much China will help Iran if it retaliates against the United States. By Andrew Ross Sorkin Bernhard Warner ...

Experts also agree that China’s relations with Iran’s regional rivals contribute to its disinclination to beef up Iran’s military. “China has acted as an economic or geoeconomic actor in ...

According to Xu's calculations, China is able to buy the Iranian crude oil at a discount of about 8% compared to the market price, because Iran has few other buyers. Neither China nor Iran publishes ...

China imports about a fifth of Iran’s oil—more than any other country—but it may not be the hardest hit if fighting with the U.S. and Israel jeopardizes Tehran’s daily exports of one to ...

Militarily, the strike on Iran raises the question of whether the U.S. might show less restraint than has been expected by China in its response and hit targets on the Chinese mainland in the ...

Russia, Pakistan and China—a "strategic partner" of Iran, have submitted a draft resolution at the U.N. Security Council calling for an "immediate and unconditional ceasefire," Lin said Monday.