PANMUNJOM, South Korea — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior and blocking U.N. scrutiny of the isolated country’s efforts to evade sanctions over its weapons programs. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the remarks during a visit to the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war. Her trip to South Korea came after Russia...
U.S. officials said Chinese materials are filing critical gaps in Russia's defense production cycle and helping Moscow undertake the expansion of its defence industrial base.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The best-selling new book by Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, realistically describes what a nuclear war between America and Russia would be like, though her “scenario” for it is wildly unrealistic. It starts with a North Korean missile that does exist, dropping onto the Pentagon a North Korean 1-megaton […]
BEIJING >> China on Thursday announced rare sanctions against two U.S. defense companies over what it called their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary.
The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.
Johannesburg — After investing more than $1 billion in Niger over a decade, the U.S. military has agreed to withdraw its more than 1,000 forces from the West African nation over the next few months. It was not a move the U.S. had hoped to make, and officials tell CBS News it will be a severe blow to U.S. counterterrorism efforts in a region known to represent a number of major and growing threats.Niger is a landlocked country surrounded by some unstable neighbors where local militias have joined...
Semiconductors have emerged as a key battleground between the U.S. and Russia and the growing Cold War between the U.S. and ChinaThe chips are imperative for almost every type of technology out there today. But while American tech companies design the world's most advanced chips, none are actually made in the U.S. Almost all of them come from Taiwan. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, 52, said the market failed to get it right in the case of semiconductors. Almost all of America's advanced chips...
China on Thursday announced sanctions against two U.S. defense companies over what it says is their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko warned the Japanese ambassador on Friday that "dangerous trends" in Tokyo's military cooperation with the United States were posing a threat to stability and security in northeast Asia. Moscow weighed in after U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday
The U.S. Cyber Command’s top official insisted Wednesday efforts to deter China and Russia’s cyberattacks are working despite mounting hacks from those adversaries that have hammered American businesses and targeted critical infrastructure.
China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine, according to a U.S. assessment.
Six-time champion Marcel Hug of Switzerland led the wheelchair field on its way to begin the 128th edition of the Boston Marathon on Monday as this otherwise sleepy New England town celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line.