WASHINGTON/BEIJING — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta this weekend, Beijing and Washington said on Sunday, as the world’s two largest economies seek to stabilize troubled relations. Both sides held “candid, substantive and constructive” talks during multiple meetings held Sept. 16-17, according to separate statements from the White House and the […]
New Jamaica’s rising star 100-meter sprinter Kishane Thompson continues to create waves and talking points from his performance on the track. In his recent outing at the Wanda Diamond League in Xiamen, China on Saturday, he made a sensational run to clock a new lifetime best 9.85s for second in the men’s 100m, behind American Christian Coleman, who equaled the […]
Hansle Parchment was in a no-nonsense mood when he took to the track on Saturday at the Xiamen Diamond League. He chalked up his season’s best to capture the men’s 110m hurdles event in 12.96s. The 33-year-old Olympic Champion showed character and excellent technique to blaze past his competitors, including reigning three-time World Champion Grant Holloway, in a season’s best […]
There is no stopping of Jamaica’s two-time World 200 meters Champion Shericka Jackson, on the track. She continued her winning ways at the Wanda Diamond League, held recently in China. Although she did not produce a record time, she did well enough to hold off her competitors in a time of 21.82s in a slight 0.8 meters per second headwind. […]
The United States will continue to sell semi-conductor computer chips to China but not its most powerful ones “that China wants for its military,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Sunday. The U.S. is “never going to sell our most powerful [artificial intelligence] chips” to China, Raimondo told CNN’s “State of the Union” show. Raimondo, who met in Beijing recently with […]
BEIJING — China’s central bank on Monday cut a key interest rate in an attempt to counter the post-COVID growth slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. The one-year loan prime rate, which serves as a benchmark for corporate loans, was reduced from 3.55% to 3.45%, the People’s Bank of China said in a statement, while the five-year LPR, which is used […]
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, is a country in East Asia. It is located at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People’s Republic of China to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. China considers Taiwan as part of its territory that was separated […]
JOHANNESBURG — China’s “friendship without limits” with Russia may be tested in Africa, where Beijing’s long-established economic interests are at risk of clashing with the growing footprint of Moscow’s paramilitary Wagner Group. The most recent point of potential friction is Niger, where leaders of a July 26 military coup are reported by The Associated Press to have reached out to Wagner for help […]
BEIJING — A Chinese naval flotilla set off on Sunday to join Russian naval and air forces in the Sea of Japan in an exercise aimed at “safeguarding the security of strategic waterways,” according to China’s defense ministry. Codenamed “Northern/Interaction-2023,” the drill marks enhanced military cooperation between China and Russia since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and is taking place as Beijing […]
U.S. lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would require the secretary of defense to develop a strategy for building “Rings of Fire” in the Indo-Pacific region to shrink the missile gap with China in concert with allies. Republican Representatives Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin and Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa introduced the Rings of Fire Act of 2023 on Friday. […]
