Philippine Sen. Manny Pacquiao would “assert” Manila’s territorial rights in the South China Sea before the United Nations (U.N.) if elected president of the Philippines in 2022, Pacquiao’s vice-presidential running mate, Lito Atienza, told reporters on Monday.
John Kerry is drawing scrutiny for his downplaying of China’s slave labor of Uyghurs, from which he and his wife may benefit financially.
Taipei announced on Thursday it had formally opened a de facto embassy in Lithuania using the name of Taiwan.
Beijing’s government imposed new travel restrictions on the city on Wednesday — including canceling or limiting flights into the capital from parts of China deemed at high-risk for coronavirus — just 79 days before Beijing is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported.
The government of Beijing, China’s national capital, announced Tuesday that it would cancel or limit flights into the city from other Chinese regions battling high daily rates of coronavirus for an indefinite amount of time, the state-run Global Times reported.
The Biden tam approved two virus vaccines develped by China to fulfill the inoculation requirement for U.S. entry by land.
Former senior Trump defense official Elbridge Colby is warning China could invade Taiwan in as little as two years, and that Taiwanese who could be at risk should consider extrication plans.
Beijing canceled half of all flights into and out of the city and locked down its most populous neighborhood — considered the “largest residential area in Asia” — on Tuesday to contain the spread of nationwide coronavirus outbreak that threatens to overtake the Chinese national capital just three months before it is scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Chinese health authorities ordered two high-speed trains bound for Beijing to “urgently stop” on Thursday so they could place all passengers and staff under a seven-day quarantine, saying they suspected “close contacts of a positive COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] case were onboard,” the state-run Global Times reported Friday.
House Democrats joined Republicans to introduce a bill to monitor and protect U.S. from communist China’s malign activitities.
Government authorities in Beijing announced Sunday they would postpone the upcoming Beijing Marathon — originally scheduled for October 31 — until an unknown date in an effort to contain a new outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in the national capital, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The smuggling of Australian rock lobsters into mainland China is a threat to the Communist country’s national security and integrity, Hong Kong’s new customs chief said Thursday as she vowed to crack down on the illicit trade.
Boxer-turned-politician Manny Pacquiao, who recently retired from the ring to run for the Philippine presidency in 2022, said Thursday he would not allow his country to “be bullied” by Beijing in the South China Sea if elected president, ABS-CBN reported.
The head of a French delegation of senators on Thursday called Taiwan a “country” during a visit to Taipei.
A delegation of French senators arrived in Taiwan, where they will hold talks with President Tsai Ing-wen, despite strong protests from China.
Beijing on Thursday denounced the new “AUKUS” military pact announced by Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. Wednesday, describing the alliance — which aims to counter China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region — as “extremely irresponsible” and warning it “seriously undermines regional peace.”
The Haidian People’s Court said in a judgment released late Tuesday night that Zhou Xiaoxuan, who had become the face of the country’s #MeToo movement, did not meet the burden of proof in claiming that Zhu Jun, her superior at her place of work, sexually harassed her.
More than half of Hong Kong’s 452 district councilors have quit in recent days to protest a newly required “loyalty” oath to Beijing that pro-China forces within Hong Kong’s government have imposed on the directly elected public officials, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Friday.
U.S. President Joe Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday to discuss bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing and allegedly used some of the 90-minute phone call to “reminisce” with Xi about their previous “travels together,” the Associated Press (AP) reported.
Germany’s new ambassador to China, who was previously a senior adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, has died at age 54.
Several establishment Republicans helped Democrats block a measure that would penalize companies for enabling the Chinese Communist Party’s hosting of next year’s winter Olympics in Beijing during a House Armed Services Committee markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday.
Beijing declared Friday there will be no further examinations of the origins of the coronavirus in China, flatly rejecting calls by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) for a renewed probe into the source of the virus.
Beijing’s government has canceled all large-scale events and exhibitions in the city for the rest of August in an effort to contain the city’s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run China Daily reported Thursday.
Beijing government officials cut off most transport into the city on Monday in an effort to protect China’s national capital from a nationwide surge of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported.
Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of rape, police announced Saturday, following an accusation the former member of the Korean boy band EXO lured young women into sexual relationships.
Beijing on Wednesday recorded its first new cases of the Chinese coronavirus since January as Chinese health officials said a recent outbreak of the disease in eastern China’s Nanjing city continues to spread nationwide, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out anti-Asian American discrimination in the United States during a trip to East Asia this week to reassure allies and partners.
A bipartisan congressional panel on Tuesday criticized brands such as Coca-Cola, Visa, Intel, Airbnb, and Procter & Gamble for sponsoring the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics despite China’s human rights violations, including the genocide of Uyghur Muslims.
Flooding in southwest China’s Sichuan province in recent days displaced about 110,000 people as of Sunday, Chinese government officials said.
Beijing blasted the U.S. for denying visas to Chinese students at risk of stealing intellectual property to enhance China’s military.
Even as Beijing’s puppet government in Hong Kong invoked the coronavirus pandemic to cancel pro-democracy rallies, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organized huge public events Wednesday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding, without the slightest hint of concern for Chinese coronavirus transmission or social distancing.
A Republican House Intelligence Committee investigation has found China’s malign influence deepening across corporate America, including in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, agriculture, entertainment, media, finance, sports, and technology sectors, Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) revealed Sunday.
Frank Gaffney likened the 2022 Winter Olympics scheduled to be held in Beijing, China, to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany,
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) has launched a protest of the 2022 Olympic “Genocide Games” scheduled to take place in China.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology did keep live bats on its premises, a report by Sky News Australia revealed Sunday, contradicting the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) which has always maintained such suggestions are a conspiracy.
A small group of mothers of those massacred by the Chinese Communist Party in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on June 4, 1989, organized their annual remembrance ceremony in the city on Friday.
Panelists and lawmakers at a House hearing urged a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China because of human rights abuses.
Australia will invest $580 million to upgrade four of its northern military bases and expand “war gaming” exercises with the United States, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday. “Our focus is on pursuing peace, stability, and a free and
Officials in Beijing on Tuesday imposed a hefty fine on the producers of a stand-up comedy show that was deemed “offensive” for unspecified reasons. It was the first case in which Beijing’s increasingly popular comedy scene was punished for content violations.
The customs agency for Beijing released data on Monday that showed trade with the United States increasing by 133.4% in the first quarter of 2021 to reach $12.5 billion. Total trade for the city with all partners was up by 8.8 percent from the pandemic year of 2020, and 1.9 percent higher than pre-pandemic totals in 2019.
