Security
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a press conference call to push for the passage of his Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which the U.S. Senate has begun voting on. Brown was joined on the call by Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn. Brown’s FEND Off Fentanyl Act […]
The United States has vetoed a widely supported resolution at the UN Security Council (UNSC) that would have paved the way for the state of Palestine to gain full membership at the United Nations. Twelve countries voted in favour of the resolution, which was brought for a vote during an hours-long Security Council session in […]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on July 5, 2023. Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/File Israel, aided by its allies, dodged a bullet Sunday. To be more precise, 60 tons of explosives aboard more than 350 Iranian projectiles, some bigger than a family car, failed to dodge Israel’s defenses. Yet Israel, in defiance of US […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden cut short a weekend stay at his Delaware beach house to meet with his national security team at the White House Saturday and monitor the situation in the Middle East as Iran launched an attack against Israel. Tensions are at their highest since the
The U.S. and Japan announced a historic upgrade to their security alliance Wednesday, as President Joe Biden hosts Japanese Prime Minister
HONG KONG — The United States and Japan are set to announce a historic upgrade to their security alliance on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden hosts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for . . .
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was just 6 years old in 1963 when he and his family moved from Tokyo to New York, an entire hemisphere and endless cultural differences away. The boy from ethnically homogenous Japan was struck by the diversity and generosity of his classmates while attending public school in . […]
Bulgaria guarantees the security of NATO’s eastern flank and the strategically important Black Sea region, US Ambassador to Bulgaria Kenneth Merten said in his speech on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, 20 years of Bulgaria’s NATO membership and 33 years of the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria. […]
HONG KONG (AP) — The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said on Friday that its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about the city’s media freedoms. Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement that it will no longer have […]
Commentary: US security view of China is not black and white
Black Hot Fire Network
April 23, 2024
SPACE FOR COOPERATION AND MANOEUVRES Despite such nuances about securitisation, the US and China still have many disagreements, such as over how peace, stability and (which) rules, are maintained. Naturally, this has led to growing mistrust. We tend to think of trust as “trustworthiness”, or whether others share our fundamental moral values and therefore should […]