Tag: China and US
Xi Jinping’s spent two days outside China in 2023 as problems mount
BEIJING: Two days is all President Xi Jinping has spent outside his country this year, as mounting domestic problems from a faltering economy to rare…
China warns its citizens on ‘entrapment’ by US law enforcement
BEIJING: China issued an unusual warning to its citizens traveling to the US to beware of “entrapment” by American law enforcement, in a fresh show…
China threatens retaliation if US House speaker meets Taiwan president
BEIJING/TAIPEI: China threatened to retaliate on Wednesday if US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her planned transit of the United…
China diplomatic offensive lays down new challenge for US
WASHINGTON: Few expect Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s diplomacy to yield breakthroughs on the Ukraine war. But in Washington, there are fears Beijing may succeed elsewhere…
‘Invisible hand’: Xi Jinping condemns US-led ‘suppression of China’
NEW DELHI: In a rare, direct aim at America, Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized the United States’s attempts to suppress and contain China during his…
Biden: State of Union: US is ‘unbowed, unbroken’, Joe Biden says
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden said on Tuesday night that if China threatens US sovereignty, US will act to protect the country.“I am committed to work…
China’s second spy balloon: Everything we know about it
As the US attempts to recover the sunken remains of a huge Chinese surveillance balloon it blasted out of the sky with a missile, Beijing…
Why didn’t Pentagon shoot down Chinese spy balloon floating over the US?
WASHINGTON: The US defense department said Thursday it’s monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon floating over the western state of Montana, underscoring mutual suspicion between…