Tag Archives: China

• China warns US against ‘playing with fire’ over Taiwan visit 12 August 2020 | Wang Teng-yi This post has one comment

  China warned Washington not to "play with fire" on Wednesday as a US delegation wrapped up a historic trip to the self-ruled island of Taiwan. Beijing has been infuriated by the highest-profile visit in decades to Taiwan. ...

• Trump says ‘great’ bond with China’s Xi changed after COVID-19 11 August 2020 This post has no comments yet

  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping has frayed in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic and that he has not spoken to his Chinese counterpart in a long time. ...

• Hong Kong police raid pro-democracy newspaper, arrests owner 10 August 2020 | Jerome Taylor and Su Xinqi This post has one comment

  Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested Monday and led in handcuffs through his newspaper office as police raided the building, part of a sweeping crackdown on dissent since China imposed a security law on the city. ...

• Russia acting against Biden; China opposes Trump: US intel 9 August 2020 | Eric Tucker and Deb Riechmann This post has 3 comments

  US intelligence officials believe that Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the November election and that individuals linked to the Kremlin are boosting Trump's reelection. ...

• US slaps sanctions on Hong Kong leader in new offensive on China 7 August 2020 | Shaun Tandon and Rob Lever, with AFP in Beijing This post has 4 comments

  The United States slapped sanctions Friday on Hong Kong's leader after effectively forcing Chinese internet giants TikTok and WeChat to end all US operations in a twin diplomatic-commercial offensive set to grow ahead of US elections. ...

• Pakistan demands Kashmir action while ignoring China’s Uyghurs | Asif Hassan This post has no comments yet

  Even as Pakistan this week drew international attention to the plight of Muslims in Indian Kashmir, Islamabad stayed conspicuously silent about another embattled Muslim community -- China's Uyghur population. ...

• Trump issues bans on China’s TikTok, WeChat, stoking tension with Beijing 6 August 2020 | David Shepardson and Alexandra Alper This post has no comments yet

  US President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on US transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent, operator of messenger app WeChat, in a major escalation of tensions with Beijing. ...

• Standoff with China will be long, India warns in pulled statement This post has no comments yet

  India’s defence ministry has warned, in a statement since removed from its website, that a military standoff with China that began with border fighting in June is likely to be a long one, despite multiple rounds of talks. ...

• Border dispute should not dominate China, India ties – Chinese envoy to US 4 August 2020 This post has one comment

  A border dispute between India and China - which turned deadly in June when troops of the two sides clashed - should not dominate relations between the nuclear-armed Asian powers, the Chinese ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday. ...

• Expansionist greed of Chinese government — A pain in the neck for the world | NS Venkataraman This post has one comment

  It is sad that the present Chinese government has become a pain in the neck of the world, and that the Chinese government does not seem to mind this. ...