Tag Archives: United States

• US-China tensions threaten global climate change efforts 4 March 2021 | Christina Larson and Ellen Knickmeyer This post has no comments yet

  The world’s hopes for curbing climate change hinge on action by two giant nations whose relations are deteriorating: China and the United States. The two countries both say they are intent on retooling their economies to burn less coal, oil ...

• US House clears Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid plan, heads to Senate 27 February 2021 | Michael Mathes This post has no comments yet

  The US House passed an enormous, $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Saturday, hailed by Democrats as a critical step in funneling new funding toward vaccinations, overburdened local governments, and millions of families. ...

• Biden CIA nominee Burns to focus on ‘authoritarian adversary’ China 25 February 2021 | Patricia Zengerle and Mark Hosenball This post has one comment

  President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the CIA, William Burns, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he saw competition with China - and countering its “adversarial, predatory” leadership - as the key to US national security. ...

• China says Japan-US security treaty a product of Cold War 24 February 2021 This post has no comments yet

  China on Wednesday called the Japan-US mutual security pact a product of the Cold War following US criticism of the presence of Chinese coast guard vessels in Japanese-claimed territorial waters over the weekend. ...

• China calls for a reset, but US says Beijing trying to ‘avert blame’ 23 February 2021 | Reuters Staff This post has 3 comments

  Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Monday the United States and China could work together on various issues if they repaired their damaged bilateral relations, but Washington accused Beijing of trying to avert blame for its actions. ...

• Biden declares ‘America is back’ in welcome words to allies 20 February 2021 | Aamer Madhani This post has no comments yet

  President Joe Biden in his first address before a global audience declared that “America is back, the transatlantic alliance is back,” after four years of a Trump administration that flaunted a foreign policy through an “America First" lens ...

• US needs to brace itself for more deadly storms, experts say 18 February 2021 | Matthew Daly and Ellen Knickmeyer This post has no comments yet

  Deadly weather will be hitting the US more often, and America needs to get better at dealing with it, experts said as Texas and other states battled winter storms that blew past the worst-case planning of utilities. ...

• Biden says China to face repercussions on human rights 17 February 2021 | Jeff Mason This post has no comments yet

  China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, responding to queries at a televised event on the Asian nation’s handling of Muslim minorities in its far western region of Xinjiang. ...

• US ship sails in South China Sea by China-claimed islands | Reuters Staff This post has no comments yet

  A US Navy warship sailed by islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Wednesday in a freedom of navigation operation, marking the latest move by Washington to challenge Beijing’s territorial claims in the contested waters. ...

• Biden administration plans to continue to seek extradition of WikiLeaks’ Assange 10 February 2021 | Mark Hosenball This post has no comments yet

  President Joe Biden’s administration plans to continue to seek to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States to face hacking conspiracy charges, the US Justice Department said. ...