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relations at International Crisis Group. Trump, for his part, has appeared unbothered by China's close relationship with Tehran. While the US recently sanctioned a China-based refinery for transporting Iranian oil, the president last
China-US relations. He was right, but perhaps not in the way he expected. Wang was speaking before a planned visit by Donald Trump
China’s relations with Iran on Monday comes ahead of US President Donald Trump’s [expected visit
visit to China, including Nvidia boss Jensen Huang (pictured with Trump in April 2025). Photograph: Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images “Trump came into office last year, with the sense that he was going to reduce
visit comes a week before Trump is due to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15. Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged China to press Iran to ease
visit Iran’s foreign minister blamed Washington for the failure of peace talks. “The US approaches caused the previous round of negotiations, despite progress, to fail to reach its goals because of the excessive demands
relative neutrality in the conflict to take the role of “adult in the room”. [A three-day visit to Tehran](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/pakistan-military-chief-asim-munir-unlikely-peacemaker-iran-war) last week by Pakistan’s powerful military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir
related to the [Iran](https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran) war has been released** **and has left the Gulf nation**, after being acquitted of “spreading false information”. A US state department official said on Friday that Ahmed Shihab
Relations between the United States and India are at a crossroads yet again: this time, over New Delhi’s decade-long investment in Iran’s Chabahar Port. India’s most ambitious connectivity project
visit, initially scheduled for earlier this year but [postponed in March](/news/2026/3/18/trump-delays-meeting-with-chinas-xi-jinping-as-war-on-iran-rages) due to the US-Israel war on Iran, comes as the US president struggles to contain the fallout from the war, both
US President Donald Trump cancelled a planned visit to Islamabad by special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner last weekend. Iran has ruled out direct negotiations with Washington while the blockade remains in place, though
visit next month to [India](https://www.theguardian.com/world/india) by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is seeking to ease recent tensions between the normally friendly powers. On Wednesday Trump posted a 4-page
related to preventing Tehran from being able to expand its nuclear programme. At the weekend, Iran sent counter-proposals that Trump dismissed out of hand.  is likely to revive its offer to Iran to take some of the stockpile, something
China. The talk of Russia as a linchpin of a new multipolar world order rings a tad hollow today, not least because no heavy equipment was marched through during the parade out of fear
related to the ceasefire”. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty spoke with both his Qatari and Iranian counterparts. France’s Jean-Noel Barrot insisted that Europe had played a “constructive role” in the crisis. After
visited Islamabad … so far” and Iran’s chief negotiator, parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, accused the US president of seeking to turn the negotiating table into a “table of surrender”. “We do not accept negotiations
relations analyst based in Tehran, said the week’s diplomatic signals reflected a sober reassessment in Washington of what was achievable. “Moving towards a memorandum of understanding, a framework for future talks, is a good