A Politico report released Wednesday revealed officials from the Chinese Embassy have met with congressional staffers to lobby against the recent bill that would force the Beijing-based ByteDance to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company.
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Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ordered authorities to raid the Mexican diplomatic outpost to arrest the country's former Vice President Jorge Glas, a convicted criminal and fugitive who was holed up at the embassy since December.
Venezuela has ordered its embassy in Ecuador closed in the wake of a raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito. “I ordered to close our Embassy in Ecuador, as well as the Consulates in Quito and Guayaquil and for diplomatic personnel to return to Venezuela immediately,” Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Tuesday in a post
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called for legislation to force TikTok's parent company, China's ByteDance, to divest the short video app used by 170 million Americans. "Requiring the divestment of Beijing-influenced entities from TikTok would land squarely within established constitutional precedent," McConnell said, adding "it wouldbegin to turn back the tide of an enormous threat to America's children." He called TikTok "America's greatest strategic rival is threatening...
Amid inflation, the migrant crisis and Ukraine and Israel’s fights for survival, it’s all too easy to overlook what Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week rightly called “the greatest strategic challenge” to world peace: China. Just two days earlier, FBI Director Christopher Wray called Beijing “the defining threat of our generation.” The Chinese Communist
These Are Asia's Richest Billionaires As of the start of April, Mukesh Ambani (66) is the richest man in Asia, with a net worth of $116.1 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, Ambani is the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, a conglomerate that focuses not only on petrochemicals, but also textiles and telecommunications. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, Ambani ranks 11th on Forbes’ worldwide list, which is headed by Bernard Arnault & family (LVMH) with...