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Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images The Chinese flag flies over a mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang in 2019. CNN — The United States has condemned China’s reported sentencing of prominent Uyghur academic Rahile Dawut to life in prison, calling for the immediate release of the scholar known for documenting folklore . . .
US officials believe defence minister Li Shangfu is under investigation and has been relieved of his duties just six months after his appointment, the Financial Times reported last week. In July, foreign minister Qin Gang — long seen as a close ally of Xi’s — was removed from office without explanation. Later that month China […]
China appears to have suspended its global surveillance balloon program after a balloon was spotted drifting over the United States in February. But now an anonymous reader shares this report from CBS News: Seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells “CBS News Sunday Morning” the balloon wasn’t spying. […]
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Idea Generation: Mike Amiri Mike Amiri was raised in Los Angeles’s most famous neighborhood, Hollywood, during the excess of the ’80s hair metal scene. The son of Iranian immigrants, he was transfixed by the music, culture and fashion coming out of clubs like the Roxy. So when he launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2013–with […]
Hanoi, Vietnam CNN — President Joe Biden will arrive at Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s doorstep on Sunday with a deal in hand to draw yet another one of China’s neighbors closer to the United States. In just the last five months, Biden has hosted the Philippines’ president at the White House for . . .
Apple shares down after Beijing restricts iPhone use iPhone maker set for biggest two-day drop since Nov Tensions between US and China have risen in recent months US House panel chair blasts China’s move
Comment on this storyComment Judith Marks, the chief executive of the elevator maker Otis Worldwide, returned in April from a 10-day trip to China saying “all signals look positive” for the country’s recovery from its draconian covid lockdown.
Unveiling the initiative on Monday, Kathleen Hicks, the deputy defence secretary, said the systems would be fielded in the next two years and were aimed at deterring aggression from Beijing. They would also be “attritable” – referring to attrition warfare that aims to wear down the enemy while maintaining combat power, even when sustaining losses. […]
September 3, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. EDT The port in the city of Victoria, on the island of Mahe, Seychelles. (Eduardo Soteras for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment MAHE ISLAND, Seychelles — At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force tracking station that monitored Soviet satellites from this island’s soaring […]