As U.S. lawmakers visited Taiwan this month, Chinese officials criticized the move, believing it meant the U.S. backed the island’s independence. And the tension under these circumstances is nothing new. It began when Republic of China leaders fled the mainland during the communist takeover in 1949. Taiwan became an independently-governed democracy, while China viewed it as…

United States climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart announced Wednesday that the world’s two largest polluters have made a deal to cooperate on combatting climate change. The goal is to accelerate the emissions reductions required to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. “President Biden had a conversation with President Xi a…

China has built mockups in the likeness of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and other warships, according to satellite images courtesy of Maxar Technologies. The U.S. Naval Institute reported the structures have been used for ballistic missile testing. Tensions have recently risen between the China and the U.S., as the latter country publicly backed Taiwan’s…

The Justice Department announced Monday it has charged two suspected criminal hackers in connection to a wave of ransomware attacks. The two suspected hackers are Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinskyi and Russian Yevgeniy Polyanin. “According to the indictments, Vasinskyi and Polyanin accessed the internal computer networks of several victim companies and deployed Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware to encrypt the…

According to a Pentagon report released Wednesday, China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than Pentagon officials had predicted a year ago. The report took a wide-ranging look at “military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China” (PRC). “The accelerating pace of the PRC’s nuclear expansion may enable the PRC to have…

China pushed back against Taiwan’s continued desire to rejoin the United Nations on Wednesday, according to Agence France-Presse. This comes after the U.S. expressed support for Taiwan’s effort. “Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the UN system is not a political issue, but a pragmatic one,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on…

A day after President Joe Biden went after China with his comments on Taiwan, Beijing fired back Friday. A spokesperson for the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the situation in Taiwan “purely an internal affair of China that allows no foreign intervention”. “When it comes to issues related to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity…

On the same day Greek officials handed over the Olympic flame to 2022 Beijing Winter Games organizers, human rights groups called for a boycott of the Games. The video above showed both the handing over of the flame Tuesday, as well as the flame arriving in Beijing Wednesday. “In accordance with the requirement to hold…

Over the course of just hours, dozens of people were killed in Norway, Taiwan and Lebanon due to violence and fire on Wednesday and Thursday. The video above shows clips from three different deadly events. The most unusual and notable of the events happened in Norway, where a man used a bow and arrow and…

As the United States appears to be switching its foreign policy approach from the Middle East to the conflict between Taiwan and China, a Friday blast killed at least 46 people and wounded dozens more at a mosque in Afghanistan. The video above shows the wreckage left behind by the attack. The explosion happened as…