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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 off all official engagements as part of its transition efforts to help US President-elect Joe Biden. Craft was due to begin the three-day trip on January 13 and was scheduled to meet the island’s president Tsai Ing-wen. Announced as part of a wider criticism on the arrest of 53 democracy activists in Hong Kong, the trip had come under scr...

Trump UN Envoy Cancels Visit To Free China Bows To Impending Transition to Biden Administration https://www.nysun.com/foreign/trump-envoy-set-to-make-splash-in-taiwan/91390/ The State Department announced today the cancelation of international travel to all diplomats, citing the ongoing transition to the incoming Biden administration. Too bad, at least for friends of Free China. Hours earlier America’s ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, was scheduled to set off for a trip to Taiwan...

The U.S. ambassador to the UN will visit Taiwan next week for meetings with senior Taiwanese government leaders.

News From Antiwar.com Original and up-to-date news Taiwan Welcomes Planned Visit From US Ambassador to UN Kelly Craft to visit Taiwan from January 13th to the 15th Taiwan welcomed the announcement of a visit to the island by US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft. The visit will take place from January 13th to the 15th and will be one of the Trump administration’s last swipes at Beijing. A spokesperson for Taiwan’s Presidential Office said on Friday that the trip is a “symbol of the solid f...

When the United States finalized a set of seven arms sales packages to Taiwan in August, including 66 upgraded F-16 fighter planes and longer-range air-to-ground missiles that could hit sensitive targets on mainland China, it shifted U.S. policy sharply toward a much more aggressive stance on the geo-strategic island at the heart of military tensions between the United States and China. Branded “Fortress Taiwan” by the Pentagon, the ambitious arms deal was engineered by Randall Schriver, ...

© Getty Images The contrast between America’s rule of law and China’s “rule by law” is presently on vivid display.  As the world’s oldest democracy, the United States is the foremost exponent of the rule of law, which it routinely posits against authoritarian systems and their arbitrary one-man or one-party diktats. Communist China, which calls itself a “People’s Republic” and uses the democratic title “president” for its unelected leader, is happy to cloak its governance ...

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Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 07.53 EST Guy Reid-Bailey was a hero of a civil rights movement in the UK that is only now being given its due. A central figure in the struggle to end the unofficial segregation – the notorious “colour bar” – rampant in the UK in the 1960s, he took part in the Bristol bus boycott, which is credited with encouraging politicians to bring in the first Race Relations Act in 1965. He went on to found the first black housing association in Bristol and set up ...