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By Bill O’Boyle boboyle@timesleader.com This is a screenshot of Thursday’s ZOOM conference of the Bi-County Airport Board, during which Floyd P. Bowen, a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper, was unanimously appointed as the new Public Safety Director at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. Screenshot �� Listen to this PITTSTON TWP. — Floyd P. Bowen, a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper, was unanimously appointed as the new Public Safety Director at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton...

On China, is Biden channeling Trump or Trumps administration? Theyre not the same Joseph Bosco, opinion contributor © Getty Images On China, is Biden channeling Trump or Trumps administration? Theyre not the same President Biden has provided insight into his two-hour telephone conversation last week with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. At a CNN town hall, Anderson Cooper asked Biden about the Uighurs and Chinas human rights record. "We must speak up for human rights. Its who we ar...

While Taiwan behaves responsibly and peaceably, China is growing ever more menacing and belligerent.

The way to ensure that America won’t have to fight to defend the democratic island against mainland China? Leave no doubt that it is prepared to do so.

What do we do when Beijing turns up heat on Taiwan? China will use grey area tactics of bullying rather than bullets against its rival in Taipei. Those may be difficult to counter. Share We should be preparing for a catastrophic war across the Taiwan Strait, if recent public commentary is any indication. However, the common assumption that informs these analyses – that Beijing would attack Taiwan – is outdated. A military invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) cannot b...

Taiwan in Geopolitical Crossfire as Biden Formulates China Policy Posted by Josh Rudolph | Feb 5, 2021 Last month at Foreign Policy, Jack Detsch and Christina Lu noted Taiwanese officials and lawmakers have been playing out the same worst-case scenario in their head for years now: China attacks the island across the Taiwan Strait, and officials in Taipei call for backup from the United States and other allies. With Joe Biden now sitting in the Oval Office, Taiwan wants to know: How would the U...

WHEN the Sunday Times tells us that the UK is at risk of breaking up, we know the Tory government and the ruling class are worried.  They should be. Change is coming and it becomes the responsibility of the left to take the lead in the debate on reform, to put forward a progressive socialist alternative to our current archaic and dysfunctional system. During the current public health emergency, it is understandable that constitutional reform is not an issue on many people’s minds.  However,...

The CCP organ published the editorial after the State Department voiced concern about the most recent encroachment of People’s Liberation Army Air Force planes on areas close to Taiwan’s airspace.

This book should be Remoan’s final whimper – and good riddance 1/5 Philip Stephens self-flagellatory (and inaccurate) history of Britain’s travails since 1945 is just one long pro-EU whine A protesting shellfish truck driver, Jan 18, 2021 Credit: Alastair Grant Since the Victim’s Charter of 1996, those harmed by crime have been entitled to make a statement to the court about the effect on them of the criminal’s offence. This book resembles such a statement. The Financial Times journal...

US calls off UN envoy’s Taiwan visit to focus on Biden transition Erin Hale © US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft was due to travel to Taiwan from 13-15 January [File... US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft was due to travel to Taiwan from 13-15 January [File: Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters] A trip by Kelly Craft, the US Ambassador to the United Nations to Taiwan this week was cancelled suddenly on Wednesday after the Trump Administration called of...