Tag: US

Home News

US sails warships through Taiwan Strait in 1st since Pelosi visit

August 28, 2022

Taipei: The US Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait Sunday, in the first such transit publicised since US ...

National

India in advanced stage of talks with US for procurement of MQ-9B drones

August 21, 2022

New Delhi: India is in an advanced stage of negotiations with the US to procure 30 MQ-9B Predator armed drones ...

International

US buys 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine to supply hungry regions

August 20, 2022

Bulla Hagar: The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the ...

China renews war threats as Taiwan launches its military exercises Beijing: China Thursday renewed its threat to attack Taiwan following almost a week of war games near the island. Taiwan has called Beijing's claims to the self-governing democracy “wishful thinking" and launched its own military exercises. Taiwan's “collusion with external forces to seek independence and provocation will only accelerate their own demise and push Taiwan into the abyss of disaster,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing. “Their pursuit of Taiwan independence will never succeed, and any attempt to sell the national interest will be met with a complete failure," Wang told reporters. China's attempt to intimidate the Taiwanese public and advertise its strategy for blockading and potentially invading the island was nominally prompted by a visit to Taipei last week by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The US, Japan and allies have denounced the exercises, with the Group of Seven industrialised nations issuing a statement at a recent meeting expressing its concern. On Wednesday, Britain's government summoned Chinese Ambassador Zheng Zeguang to the Foreign Office to demand an explanation of "Beijing's aggressive and wide-ranging escalation against Taiwan”. Taiwan says Beijing used Pelosi's visit as a pretext to raise the stakes in its feud with Taipei, firing missiles into the Taiwan Strait and over the island into the Pacific Ocean. China also sent planes and ships across the midline in the strait that has long been a buffer between the sides, which separated amid civil war in 1949. In a lengthy policy statement on Taiwan issued Wednesday, China distorted the historical record, including the United Nations' 1972 resolution that transferred the China seat on the Security Council from Beijing to Taipei, Taiwan's Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council said. The Chinese statement also discarded a pledge not to send troops or government officials to Taiwan that was contained in previous statements. The UN resolution makes no mention of Taiwan's status, although China regards it as a foundational document proclaiming the Communist Party's right to control over the island. The Taiwanese council's statement said China was orchestrating its moves against Taiwan ahead of the ruling Communist Party's 20th National Congress to be held later this year. President and party leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term at the conclave, after leading a relentless crackdown on political figures accused of corruption, human rights activists and civil society groups. Xi's suppression of free speech and political opposition in Hong Kong was also seen as a factor behind Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen winning a second term in 2020. China says it plans to annex Taiwan under the now widely discredited “one country, two systems" format applied in Hong Kong. The concept has been thoroughly rejected in Taiwanese public opinion polls in which respondents have overwhelmingly favoured the status-quo of de-facto independence. The Chinese statement is “full of wishful thinking, and ignores the facts," the Mainland Affairs Council said in its press release. The “crude and clumsy political operations by the Beijing authorities further highlight its arrogant thinking pattern of attempting to use force to invade and destroy the Taiwan Strait and regional peace," the release said. “The authorities in Beijing deceive themselves. We warn the Beijing authorities to immediately stop threatening Taiwan with force and spreading false information," it said. Taiwan placed its military under high alert during the Chinese drills but took no direct countermeasures. It held artillery drills off its southwestern coast facing China that ran through Thursday, illustrating the challenges the People's Liberation Army would face were it to launch an invasion across the strait. AP China, Taiwan

Business

US to hold trade talks with Taiwan, island drills military

August 18, 2022

Hualien (Taiwan): The US Government Thursday announced trade talks with Taiwan in a sign of support for the island democracy ...

Business

India has never been defensive about its stand on buying Russian oil: EAM Jaishankar

August 17, 2022

Bangkok: The US and other nations in the world may not appreciate India buying Russian oil, but they have accepted ...

International

India ‘concerned’ over developments in and around Taiwan

August 12, 2022

New Delhi: India said Friday it was concerned over the developments around Taiwan and called for avoiding ‘unilateral actions’ to ...

Sports

India ‘B’ men, ‘A’ women squads win bronze at Chess Olympiad

August 9, 2022

Mamallapuram (Tamil Nadu): The India ‘B’ team settled for a bronze medal in the Open section while the India ...

China's military displays force toward Taiwan after Tsai trip

Home News

US, Australia, Japan urge China to immediately cease military exercises around Taiwan

August 7, 2022

Washington: The United States, Australia and Japan have urged China to immediately cease its military exercises launched following US House ...

International

China threatens action against Taiwan after Nancy Pelosi’s visit

August 2, 2022

Beijing: China warned Tuesday that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan disregarding its stern warnings will have a ...

International

9/11 groups, families cheer al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death

August 2, 2022

Washington: The family members of a 9/11 survivors group have expressed gratitude to US President Joe Biden for eliminating al-Qaeda ...

Page 230 of 334 Prev 1 … 229 230 231 … 334 Next

Editorial

A Systems Fix

August 1, 2026

Dilip Cherian Governments, especially those with strong political instincts, usually respond to crises with tougher laws, tighter enforcement and louder...

July 29, 2026

A debate is spreading across India. The Cockroach students movement recently succeeded within a few days at forcing change that...

July 28, 2026

Better late than never. Two days after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Supreme Court has stated...

July 27, 2026

A quote from Milan Kundera goes thus: The final stage of a cultural movement is satire. When the people laugh...

Tag: US

Archives

Editorial