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Escalation in Mideast may cause losses exceeding 2025 regional cumulative GDP

April 1, 2026 2026-04-01

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after the alliance failed to join the attacks on Iran, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
The foreign ministers of Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, as well as the High Representative of the European Union, strongly condemned the recent attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) contingents in a joint statement on Tuesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
In 2021, the Lancang-Mekong Sweet Spring Action, supported by China through the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund, brought a turning point to Hatkeep village. The project team introduced rural water supply technologies, constructing intake points, laying pipelines, and installing water purification equipment. By May 27, 2021, the system was fully operational, ending the villagers' long walks for water and easing their anxiety over water scarcity.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
More than 9,000 families have been displaced in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province following a series of cross-border rocket attacks, local media outlet Tolo news reported on Wednesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
China expresses serious concerns over Japan's deployment of long-range missiles in Kumamoto and Shizuoka prefectures, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​UN mandate-related reform should focus on achieving tangible results while steering clear of formalism and bureaucratic practices and avoiding past pitfalls, such as creating redundant and overlapping structures, a Chinese envoy said Tuesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​Demonstrations were held in Japan on Tuesday evening as citizens voiced strong opposition to the government's decision to deploy long-range missiles in the country.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
The Palestinian Presidency on Monday condemned the approval of a law by the Israeli parliament that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners convicted of "terrorism."
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​Russia does not accept a temporary truce in the conflict in Ukraine and instead calls for lasting peace, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. military will leave Iran in two or three weeks.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​Six crew members and 23 passengers were killed when a Russian An‑26 military transport plane crashed in Crimea, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed early Wednesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​Britain will provide additional air defense support to Gulf partners as regional tensions continue to escalate, according to a statement released by the British government on Tuesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that mediation efforts of the Pakistani side regarding the Middle East tensions are in the common interests of all parties.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​China and Pakistan put forward a five-point initiative for restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East region during talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar in Beijing on Tuesday.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
​An Iranian official said Tuesday that U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have destroyed several historic buildings and damaged universities across Iran.
April 1, 2026 2026-04-01
China firmly opposes armed attacks against peaceful nuclear facilities under the safeguards and monitoring of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), advocating the peaceful settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue through political and diplomatic means, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
March 31, 2026 2026-03-31
​The international community needs to stay on high alert against the rightward turn of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and trend of remilitarization in Japan, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
March 31, 2026 2026-03-31
​China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with a high-level delegation of the Austria-China Friendship Association, led by Austrian Federal Council President Markus Stotter, in Beijing on Tuesday.
March 31, 2026 2026-03-31
​Exchanges between legislative bodies are an important part of China-EU relations, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday.
March 31, 2026 2026-03-31
​Seated at a console inside a hospital in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Piotr Suwalski, a Polish doctor, fixed his gaze on the screen ahead of him while manipulating a surgical robot located more than 7,000 km away in Poland.
March 31, 2026 2026-03-31
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