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China Is Taking Steps Toward Controlling the South China Sea As of several years ago, China had already reclaimed over thousands of acres of the area throughout the region, an island-building process caught on video by U.S. Navy Poseidon spy planes years ago.  Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Pentagon’s long-standing opposition to Chinese phony island-building, or “land reclamation,” in the South China Sea is based upon the definition of “island” as it is explained in the U.N. Convention Law of the Sea, an international agreement negotiated in the 1980s and updated in the ...

First, he was asked by Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking member on the committee about the use of slave labor in China to make and sell solar panels used by much of the rest of the world, including, unfortunately, the United States. Mr. McCaul, who leads the China Task Force in the House, simply asked: “How can you assure us, this quest that we’re on [clean energy] that slave labor coming out of China where genocide is taking place as we speak, is never a part of the climate solution in the United States?” Mr. Kerry, an experienced diplomat and denizen of Washington for his entire adult ...

Both parties bash China but differ on how to confront it Mica Soellner © Provided by Washington Examiner In a deeply divided Congress, China seems to be one of the few issues that have caught the attention and drawn the ire of lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle. Last year, Republicans made sure to tie the coronavirus pandemic to its origin of Wuhan all the way to Election Day. In President Joe Biden’s first few months in the White House, he’s made China a key element of foreign policy goals, warning members in his first address to a joint session of Congress ...

US defence officials stress strategic partnership to help India ​ Fri, May 7 2021 8:27 IST | ​ 1 Views US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin (Photo:twitter). Image Source: IANS News New York, May 7 : US defence officials have emphasised the strategic partnership with India in helping it in the time of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. "The US Defence Department will continue to stand by India in its moment of need and support US assistance efforts in the days and weeks ahead," Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Colin Kahl told India's Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar on Thursday, according to...

US Congressman lauds India's decision on 5G networks ANI 06 May 2021, 12:37 GMT+10 Washington DC [US], May 6 (ANI): Michael McCaul, US House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican, and China Task Force Chairman, has praised India's decision to exclude Chinese "Communist Party-controlled" companies from participating in the country's 5G networks. "India's decision to exclude Huawei and ZTE from its 5G trials is good news for the people of India and the world. People's Republic of China law requires any Chinese company - including Huawei and ZTE - to work for the Chinese Communist Party if a...