
Beijing’s Boldness: Expat Hong Kong Dissidents Faced With Bounty
Police official Steve Li admitted that while the chances of prosecution were slim as long as the defendants remained abroad, Hong Kong authorities “won’t stop wanting them.”
Police official Steve Li admitted that while the chances of prosecution were slim as long as the defendants remained abroad, Hong Kong authorities “won’t stop wanting them.”
The sanctions were lighter than expected, largely on account of Chinese diplomatic efforts to assure the EU that it would prevent Western hardware from leaking to Russia.
Biden’s casting of the Chinese leader in the role runs the risk of hobbling any progress Secretary of State Antony Blinken might have made in restoring trust between the two superpowers.
Shocking few, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is given a “sweetheart deal” by the U.S. Department of Justice on tax and gun charges, which is believed to end a years-long investigation into the younger Biden’s business dealings.
While Germany’s first-ever national security strategy remains cautious on the China question, it is considerably less so on the Russian one, naming Moscow the “most significant threat to peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic area.”
It is evident that the prospect of closer ties with France is very much on China’s radar—and understandably so, France’s trust would be an immeasurable boon to the extension of China’s influence through Europe and the curtailing of the U.S.’s influence.
Little did we know that, by 2020, the pandemic was almost two decades in the making. The Sunday Times’ investigative report tells an incredible tale of American money, Chinese secrecy, and unrestrained human hubris.
The UK will hold a summit later this year on the need to keep artificial intelligence in check, which the prime minister hopes Joe Biden might attend.
The U.S. is named for having “made provocations first,” to which the Chinese “only responded by handling the incident in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.”
Hungary and Greece are believed to be the primary stumbling blocks to EU sanctions against Chinese companies accused of reselling Western military hardware to Russia.