China seeking to spy on the U.S. from a base in Cuba
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The move would allow Beijing to surveil the southeastern United States, home to many military facilities and sensitive industries. The Biden administration is not confirming China’s interest in securing access to a military facility in Cuba. | Thibault Camus/AP Photo By ALEXANDER WARD and JOE GOULD 06/08/2023 09:55 AM EDT Updated: 06/08/2023 05:55 PM EDT China is in talks with Cuba to ...
Ex-Samsung exec charged with stealing trade secrets to create copycat chip factory in China
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By KIM TONG-HYUNGJune 12, 2023 FILE - The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co. is seen at its office in Seoul, South Korea on Jan. 31, 2023. South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung Electronics suspected of stealing trade secrets while attempting to establish a copycat computer chip plant in China.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File) ...
Authorities in Lhasa crack down on illegal use of satellite dishes
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They are confiscating the equipment of Tibetans who access foreign programs.By Sangyal Kunchok for RFA Tibetan 2023.06.14 Police talk to a Tibetan about his satellite dish during a check of households to ensure residents access only state-sanctions programs, in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet autonomous Region, June 13, 2023 Chinese authorities began searching homes in the Tibetan capital Lhasa this ...
U.S. Sen. Rubio introduces bill to beef up air bases that would defend Taiwan
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Bill is latest attempt to counter potential Chinese invasion of TaiwanBy Eugene Whong for RFA 2023.05.11 Washington U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 19, 2023 U.S. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced a bill that seeks to strengthen American air bases in the Indo-Pacific region to better respond to mainland Chinese aggression ...
Video shows China ship’s ‘unsafe’ maneuver with US destroyer in Taiwan Strait
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By Caitlin DoornbosJune 5, 2023 A video released by the US Navy shows a Chinese ship cutting across the path of the USS Chung-Hoon in the Taiwan Strait.Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Andre T. Richard/U.S. Navy via AP WASHINGTON – The US Navy released a damning video Monday of a Chinese warship deliberately cutting across the path of a US guided-missile destroyer in ...
US Defense Secretary ‘deeply concerned’ about China’s unwillingness to engage
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Beijing hits back at Austin, accusing the U.S. of destroying stability in the Taiwan Strait.Reported by RFA Staff from Singapore. 2023.06.03U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks at the First Plenary Session of the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore June 3, 2023 UPDATED at 12:44 p.m. ET on 2023-06-11U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has urged China’s military leaders ...
US bill seeks ‘enhanced’ Uyghur genocide sanctions
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France’s Senate also approves a bill seeking an E.U. version of America’s ban on imports tied to slave labor.RFA Uyghur 2023.06.02 A car passes a billboard showing machines harvesting cotton outside a Huafu Fashion plant in Aksu in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 20, 2021 A bill introduced into the U.S. Senate on Wednesday would force businesses to ...
China's data securities laws pose costly challenge for JPMorgan
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CEO of bank's China fund management arm says 'more and more' resources needed Eddy Wong, CEO of JPMorgan Asset Management's fully owned fund manager in China, is hoping to tap into a 26.53 trillion yuan ($3.73 trillion) mutual fund market in the country. © Getty Images ECHO WONG and KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei staff reportersJune 6, 2023 18:41 JST ...
Feds sue crypto giant Binance, CEO Changpeng Zhao for ‘operating web of deception’
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By ReutersJune 5, 2023 The world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance was founded in Shanghai in 2017 by CEO Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian citizen.REUTERS US regulators sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday for allegedly operating a “web of deception,” piling further pressure on the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange and sending bitcoin to its lowest in almost three months.The Securities and Exchange Commission complaint, filed in a federal ...
Philippines, Japan, US coast guards kick off first trilateral sea exercises
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The current drills also follow an announcement by Manila and Tokyo that they would boost defense ties.By Jeoffrey Maitem and Camille Elemia for BenarNews 2023.06.01 ManilaMembers of the Philippine Coast Guard wave American, Japanese and Filipino flags during welcome ceremonies for Japanese and American coast guard ships as they dock at Manila’s South Harbor, June 1, 2023 The coast guards ...
Chinese 'debt-trap' crippling poor economies, endangering US national security
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Terms of Chinese loans are secretive but thought to feature unfavorable terms By Michael Lee | Fox NewsPublished May 31, 2023 7:00am EDTAmerica needs to put hard power in the path of China's Xi Jinping: GallagherHouse Select Committee on China Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., lays out his plan for the United States to deal with the growing threat from China on ...
Watchdog Says Iran Executed At Least 142 People In May, Calls For International Pressure
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June 01, 2023By RFE/RL's Radio Farda Iran Human Rights (IHR) says at least 142 people were executed in Iran in May, the highest monthly total in eight years, amid a brutal crackdown on dissent that the Norway-based watchdog says is aimed at spreading "societal fear."The group added in a statement released on June 1 that so far this year, the death penalty ...
Call for Putin to be replaced... on state TV: Extraordinary criticism is levelled at Vladimir on Russian channel for the first time since Ukraine invasion
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Boris Nadezhdin said Russian must choose a replacement for Putin in electionsBy RACHAEL BUNYAN PUBLISHED: 15:41 BST, 1 June 2023 | UPDATED: 16:02 BST, 1 June 2023 +7View galleryOpposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who has criticised Russia's invasion of Ukraine, said on Russia's NTV channel that Russians must choose a different leader in the country's 2024 elections+7View galleryNadezhdin said that a different government would allow Russia to ...
Arrest Putin, South Africa’s opposition urges government
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Russian president should be ‘detained’ if he visits South Africa for BRICS summit in August, party says. Russia has yet to confirm whether Vladimir Putin will attend the BRICS summit in person | Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images BY ELENA GIORDANO AND NICOLAS CAMUT MAY 30, 2023 The last time an accused war criminal visited South Africa, he had to cut his ...
South Africa investigating US charge of supplying arms to Russia
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US ambassador in Pretoria accuses country of providing arms to Russia despite its stated neutrality in the Ukraine war. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is seen with South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, right [File: Sergei Chirikov/Pool photo via AP Photo] Published On 11 May 202311 May 2023 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said an investigation is under way ...
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