Officials claim ballon entered US three times under TrumpSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailGood morning, US politics blog readers.Joe Biden is finalizing his state of the union address after a weekend spent working on the remarks at Camp...
The flap with the United States raises concerns about how China wields its power in a climate where one wrong move could set off an accidental conflict....
Washington and Beijing need to resume talks quickly before the hawks bring the world to warIt must be admitted that the flap over an enormous Chinese balloon that flew or blew, unannounced, over the US and Canada last week has a certain funny side. Pentagon generals...
What happened this week in politics? Biden and McCarthy met at the White House to talk debt ceiling and news of a Nikki Haley White House run leaked. ...
President Biden and his aides do not want the nearly 50 African leaders attending the event to perceive that official U.S. interests on the continent are mainly driven by a desire to counter China....
The Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s trip to Saudi Arabia has been scant on details and heavy on ceremony. But it showcases the growing ties between Beijing and a longtime American ally....
After the pain of an energy crisis brought on by the Ukraine war, Europe is keen to reduce its strategic vulnerabilities to China, not to speak of other authoritarian governments....
The demonstrations over Covid lockdowns present a challenge for President Biden, who has insisted he will call out abuses by authoritarian governments....
North Korea launches nearly 80 missiles in 2022 in growing hostility to U.S., South Korea military exercises — and to show its power to China, Russia. ...
US president says he told Xi Jinping that Beijing had an ‘obligation’ to tell Kim Jong-un to avoid a seventh testJoe Biden has said he told Xi Jinping that China has an obligation to try to talk North Korea out of conducting a seventh nuclear test, although the US...
The trip is aimed at keeping the lines of communication open and having frank exchanges about important issues at senior levels in order to avoid conflict....
Joe Biden has said he does not believe China has any ‘imminent’ plans to invade Taiwan but objected to its ‘coercive and increasingly aggressive actions’ toward the island in his first in-person meeting with Xi Jinping since they became...
Discussions about combating climate change between the world’s two largest economies — and two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases — had been frozen since August....
President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping sought to lower the temperature between the U.S. and China at a meeting in Bali ahead of the G20 Summit. ...
With China’s strict pandemic policies stalling the economy at home and globally, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said American mRNA vaccines are at the ready....
US president expected to urge Beijing to do more to curb North Korea and raise carbon reduction targetsJoe Biden, buoyed up by the military breakthrough in Ukraine and Democrat retention of the US Senate, said he would seek to establish red lines in the US’s...
US president expected to urge Beijing to do more to curb North Korea and raise carbon reduction targetsJoe Biden, buoyed up by the military breakthrough in Ukraine and Democrat retention of the US Senate, said he would seek to establish red lines in the US’s...
US president and new British PM reaffirm ‘special relationship’ after Sunak becomes Britain’s third leader in 2022The US president, Joe Biden, and Britain’s new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, agreed during talks on Tuesday to work together to support Ukraine and stand...
The contents of the classified documents recovered from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate included information about Iran’s missile program and intelligence work aimed at China....
The White House issued sweeping restrictions on selling semiconductors and chip-making equipment to China, an attempt to curb the country’s access to critical technologies....
The new rules could be the most sweeping action taken yet by the Biden administration to thwart China’s access to American technology that powers data centers and supercomputers....
