NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrat Christian Menefee, a former attorney for Houston’s Harris County, has won a special congressional election in a left-leaning congressional district in Texas, which has been vacant for nearly a year. The Associated Press reports that Menefee defeated former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards, a fellow…
CNN data analyst Harry Enten was stunned as he revealed that Democrats have flipped the GOP’s Trump-led redistricting battle in their favor. The 37-year-old data guru explained how several states’ redistricting efforts could lead to the Democrats potentially gaining one or more House seats on Thursday’s CNN News Central. “It started in Texas. It looked…
A new political row has erupted over China’s claims on the Indian territory of the Shaksgam Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, with the Congress hitting out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for “holding meetings” with the Chinese Communist Party. Congress questioned the optics of the BJP engaging with the CCP, pointing out the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bipartisan lawmakers on the Select Committee on China accused Beijing of escalating tensions in the region on Tuesday, warning that Capitol Hill had taken notice of their military display around Taiwan. “As the world turns toward a new year, the People’s Liberation Army’s live-fire military exercises around…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Congressional Democrats are voicing alarm at the fact that the U.S. might soon begin selling cutting-edge chips to one of its greatest geopolitical adversaries. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote a letter to Under Secretary for Industry and Security Jeffrey Kessler on…
Nine Republican lawmakers, including several congressional committee chairs, sent a letter this week urging US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to add more than a dozen Chinese technology firms to the Pentagon’s list of companies alleged to have links to the Chinese military. The letter, released on Friday after US President Donald Trump signed a US$900…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a sweeping defence bill that would restrict US outbound investment in Chinese technology and curb federal contracts with Chinese biotechnology companies, amid an uneasy trade truce between Washington and Beijing. The bill, known as the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), cleared both the House of Representatives and Senate…
Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Monday defended Mexico’s decision to impose new tariffs on imports from China and other Asian countries, describing the move as a necessary step to protect hundreds of thousands of domestic jobs rather than a provocation to any trading partner. Affected imports span 17 sectors, including textiles, footwear, steel, aluminium, plastics,…
A bipartisan commission focused on the rule of law and human rights in China is recommending that the US Congress scale up immersion programmes for Mandarin and other languages spoken on the mainland in American high schools and universities. The recommendation, made as part of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s (CECC) annual report, comes as…
The US Congress is readying votes on a sprawling bill that would restrict US outbound investment to China in sensitive sectors as well as federal government contracting with Chinese biotechnology companies, two controversial measures that were left out of similar legislation last year. The provisions were included in a compromise defence bill released on Sunday…