Balram Banskota August 24, 2020
The Israel–United Arab Emirates peace agreement, or the Abraham Accord, was agreed by Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on August 13, 2020. The UAE last week became the first Gulf state to normalize relations with Israel, in a US - as a broker in the accord...More
Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to order the release of more secretly-kept information related to her arrest at Vancouver airport in 2018 - which observers said that would be key for Meng's extradition case and decisive whether...More
Seventy-five years ago, Japan was defeated in World War II and was hence "completely disarmed and demilitarized." Since then, the US has been using Japan's pacifist constitution to control the island nation. The pacifist constitution was originally intended to allow other countries to keep track of Japan and...More
The US government's latest crackdown on chip supplies for Huawei Technologies Co sparked widespread backlash from Chinese officials and industry leaders on Tuesday, underscoring the force of mounting opposition against an increasingly erratic US administration whose reckless words and deeds could cause deep disruptions and losses for global...More
The latest figures from a July 30-August 12 Gallup survey of 1,031 US adults show that 41 percent of the polled approve of US President Donald Trump's handling of foreign affairs, which is down from 48 percent in early February. Roughly 57 percent disapprove of the president's handling...More
As prospects for international cooperation dwindle thanks to US President Donald Trump's animosity toward multilateralism and shirking of international responsibilities under the slogans of "America First" and "Make America Great Again," a hypothetical question is raised: What will happen if China adopts slogans like "China First" and "Make...More
More Americans are saying that they cannot afford enough food for themselves or their children, and the situation may even get worse as some US government benefits have expired, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Sunday. Economists believe the problem seems to be "worse than it...More
More than 62 million samples of malicious computer programs were captured last year in China, with the US accounting for 53.5 percent of all overseas attacks, according to the 2019 China Internet Network Security Report released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China...More
Imports from Hong Kong to the US will be labeled "Made in China" instead of "Made in Hong Kong" from September 25, according to a notice published on Tuesday by the US Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security. Analysts said that while Hong Kong will suffer...More
The US government's clampdown on TikTok is nothing more than a trick of certain politicians to seek political interests with excuses that can hardly justify themselves. Unfortunately, some observers cannot see through this. Worse, certain Western elites have a twisted mind-set on a Chinese social media app that...More
Following his short trip to the UK and Denmark in July, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will now visit the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, and Poland this week. Pompeo has paid multiple visits to Europe, especially to non-core European countries, for a new strategic layout of the...More
Trump's suppression of China-US ties and hatred against China since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus are now blatantly challenging the value of free and open markets and the one-China policy. The game with the US will become China's most complex, acute and critical long-term strategic task in...More
Beijing. The latest poll by the Global Times on China-US relations shows US likeability among Chinese people is waning, as its "democracy bubble" bankrupted during pandemic. The poll received more than 146,000 responses by Tuesday afternoon with 31 percent of respondents saying they "used to like the US...More
Kathmandu. With an electoral shock to the US President Donald Trump, the United Nations Security Council late Friday rejected a resolution from the US to extend an arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October. The US that claims of creating and leading a new world order...More
HAVANA. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday that the U.S. government has suspended private charter flights to Cuba, including those to Havana. According to a statement released today, all charters between the United States and Cuba over which the Department of Transportation exercises jurisdiction will be...More