SHANGHAI: Washington’s plan to ban certain technologies of Chinese origin is a sign of “madness” in US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China’s state-backed tabloid Global Times wrote in an editorial on Thursday (Aug 6). “Pompeo has uttered anti-China remarks almost every day, and constantly played tricks to intensify conflicts […]
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President Ashraf Ghani’s government has released all but 400, saying their crimes were too grave. KABUL: Afghanistan will convene a grand assembly of elders, known as the loya jirga, in Kabul on Friday to decide the fate of hundreds of prisoners the Taliban insist should be released before entering […]
The White House said in a statement the order will “create a policy where Federal agencies will focus on United States labor in lucrative Federal contracts” as it will be :unfair” for federal government agencies to “ replace perfectly qualified Americans with workers from other countries”. President Donald Trump signed […]
Donald Trump has said the US should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if it is bought by an American firm. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft’s […]
“In light of the latest developments, France will not proceed as it stands with the ratification of the extradition agreement signed on May 4, 2017 between France and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement. France on Monday said it was halting ratification […]
The two countries have already exchanged several tit-for-tat actions involving journalists in recent months, with the US designating multiple Chinese state or Communist Party-backed media as foreign embassies. SHANGHAI: China will take retaliatory measures if all Chinese journalists based in the United States are forced to leave the country, […]
At least 29 people have been killed in an attack on a prison in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad which saw more than 1,000 inmates try to flee. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group (IS), began on Sunday evening when car bombs were detonated at the […]
BEIJING: China said on Monday (Aug 3) it will suspend its extradition agreement with New Zealand in response to Wellington suspending its existing extradition treaty with Hong Kong. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin announced the decision at a daily briefing. New Zealand last week suspended its extradition treaty with […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has agreed to give China’s ByteDance 45 days to negotiate a sale of popular short-video app TikTok to Microsoft Corp, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday (Aug 3). US officials have said TikTok under its Chinese parent poses a national risk because of […]
WASHINGTON: The White House and Donald Trump’s campaign on Sunday (Aug 2) sought to shut down the Republican president’s musings on delaying the 2020 vote, saying there will be an election on Nov 3. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Trump was raising concerns about mail-in ballots when […]