The US Senate has passed a rare bipartisan legislative package aimed at improving the country s economic competition with China by investing billions of dollars in science and technology and holding Beijing accountable for its predatory tactics. The important anti-China bill was passed by the Senate with 68-32 votes on Tuesday. It is considered a major political victory by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who had made it a top priority. The US Innovation and Competition Act invests more than USD 100 billion of taxpayer funds to solidify the United States leadership in scientific and technological innovation critical to national security and economic competitiveness.
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PTI / Jun 7, 2021, 08:31 IST
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WASHINGTON: Several lawmakers and governors have urged the Biden administration to ensure India receives Covid vaccines and medical aid, saying the crisis in the country is devastating and that the US has a responsibility to help its close allies fight the pandemic.
India on Sunday reported 1,14,460 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 60 days, while the daily positivity rate stood at 5.62 per cent. The total tally of coronavirus cases in the country is 2,88,09,339.
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Chinese officials want to seize the mantle of the world’s “only” superpower from the United States, a four-star U.S. Air Force general is warning Washington s Indo-Pacific allies.
“They don’t believe there can be multiple superpowers, they believe that there can only be one, and they want to return back to the glory days of [imperial] China where everybody else was a vassal state and everybody [kowtowed] to the emperor,” U.S. Pacific Air Forces Command chief Kenneth Wilsbach told reporters Friday. “And the emperor now is the Chinese Communist Party.”
Wilsbach delivered that warning just days after Malaysian forces intercepted 16 Chinese People’s Liberation Army planes, although Chinese officials denied entering Malaysian airspace. That incident is just the latest example of friction between Beijing and neighboring governments, as Chinese officials are prosecuting border disputes with Japan and the Philippines, while the PLA’S saber-rattling