Washington, June 9 (IANS) Two senior Democratic senators have urged the Trump administration to restore proposed port fees on Chinese ships, arguing that the move is essential to rebuilding America’s shrinking shipbuilding industry and reducing dependence on China in a sector increasingly viewed as critical to national security.In a letter to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mark Kelly said the administration should reinstate Section 301 fees and restrictions…
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New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) The European Union’s trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic said the bloc is developing new trade instruments to reduce its dependence on China, a new report has said.“We are using our existing tools more assertively. Where gaps exist, we are also building new tools… Diversification now requires a dedicated instrument,” Sefcovic told the annual Brussels Economic Security Forum, according to a report from Euractiv.Sefcovic warned that the EU’s current trajectory of acc…
Seoul, June 8 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Monday deepening ties with China is his country’s top policy priority, as he held summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Pyongyang, according to a report.The Kim-Xi talks came hours after the Chinese leader arrived in Pyongyang for his first State Visit in nearly seven years, Yonhap news agency reported.Developing friendship between the North and China is “the people’s choice and the calling of the times,” China’s Xinhua News A…
Seoul, June 7 (IANS) The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said her country’s status as a nuclear-armed state is absolutely irreversible, calling it a “line of no retreat” and vowing not to tolerate any threats against it, the North’s state media reported on Sunday. Kim Yo-jong made the remarks in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), in which she reiterated Pyongyang’s position that its nuclear weapons program is nonnegotiable while rejecting international ef…
Beijing, June 6 (IANS) A leading human rights organisation has condemned China for preventing the family members of the victims killed in Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown from visiting their loved ones’ graves during this week’s 37th anniversary, describing the move as a “heartless act”.Amnesty International said that the Chinese authorities must be held accountable for the grave human rights violations committed during the June 4, 1989 crackdown. It further demanded that the fa…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Cheap Chinese products have flooded the European markets, becoming a major technological rival for Europeans, who underestimated its capacity for innovation, according to a new report.The European Union (EU) is apparently trying to “build a strategy that protects its industrial base without triggering a full-scale trade dispute with Beijing”, according to the report in Le Monde.Beijing is now competing in innovation-driven and high-value-added production sectors, inc…
Brussels, June 6 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping has been accused of weaponising legislation to extend repression beyond Tibet’s borders. China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, adopted in March this year and scheduled to come into force in July 2026, has drawn criticism from the UN experts, who warned that it risks “entrenching forced assimilation and encouraging transnational repression”, a report has highlighted. This legal framework reflects Beijing’s efforts aimed not on…
Washington, June 6 (IANS) Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, has invited Nvidia President and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang to testify at a public hearing on artificial intelligence next week, placing renewed focus on the company’s business interests in China and US export controls.In a letter dated June 4, Warren asked Huang to appear before members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs at a hearing scheduled for June 11 i…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) China strategy of taking up economic projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in developing countries with the objective of extending its geopolitical clout across regions appears to have run into a hurdle when it comes to spreading its influence to Latin America, according to an article in The Diplomat.China’s strategy has shaped its global expansion from Africa and Southeast Asia to the Pacific Islands and Latin America. It has also helped explain why Beij…
Washington, June 5 (IANS) A congressional hearing on Thursday sharply focused on China’s role in the global fentanyl supply chain, with Republican lawmakers accusing Beijing of failing to curb the flow of precursor chemicals that fuel America’s deadly opioid crisis, while witnesses called for stronger enforcement, sanctions and international cooperation. The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific convened a hearing titled “Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the…