カテゴリー: Mike Pompeo
Chinese foreign ministry announced sanctions against Mike Pompeo and 27 others as Biden was taking presidential oathChina has said it wants to cooperate with Joe Biden’s new US administration, while announcing sanctions against the “lying and cheating”…
Tensions already high between Washington and BeijingTrump aide says former measures meant to appease ChineseSecretary of state Mike Pompeo is lifting restrictions on contacts between US officials and their Taiwanese counterparts, a move welcomed by Tai…
Zhang Zhan, who reported from city at start of pandemic, was sentenced to four years in jailThe European Union and United States have demanded that China release a citizen journalist jailed for her reports on the early outbreak of the coronavirus pande…
Explosions come ahead of separate scheduled meetings between Mike Pompeo, Taliban and Afghan government officials in Doha At least three people have been killed in a series of loud explosions that shook central Kabul, including several rockets that lan…
State department says ‘no credible’ evidence the East Turkestan Islamic Movement exists The United States has removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinji…
Abu Muhsin al-Masri was on FBI’s most-wanted list and had been charged with terrorism offences in USAfghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior al-Qaida leader who was on the FBI’s most-wanted list, Afghanistan’s National Directora…
Mike Pompeo says move is part of efforts to push back against ‘propaganda efforts’; Chinese state media says Beijing will retaliateThe state department is designating the US operations of six more China-based media companies as foreign missions, US sec…
Under Trump, the US has taken a back seat on many major international issues, compared to previous administrationsHeadlines last week that the presidents of Russia and France were jointly calling for a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh were “heartbreaking”…
Pope Francis reportedly declining to meet US secretary of state who says the Catholic church too soft on BeijingMike Pompeo will visit the Vatican to protest against the imminent renewal of a deal between the Catholic church and China, which the US sec…
Democrats write to secretary of state over claims Beijing is helping to develop yellowcake factory Congressional Democrats have asked the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to provide information about China’s alleged role in building a uranium proces…
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps assets frozenPompeo: China’s treatment of minorities is ‘stain of the century’The United States has imposed sanctions on a major economic and paramilitary organization with vast interests in China’s north-west…
WHO chief says Pompeo made ‘untrue’ comments; US passes 4m cases as Trump cancels part of Republican convention; Melbourne records 300 new casesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus crisis could spark huge waves of…
US Secretary of state calls for countries to triumph over Beijing’s ‘new tyranny’ as four Chinese nationals charged with visa fraudUS secretary of state Mike Pompeo has called on “free nations” to triumph over the threat of what he said was a “new tyra…
US secretary of state said the World Health Organization was responsible for Britons who had died from Covid-19Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US secretary of state Mike Pompeo launched an extraordinary attack on the Wor…
China says it never sought to ‘build an empire’ in reply to Pompeo’s claim offshore development is unlawfulBeijing has called the US a “troublemaker” after strong criticism from Washington of its claims in the South China Sea and announced sanctions on…