A day after US President Joe Biden warned that Donald Trump’s plan for higher tariffs would be a “major mistake”, his own administration has levied costly new tariffs on imports of critical materials from China. The office of the US trade representative on Wednesday announced that import taxes for solar wafers and polysilicon, an essential…
TAIPEI – Taiwan demanded Wednesday that China end its ongoing military activity in nearby waters, which it said is unilaterally undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and disrupting international shipping and trade. The Foreign Ministry, in a statement posted on its website, said it was responding in part to the activities of a…
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 10, 2024 / 15:15 pm Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi criticized Pope Francis for the Vatican’s deal with China regarding bishop appointments during an interview with the National Catholic Reporter published on Tuesday, Dec. 10. The congresswoman from California and former speaker of the House of Representatives told the outlet…
China is deploying dozens of ships in its biggest maritime mobilisation around Taiwan in years, Taipei said Tuesday, after Beijing voiced fury at President Lai Ching-te’s recent visit to the United States. Taiwanese forces were on high alert in anticipation of Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) staging war games in response to Lai’s US stopovers…
BEIJING – China’s military appears to be preparing for widely anticipated drills in response to a recent visit by Taiwan’s president to Hawaii and Guam. Taiwan’s defense ministry said Monday that it detected Chinese naval and coast guard ships entering the Taiwan Strait and the western Pacific and that China had restricted airspace along its…
The head of federal parliament’s intelligence committee has accused China of going “berserk” over senior US politician Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 visit to Taiwan, while arguing Australia should boost cooperation with fellow democracies to deter Beijing from launching an invasion. Government senator Raff Ciccone, who replaced Labor MP Peter Khalil as chair of the Parliamentary Joint…
China on Thursday defended its rejection of a defence chiefs’ meeting with the United States, blaming it on Washington’s support for Taipei. Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun on Wednesday reportedly declined to meet his US counterpart Lloyd Austin on the margins of a regional security meeting in Laos. Austin said the decision was “unfortunate ……
Military accidents involving China and the US in the South China Sea will be “increasingly likely” during Donald Trump’s second presidential term, but China is better prepared this time, according to a military analyst and retired People’s Liberation Army officer. PLA senior colonel Zhou Bo, now a senior fellow with Tsinghua University’s Centre for International…
An MSNBC host who once served as an aide to President Biden took aim at Nancy Pelosi for engineering his “very public demise” in the final months of the 2024 election — paving the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to eventually lose the race to Donald Trump. Symone Sanders-Townsend, who served as a senior…
Joe Biden will meet US president-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday after the US leader pledged an orderly transfer of power back to the Republican he beat in elections just four years ago. Trump – who never conceded his 2020 loss – sealed a remarkable comeback to the presidency in the November…