Tag: China-US News

French Operator of Chinese Nuclear Plant Flags ‘Performance Issues’ After Reports of ‘Imminent Radiological Threat’

A French nuclear firm said it is working to resolve a “performance issue” at a plant it part-owns in China’s Guangdong province, following reports that U.S. authorities were assessing a report of a possible leak at the facility amid warnings of an “imminent radiological threat,” according to reports. Framatome, a division of French power group…


Taiwan Thanks G-7 Leaders for Support Despite China’s Aggression

TAIPEI, Taiwan—The Taiwanese government on Monday thanked Group of Seven (G-7) leaders for calling for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. On Sunday, G-7 leaders issued a statement that was highly critical of the Chinese regime, including its human rights abuses in China’s far-western Xinjiang region and Hong Kong, and unfair trade practices. The leaders…


Blinken Says Beijing Must Cooperate in Future Investigations Into CCP Virus Origins

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Beijing must work with further investigations into the origins of the CCP virus. He added that China’s failure to cooperate was one reason that the World Health Organization’s initial report did not go well. “China has to cooperate with that,” Bliken told CBS’s “Face the Nation”…


G-7 Rebukes Chinese Regime Over Human Rights, Demands COVID-19 Origins Investigation

Group of Seven (G-7) leaders on June 13 called out the Chinese regime over its rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, vowed to counter Beijing’s unfair trade practices, and demanded a thorough investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. After discussing how to come up with a unified position on China, leaders…


US Commission Says Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Should Never Have Been Imprisoned

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, on June 12 spoke out against the imprisonment of Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow. Chow, 24, was released from prison on Saturday morning after serving more than six months for taking part in an unauthorized protest near the police headquarters in Hong Kong…


US Border Officers Seize Fake Rolex Watches From Hong Kong

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville recently seized 20 fraudulent Rolex watches in a shipment from Hong Kong, the agency announced on Thursday. Had the watches been authentic, they would have a market value of over $491,000, according to the CBP. The shipment, destined to a residence in Miami, was seized at…


U.S. Border Officers Seize Fake Rolex Watches From Hong Kong

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville recently seized 20 fraudulent Rolex watches in a shipment from Hong Kong, the agency announced on Thursday. Had the watches been authentic, they would have a market value of over $491,000, according to the CBP. The shipment, destined to a residence in Miami, was seized at…


US, UK Sign New Atlantic Charter Setting Focus on Red China

The United State’s president Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed a new Atlantic Charter on the eve of the G7 summit in the United Kingdom. The agreement and the related joint statement by the two heads of state set focus on communist China. On June 10, Biden and Johnson signed the agreement that…


Anything You Can Do: G7 Rivals China With Grand Infrastructure Plan

CARBIS BAY, England–The Group of Seven richest democracies on June 12 sought to counter China’s growing influence by offering developing nations an infrastructure plan that would rival Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative. The G7, whose leaders are meeting in southwestern England, has been searching for a coherent response to the growing…


China, US Diplomats Clash Over Human Rights, Pandemic Origin

BEIJING—Top U.S. and Chinese diplomats appear to have had another sharply worded exchange, with Beijing saying it told the U.S. to cease interfering in its internal affairs and accusing Washington of politicizing the search for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yang Jiechi, Senior Chinese foreign policy adviser and Antony Blinken, Secretary of State held…