The death toll from the U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran has risen to 787, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Tuesday.
The IRCS reported that the strikes have affected 153 counties and cities, with 504 locations hit and 1,039 attacks recorded across the country.
In southeastern Iran, a fishing port in the city of Jask was struck, severely damaging more than 100 fishing boats.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday that its warplanes have destroyed Iran's propaganda and media center.
In response, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on the day that it had carried out the 14th wave of strikes, targeting the U.S. air base in the Sheikh Isa area of Bahrain with drones and missiles. The IRGC also reported shooting down seven drones across multiple regions.
Air raid sirens sounded early Tuesday in northern, central and southern Israel.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's defense ministry said two drones attacked the U.S. embassy in Riyadh on Tuesday, causing a fire.
In response to the escalating tensions, the United States closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Tuesday.
Joint military strikes launched by the U.S. and Israel on Iran on Saturday morning have triggered a sharp escalation across the Middle East in recent days, setting off waves of missile exchanges, mounting casualties, and far-reaching political and security repercussions.
Death toll from US-Israel strikes on Iran rises to 787: Iranian Red Crescent Society
Death toll from US-Israel strikes on Iran rises to 787: Iranian Red Crescent Society
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
