Iranian President Hassan Rohani says Iran and China have agreed to expand bilateral relations and boost trade to $600 billion over the next 10 years.

• Date: 24.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Tehran on Friday to discuss improvement of economic and political ties after lifting of international sanctions because of Iran's disputed nuclear program, state TV said.

• Date: 22.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Israel bristled on Sunday at the lifting of international sanctions on Iran and vowed to flag up any violations of its arch-foe's nuclear restrictions while drawing on U.S. defense aid to prepare for a possible military face-off in the future.

• Date: 17.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 17.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

For China, whose President Xi Jinping is already taking an increasingly muscular approach to claims in the East and South China Sea, the question of Taiwan trumps any other of its territorial assertions in terms of sensitivity and importance.

• Date: 17.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 17.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump called for higher tariffs on Chinese goods if China does not stop allowing its yuan currency to devalue.

• Date: 15.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 15.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.rferl.org

The Philippines has asked the United States to hold joint naval patrols, a defense ministry spokesman said on Thursday, amid a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea.

• Date: 14.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 14.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Diplomats from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the United States, and China held talks in Islamabad to try to draw up a plan for peace talks between in Afghanistan's government and the Taliban.

• Date: 11.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 11.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

The United States called on China on Thursday to end "business as usual" with its ally North Korea after Pyongyang defied world powers by announcing it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

• Date: 07.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 07.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/