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Australia mocks China’s ‘silly’ AUKUS concerns

Australia’s Defense Minister derided a senior Chinese diplomat’s comments as “silly” and “comical,” after the latter dubbed Canberra’s trilateral nuclear-powered submarine pact with the US and UK a threat to peace. During a television interview on Friday, Peter Dutton said acting Chinese Ambassador Wang Xining was “probably reading off a script from the Communist Party” […]

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‘Sour grapes’: Chinese media boss mocks Washington Post’s ‘jealousy’ over Beijing’s strict Covid-control practices

The editor-in-chief of The Global Times, a Chinese state-run publication, has taunted the US and The Washington Post after the American paper highlighted China’s small Covid-19 outbreak and criticized its strict countermeasures. On Friday, Hu Xijin, The Global Times chief, took to Twitter to accuse The Washington Post and, more generally, the US of being […]

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Chinese Foreign Ministry mocks US over Afghanistan, says its ‘war machines’ have become Taliban playground

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has mocked the US and the chaotic collapse of the Washington-backed Afghan regime they left behind, as he shared footage of Taliban soldiers using captured aircraft as a swing. On Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a video on his Twitter account, claiming Afghanistan was the “graveyard of […]