OAKLAND: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that a Chinese researcher, accused of visa fraud for hiding her affiliation with the Chinese military, has been holed up in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco for a month, according to court filings. The filings in US District Court in San […]
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SHANGHAI: The move by the United States government to shut down China’s consulate in Houston is an attempt to blame Beijing for American failures ahead of presidential elections in November, Chinese state media said in editorials published on Thursday (Jun 23). The United States said on Wednesday it had given […]
WASHINGTON: The US demand this week that China close its consulate in Houston is the latest in a string of disputes that have taken the relationship between the world’s two biggest economies to its lowest point in decades. Here are the main points of contention between Beijing and Washington: CORONAVIRUS […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump announced a plan on Wednesday (Jul 22) to send federal agents to more US cities to crack down on violent crime in an escalation of his “law and order” theme going into the Nov 3 presidential election. Trump, joined at a White House event by Attorney […]
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged India on Wednesday (Jul 22) to focus on domestic supply chains and reduce its dependence on China for telecommunications and medical supplies, as Washington’s ties with Beijing deteriorate dramatically. India had a chance to move “supply chains away from China and […]
The US is rallying around a strategy of decoupling but will face pushback from China and affected countries, says Mohamed A El-Erian. LAGUNA BEACH, Californa: Not a day seems to pass without further evidence of the mounting economic tensions between China and the United States, the world’s two largest economies. […]
WASHINGTON: The closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston is the latest salvo in a battle between the United States and China for economic and technological supremacy that is shaping up as a new Cold War and includes a high-stakes race for a COVID-19 vaccine. THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS The United […]
LONDON: Britain’s route to citizenship for almost three million people in Hong Kong will open in January 2021, and applicants will not need a job to come to the country, interior minister Priti Patel said on Wednesday (Jul 22). “We are planning to open the Hong Kong BN(O) (British National […]
COPENHAGEN: The US State Department said on Wednesday (Jul 22) that the closing of China’s consulate in Houston was to protect Americans’ intellectual property and private information, a move that has further strained the already tense relations between the world powers. Spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said that under the Vienna Convention, […]
BEIJING: The United States has ordered China to close its Houston consulate, Beijing said Wednesday (Jul 22), in what it called a “political provocation” that will further harm diplomatic relations. “China urges the US to immediately withdraw its wrong decision, or China will definitely take a proper and necessary response,” […]