Hong Kong’s innovation and technology minister has cancelled his trip to the United States, just four hours after the government announced his three-day itinerary for the visit. In a statement issued at 4.20pm on Tuesday, the government said that Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong had cancelled his visit to the US, without…
China risks losing access to satellite tracking stations and other sensitive technology infrastructure in Venezuela after the United States seized control of the country’s leadership and transferred its president Nicolas Maduro to New York for trial. Beijing’s embedded assets – from satellite ground stations to oilfield systems and telecommunications networks – could be compromised after…
China will be patient and play the long game as it views the new geopolitical chessboard, recalibrating carefully in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s move on Saturday to decapitate Venezuela’s leadership, analysts said. In a daring predawn raid, US forces descended on ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and airlifted him shackled and blindfolded…
The United States launched military attacks on Venezuela on Saturday, capturing President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. They were detained in New York after being flown out of Caracas. Hours after the operation, President Donald Trump said the US would run Venezuela until there was a “safe, proper and judicious” transition. 03:31 Trump pledges…
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States would maintain direct control of Venezuela to prevent “somebody else” taking it over after a military operation that captured President Nicolas Maduro, pledging to keep oil flowing to China even as Washington signalled it would manage the transition itself. Washington later confirmed that Maduro…
The strikes on Venezuela by the United States which eventually led to the “capture” of President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, January 3, came just hours after Maduro had hosted dignitaries from China, an ally and fellow Communist regime. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro received Qiu Xiaoqi, special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping for Latin America…
Xi Jinping could absorb Taiwan. Lai Ching-te could declare Taiwan independence. Donald Trump would defend Taiwan if China attacks. Two of these assumptions hold. One is the lie — and which one you choose likely depends on your politics. This week, Beijing sharpened the question once again. On January 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping used…
On December 16, Chinese President Xi Jinping, on receiving a work report from Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, said the city should proactively align with the country’s 15th five-year plan and better integrate into, and serve, the national development agenda. In recent days, discussion of the coming plan across the Hong Kong government…
An Australian meat industry peak body says China’s move to impose an added 55 per cent tariff on beef imports that exceed quota levels from several countries including Australia will have a “severe impact” and that it is “extremely disappointed”. China’s commerce ministry on Wednesday explained the tariffs, also impacting Brazil and the United States,…
China is expected to solidify its position as a hi-tech manufacturing powerhouse over the next decade as it edges closer to “innovation and excellence” alongside the United States, Germany and Japan, according to new reports issued by Chinese institutions. The documents, published on Tuesday, stated that China had achieved its “strategic goal” of becoming the…