The United States shared information with 40 nations about the Chinese spy balloon shot down. The balloon drifted across Canada and the continental U.S. before it was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet. In an unusual move, America’s top diplomat and the head of the world biggest military alliance appeared together at a press […]
LONDON—Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, will not return to Britain for sentencing this week after admitting causing the death of a teenager by driving carelessly in England three years ago, a British court has said. Harry Dunn, 19, died in August 2019 after his motorcycle was hit by a car driven on […]
Amid the recent visit by U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, EU leaders have been reluctant to weigh in on the dispute. For the EU, Taiwan is an important partner with shared values, while it does not abandon the one-China policy. Taiwan’s representative to France calls on the leading nations and the world’s people to support the self-ruled island.
U.S. diplomatic staff inside China are making a request to the State Department to let them, and their families, leave the country. CNN cited sources familiar with the matter, saying the request for an “authorized departure” was made amid growing concerns about China’s strict pandemic containment measures.
The United States evacuated diplomats’ families from Ukraine out of an “abundance of caution,” Kristina Kvien, the U.S. acting ambassador to Ukraine, said on Tuesday. “The decision was made because right now [President] Vladimir Putin and Russia have built up such military might on the border that they could take an action any day now,” […]
The U.S. Senate voted 75–18 on Dec. 16 to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to China as the two rivals ramp up global competition, after reaching the key 50-vote threshold. Nicholas Burns, 65, will be the first career diplomat in recent years to fill the position, which has been vacant for over […]
Losing Taiwan to China would be a disaster for the United States, and Washington needs to do more for the self-ruled island’s defense, a former U.S. diplomat said. “If Taiwan falls into Chinese hands, Japan is totally isolated. It’s cut off. The [first] island chain is broken,” William Stanton recently told NTD, The Epoch Times’ […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The United States is negotiating with Kuwait and other countries whether they can host Afghans who supported the American war effort and could face Taliban revenge attacks if they stay in Afghanistan, America’s top diplomat said Thursday. During a visit to tiny, oil-rich Kuwait, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not […]
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the path is now clear for a virtual trial of Anne Sacoolas, the US woman accused of killing 19-year-old Harry Dunn in 2019
