China said Friday it was ending cooperation with the United States on key issues including climate change — a move Washington decried as “fundamentally irresponsible” as relations between the two superpowers nosedive over Taiwan. The damaging rift, which carries significant geostrategic risk, was triggered by Chinese fury over a visit by US House Speaker Nancy … Read more
Beijing insists that Taiwan is a part of China awaiting reunification, by force if necessary. Washington: The White House summoned China’s ambassador to Washington to condemn the “irresponsible” behavior of Beijing over Taiwan, a senior US official said Friday. John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, said that Ambassador Qin Gang was summoned following … Read more
One photo has summed up the mind-boggling difference in Covid rules between two neighbouring Chinese districts. The image, shared on social media by Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow for global health Yanzhong Huang, shows locals on one side of a street lining up for Covid tests, while on the other, diners are enjoying their … Read more
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It didn’t take long Tuesday for Beijing to remind the world of the stakes, as Nancy Pelosi’s plane touched down in Taiwan. Soon after the U.S. House Speaker landed, becoming the highest ranking American official in 25 years to carry out an informal visit to the self-ruling democracy, the Chinese government announced a series of … Read more
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is a principled woman. Her visit to Taiwan is entirely consistent with the admirable stance she’s displayed against the Chinese government since it massacred thousands of its own protesting citizens in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Pelosi has been a Cassandra figure on Capitol Hill for … Read more
BEIJING, China — The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, confirmed Sunday she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has riled Beijing, which claims the island democracy as its own territory. Pelosi said in a statement she is leading a … Read more
B ritish firms are scrambling to severe economic ties with China in the wake of increased political and security tensions between Beijing and the West, an industry leader has said. The sudden restructuring of supply chains from China could also exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis, Confederation of British Industry (CBI) director-general Tony Danker warned. Speaking to … Read more
Sir Tony Blair rallies the West to counter rise of China as ‘the world’s second superpower’ The former PM said Western powers need to build ties with developing nations Sir Tony, 69, said China had caught up with the United States in technology He urged Western nations to come together to counter the rise of … Read more
Chinese officials have given an update after yesterday’s massive protest ended with police manhandling angry locals. Customers of rural Chinese banks whose withdrawals have been frozen will begin to get some money back on Friday, regulators said, after depositors clashed with authorities at a rare protest over the weekend. China’s rural banking sector has been … Read more
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VANCOUVER—Canada’s spy agency has warned some municipalities in British Columbia to be wary of foreign interference in local elections this fall. Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service met with him recently, in what he was told was an unprecedented step, to go over concerns the agency has about the possibility foreign … Read more