Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun warned on Sunday that China’s military is prepared to “forcefully” prevent Taiwan’s independence but also called for increased exchanges with the United States. Speaking at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Dong’s comments came after his first substantial talks with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin […]
Military and Defense
Military and Defense
Wed, May 22, 2024 at 5:56 AM EDT· China announced that it has taken countermeasures against 12 U.S. companies involved in the military-industrial complex and their senior executives. This is in response to the U.S. arming of Taiwan and sanctions imposed on Chinese companies. The countermeasures include freezing the companies’ […]
Uyghur Times WASHINGTON, D.C. In a joint effort, Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Representative Young Kim (R-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific, have issued a compelling letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro. […]
Chinese Foreign Ministry: shooting down ballon is serious violation of international practice and reserves the right to make further responses if necessary.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday warned China on Twitter that China should know: any attack on Taiwan would make China a pariah state.”
EU Diplomatic Representative, Josep Borrell Fontelles, briefed the European Parliament on Tuesday about the EU-China summit held on April 1. He pointed out that the video conference between EU leaders and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “deaf dialogue” and said there are doubts about China’s willingness to cooperate in ending the war in Ukraine, the Chinese Edition of Radio France Internationale (RFI) reports.
Today, the whole world is in mourning, sympathizing with the Ukrainian people, who are dealing with a war started by an enemy many times more powerful than theirs — and praying to God that a similar fate should not befall them.
Every year the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) issues the “Global Peace Index” (GPI), the purpose of which is to score 163 nations according to their levels of peacefulness. The overall GPI score for 2021 indicates that the global situation – as a result of the coronavirus pandemic among others – has once again deteriorated.
Yesterday, the Russian airstrikes killed five people in the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. The infamous ravine saw 33,771 Jews killed by the Nazis in 24 hours during WW2.