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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 1500 GMT, July 21

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Chinese government on Tuesday airlifted 25 of its citizens it evacuated over the weekend from the conflict-hit South Sudan back to Beijing for security and safety reasons.

The evacuation is part of the emergency measures the Chinese government is taking to protect its citizens in the recent fighting between government troops of President Salva Kiir and forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar in Juba.

The remains of two Chinese UN peacekeepers, Corporal Li Lei, 22 and Master Sergeant Yang Shupeng, 33 who were killed after a mortal shell hit the armored vehicle they were moving around the UN compound were also lifted back to China on Tuesday. (China-South Sudan)

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday announced its preliminary affirmative determination in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation against imports of large residential washing machines from China, signaling that it may pose punitive duties on the products.

The department said that such products from China had been sold in the United States at dumping margins of 49.88 percent to 111.09 percent.

(US-Antidumping)

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ALGIERS -- China remains Algeria's top supplier in the first half of 2016 with 4.17 billion U.S. dollars, the National Center for Data Processing and Statistics (CNIS) said on Wednesday in a report.

Assuring about 17.7 percent of Algeria's overall imports in the first six months, China has been the largest supplier of Algeria for the last three years and a half, said the CNIS. (Algeria-China-Trade)

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GENEVA -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) kicked off a regular review of China's trade policy on Wednesday, enabling members to examine China's trade policy and practices over the past two years.

Wang Shouwen, head of the Chinese delegation and China's Vice Minister of Commerce, briefed trade representatives on China's economic development, progress in the trade and investment sector, major reform measures and opening-up steps, participation in the multilateral trading system, and assumption of the role as a responsible major country(WTO-China-Trade Policy)

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government determined Wednesday it would maintain the existing antidumping duty (AD) orders on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China, Brazil, Japan and Thailand.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) concluded in a ruling that revoking the current antidumping and countervailing duty orders on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from those countries would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. (US-Antidumping-Steel) Endi