By Matthew Walsh Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that “external interference” would not stop Beijing from unifying with Taiwan, as he met the self-ruled island’s former leader in a rare display of cross-strait dialogue. Taiwan’s ex-president Ma Ying-jeou is in China as part of what he has called a “journey of peace” to calm […]
Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou holds his second meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, following a landmark summit in Singapore in 2015 when Ma was still Taiwan's leader
By W.G. Dunlop US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun via video teleconference Tuesday, in the first substantive talks between the superpowers’ defense chiefs in nearly 18 months. The United States has been working to strengthen defense cooperation with its allies in the Asia-Pacific region to counter China’s growing influence […]
Chinese leader using meeting with Ma Ying-jeou to promote peaceful ‘reunion’ as only alternative to annexation, say analystsXi Jinping has met the former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou, in what analysts said was an attempt to promote peaceful unification as the only alternative to military annexation of Taiwan.Ma, who was leading a student delegation to China, met Xi in Beijing at the Great Hall of the People, a venue typically reserved for foreign leaders meeting with senior Chinese officials....
GUANGZHOU, China, April 17 (Reuters) – China and Europe face a “slow motion train accident” as a rising tide of protectionism threatens to become a full trade war, the head of a European business lobby group
Former President Donald Trump was ridiculed Friday after his former adviser admitted he "could not get his head around" a basic fact. Former adviser Fiona Hill reports in a new book reviewed by the Guardian that Trump, as president, had a hard time understanding Ukraine was a country. “Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill reportedly said. “He really could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an...
The dismissals reduced to five the number of jurors who have been seated for the first-ever criminal trial of a former president.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing Wednesday in a bid to promote unification between the sides that separated amid civil war in 1949.
Prosecution and defense set out their cases on Monday in a tense courtroom. The jury sat rapt with attention as prosecutors set out their 'catch and kill' theory. Meanwhile, Trump offered little reaction as if to say the case was nothing special
By Laurie Chen QINGDAO, China, April 21 (Reuters) – The Chinese Navy on Sunday kicked off a biennial meeting of top foreign naval officials in the port city of Qingdao, in a
There is no official “promise” between the Philippines and China. Tensions have grown due to “gray-zone” activities by China in the Philippines' EEZ. The sovereignty claims made by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson openly ignore the PCA at The Hague's 2016 ruling on the South China Sea.
Trump visited a Harlem bodega where a worker killed an ex-con in self-defense. The former president made the stop after the second day of his criminal trial. Trump received a raucous reception as he arrived at the bodega on Tuesday