KDP President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with Cui Wei, the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China, July 3, 2024. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Representatives of oil companies attend the launch of the fifth and sixth licensing rounds for 29 oil and gas fields, at the Oil Ministry headquarters in Baghdad on May 11, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters attends a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Indo-Pacific partners at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on April 4, 2024. (Photo: Johanna Geron/AFP)
People wait in line to cast their ballots and vote in the presidential election at a polling station in Taipei, Jan. 13, 2024. (Photo: I-Hwa Cheng/AFP)
Rescue workers search a house for survivors after an earthquake in Kangdiao village, Dahejia, Jishishan County, in northwest China’s Gansu province, Dec. 19, 2023. (Photo: STR/AFP)
Erbil Governor Omed Khoshnaw (right) during his meeting with Liu Jun, Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Erbil, Nov. 12, 2023. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)
a worker holds a charging cable next to electric buses at Antuoshan charging station in Shenzhen, China's southern Guangdong province, Oct. 18, 2023. (Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP)
Safeen Dizayee, the head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the KRG (right), during his meeting with Liu Jun, Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Erbil, Oct. 4, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) and First Lady Asma al-Assad (2-R) being welcomed upon their arrival at the airport in Beijing, September 21, 2023. (Photo: Sana/AFP)
Combined photos of Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) attending a meeting in April 2023 and Syria's Bashar al-Assad during a televised speech. (Photo: Designed by AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani (left) shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh, Dec. 9, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi premier's office)