Xi Jinping has ramped up his rhetoric over China’s ownership of Taiwan in a new speech, prompting immediate pushback across the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese president delivered a New Year’s Eve speech this week in which he reasserted his country’s claim to
The US will enter 2024 with its smallest military in over 80 years, while its adversaries continue to beef up their militaries. Pentagon officials said that the US faces one of its “greatest challenges” yet as it tries to recruit more soldiers
Black Friday? No. Cyber Monday? Nope. Prime Day? Absolutely not. The world’s biggest shopping event happens in China each year – and it’s called Singles Day. Originally a holiday to celebrate being single, as a counter to Valentine’s Day, the event has
China may be using the distraction of the Israel – Hamas war to increase its threat level towards Taiwan, an analyst has suggested. Beijing sent its aircraft carrier Shandong through the Bashi Channel – a strategic gateway between Taiwan and the Philippines
Polling and consulting firm Gallup is to become the latest Western company to pull out of China, it has been claimed. The Washington-based advisory group’s alleged decision to leave the Asian nation comes amid rising scrutiny of Western consultancies as well as
The United States said Monday that it would defend the Philippines against potential threats under a decades-old treaty after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels in the South China Sea. The U.S. and other allies expressed alarm over the
China’s defence minister has been missing for a month but a ministry spokesperson said Thursday that he was “not aware of the situation” – its first public comment on the issue. Senior Colonel Wu Qian, the director of the ministry’s information office,
Rishi Sunak has called the Chinese premier out in person during a tense showdown at the G20, after it emerged a spy had been placed at the heart of Westminster. The Sunday Times revealed a Commons researcher with links to some of
China has released a new map Wednesday that claims control of disputed territories Arunachal Pradesh, Doklam Plateau, and Aksai Chin. While an Indian minister called Bejing’s claims “absurd,” Malaysia’s foreign ministry said that China’s map is “not binding.” The protest over the
Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions. The