WASHINGTON: The administration of President Joe Biden has finalised curbs on US investments in sensitive technologies like semiconductors in China that pose a threat to national security, the Treasury Department said on Monday (Oct 28). The new rules, which take effect on Jan 2 next year, will prohibit US-headquartered firms, citizens,Continue Reading
China-based DJI filed a lawsuit against the US Defense Department on Friday ( October 18 ) alleging that adding the drone manufacturer to a list of businesses allegedly working with Beijing’s military was incorrect and had resulted in significant financial losses for the business. A US district judge in WashingtonContinue Reading
China has been using so-called “panda politics” since 1972, when the first creatures were sent to Washington as a gift, following US president Richard Nixon’s traditional visit to the Communist nation. After meeting with Joe Biden at a conference in California in November, Chinese President Xi Jinping stated that theContinue Reading
Chinese hackers hacked into the US broadband providers ‘ networks and obtained data from systems that the federal government uses to wiretap for court-approved wiretapping, according to the Wall Street Journal on Saturday ( October 5 ). Verizon Communications, AT&, T and Lumen Technologies are among the telco firms whoseContinue Reading
Following scrutiny from Congress over its collaboration with organizations allegedly linked to China’s military, Georgia Tech announced on Friday ( Sep 6 ) that it would end its research and educational partnerships in the Chinese cities of Tianjin and Shenzhen. In a letter to Georgia Tech in May, the HouseContinue Reading
” Getting PUTIN OUT OF HERE” For Putin’s second visit to the nation in five years, Genghis Khan Square was decked out with enormous Mongolian and Russian colors on Tuesday. A few protesters holding a sign demanding” Find war crime Putin out of here” had gathered there a day earlier.Continue Reading
SYDNEY: The Pacific Islands Forum has removed references to Taiwan from a communique issued on Friday (Aug 30) after the region’s annual leaders meeting, following complaints by China’s envoy. The bloc of 18 nations includes three members with diplomatic ties to Taiwan, and 15 members who recognise China, a majorContinue Reading
Sullivan raised the importance of” stability” in the Taiwan Strait and “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea, where Beijing and Manila have clashed in recent months. He expressed” issues about ( Chinese ) support for Russia’s army industrial bottom”- echoing longtime US claims that Beijing has rejected, theContinue Reading
GENEVA: The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday ( Aug 27 ) “problematic” policies persist in China, two years on from its bombshell report citing possible” crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang. China has been accused of incarcerating more than 1 million Tamils and other minority Muslims in theContinue Reading
A US man who fled to North Korea next year will enter a plea deal with his lawyer in a court martial. While on a sightseeing tour of the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ), which divides the Korean Peninsula, Private Second Class Travis King crossed the border from South Korea toContinue Reading