The US dollar has recently been losing value against other currencies, dropping nearly 5% in July, its biggest monthly fall in more than 10 years. This decline is prompting economists worldwide to re-assess the role of the dollar as a global reserve...
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LONDON (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom aspired to regain independence in decision-making after leaving the European Union, but is now becoming increasingly reliant on US policy instead, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrei Kelin told...
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As the clock is ticking for Microsoft or another company to acquire TikTok in the U.S. by mid-September, a new potential buyer may have emerged. Twitter has had preliminary talks with TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, WSJ...
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China's Indo-Pacific Neighbors Stand Up To Its Hegemonic Ambitions
Tyler Durden
Sat, 08/08/2020 - 23:00
Authored by Tahir Aslam Gora via The Epoch Times,
After finding itself cornered over the handling of the novel...
Jim Banks
Global Economy, Asia
The U.S. government should develop better, near-real-time insight into supply chains.
Here's What You Need To Know: The Chinese government’s “Made in China 2025” strategy to consolidate manufacturing supply...
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FTC Weighs In On Mystery Seeds From China, Citing Two Online Shopping Scams As Potential Motives
Tyler Durden
Sat, 08/08/2020 - 20:30
Days ago, we wrote that the U.S. had finally started to identify some of the mystery seeds...
Patrick Mendis, Joey Wang
Security, Asia
Beijing’s aggressive reclamation and militarization of the Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands in 2014 should have immediately made clear that Chinese objectives were not just about fish, gas, and...
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Kris Osborn
Security, Asia
Aircraft carriers, stealth fighters, anti-satellite weapons, drones, cyber attack technology and a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles are all among a series of Chinese weapons said to present serious concerns for...
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Huawei. TikTok. Who's next?
The United States government this week launched a new phase in its campaign to push back on Chinese technology firms, announcing efforts to block cloud and software companies from China from thriving in the West.
The move...
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Gold has hit a record high of US$2,075.2 per ounce this week as investors see it as a sanctuary amid global uncertainty and bad relations between the US and China.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Supporting its all-weather ally Pakistan in its quest for Kashmir, China has not only termed the reorganization of the territory by India as “illegal and invalid,” but gone so far as to raise the issue at the United Nations...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his trip to the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and Austria next week will discuss the security of 5G networks and China’s attempts to penetrate them, Acting US Assistant Secretary...
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Taiwan’s Republic of China Air Force launched two multirole F-16 fighters fitted with anti-ship missiles from Hualien Air Force Base this week following reports that forces from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would be holding drills...
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As hue and cry rises in US media over whether Russian security contractors are involved in the Libyan civil war, one activist told Sputnik the US has no room to judge, since it created the chaos in Libya and deploys its own mercenaries around the...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): India has been demanding that China restore the status quo along the Ladakh border, where the military forces of the two nations have amassed troops and weaponry since April-May. The corps commanders of India and China have held...
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President Trump announced on Saturday he will sign executive orders on China Coronavirus stimulus payments to the American public.
President Trump RIPPED Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats for holding the talks...
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Relations between Washington and Beijing are rapidly deteriorating — and Hong Kong is at the center of the fight.
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The miscounting and fraudulent numbers related to the China coronavirus just keep coming. Unrelated deaths are being counted as COVID-19 related and deaths from days and weeks ago are suddenly being attributed to today’s COVID-19 mortality...
Rod Lyon
Security, Asia
So far, the standard rule of thumb has been that—under a nuclear test ban—nuclear-weapon states could make modifications to their weapons that fall within the design range of their previous testing experience.
Here's...
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Peter Suciu
Security, Asia
For now, the J-20 and Rafale haven’t engaged in the air just the airwaves, but both countries seem to believe they have the better aircraft.
In recent months it has been China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)...
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