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Maritime authorities say they called off pursuit of commandeered vessel to avoid inflaming conflict
Taiwan has demanded that Beijing releases a Taiwanese fishing boat that was boarded by the Chinese coastguard and steered to a port in mainland China.
The Dajinman 88 was intercepted by two Chinese vessels late on Tuesday near the , which lies a short distance off China’s coast but is controlled by Taiwan, the Taiwanese coastguard said.

By moving operations to U.S. trading partners like Morocco, Chinese players that have long dominated the battery supply chain are seeking a pathway to cash in on increasing demand from American ...

By moving operations to U.S. trading partners like Morocco, Chinese players that have long dominated the battery supply chain are seeking a pathway to cash in on increasing demand from American ...

Latest satellite photos indicate the probable establishment of new spy bases in Cuba connected to Chinese intelligence, according to a recent report by the American Center for Strategic and ...

The Taliban’s delegation to the third United Nations-led Doha meeting on increasing engagement with Afghanistan met with U.S. envoys on the sidelines and discussed the two Americans imprisoned in the ...

Department of Homeland Security says it plans more such ‘large charter flights’, sparking concerns for safety of migrants escaping poverty or repression
The US has sent back 116 Chinese migrants in the first such “large charter flight” in five years, the Department of Homeland Security has said.
“We will continue to enforce our immigration laws and remove individuals without a legal basis to remain in the United States,” homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.

SCO summit brings together leaders of global south but also likely to test Beijing and Moscow’s ‘strategic partnership’
Leaders from China, Russia and countries in the global south are gathering in Kazakhstan for the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a group that has been described as the “anti-Nato”.
The summit is part of China’s efforts to establish what it calls a “multilateral” world order that is not dominated by the US. But it is also a forum in which China and Russia’s “strategic partnership” will be tested by their competing desires to wield influence in central Asia.

The United States has conducted its first "large" removal flight of Chinese migrants since 2018, the Biden administration said.

Despite most of the automaker's bottom line owing itself to the sale of pickup trucks and other gas-guzzling vehicles, the Ford CEO recognized that Americans need to adopt smaller vehicles if the ...

For the first time, an Asian American woman, Jenn Tran, will star on The Bachelorette this season. And while the New Jersey-raised child of Vietnamese immigrants is obviously excited about the ...

Jim Farley says country is ‘in love with these monster vehicles’ but big cars are not sustainable in the age of EV
It is time for the US to “get back in love” with smaller cars, according to the chief executive of Ford.
at the Aspen Ideas festival, Jim Farley said the auto industry needs to focus on smaller EVs and commercial vehicles. He acknowledged that American consumers are in “love with these monster vehicles” but said they need to “get back in love” with small cars.

CSIS calls site near Guantánamo a ‘powerful tool’ that will be able to monitor air and maritime activity of US military
Satellite images appear to show that Cuba is building a new radar site likely to be capable of spying on the US’s nearby naval base, in the latest upgrade to the country’s surveillance capabilities long thought to be linked to China.
The base, under construction since 2021 but previously not publicly reported, is east of the city of Santiago de Cuba near the El Salao neighborhood, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report published on Monday and later referenced by the Wall Street Journal.