カテゴリー: US politics
Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part newscaster, part professor, part friendOn a Friday night in lat…
Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part newscaster, part professor, part friendOn a Friday night in lat…
US president’s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliancesSuch is the gravitational pull cast by Donald Trump and the US economy that the politics of the other 192 countries that make up the United Nati…
Pennsylvania hosts one of the largest clusters of Bhutanese refugees in the US. Families are unsettled as Trump’s policies divide their communityIt was 2022, and the Nepali flea market in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, buzzed with life –handmade hats and co…
Nobel prize winner says US institutions have collapsed much quicker than expected under the Trump administrationThe Nobel prize winner Maria Ressa has said Americans are like “deer in the headlights” amid the collapse of US institutions and free speech…
Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel sets US on course similar to that charted by authoritarian regimes from Egypt to IndiaThe exiled Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has experienced firsthand how intolerant governments can silence political satire. And he had a …
Comments from Chinese official in Madrid have raised questions over who could control the algorithm that powers Tik Tok’s video feedDonald Trump has claimed his administration has reached a deal with China to keep TikTok operating in the US, amid uncer…
Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, has faced backlash in the US over his identity – but in Kampala, Ugandans of Indian descent are unquestioningly considered AfricanAmid the trees clustered with jackfruit and the boda boda motorcycles weaving precariousl…
For over a decade, China has been building an alternative to the US-led order, notes Andrew J SinclairI enjoyed reading George Magnus’s article (Why Peak China may finally have arrived, 11 August). However, focusing on peak economic growth misses the b…
White House denies suggestions resort in Vietnam presents conflict of interest amid row over compensation ratesVillagers whose farms in Vietnam will be bulldozed to make way for a $1.5bn golf resort backed by the Trump family have reportedly been offer…
Deal to end four-decade conflict includes creation of transit corridor named ‘Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity’The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement at the White House on Friday, in a deal brokered by the US t…
US president has been unusually reticent about plans to punish Russia if it does not agree to end Ukraine warEurope live – latest updatesAfter taking six months to conclude that Vladimir Putin may not be a kindred transactional authoritarian leader but…
No pause on Russian imports by Indian oil firms who base decisions on ‘price, grade of crude, logistics and economic factors’Indian oil refineries will continue to buy oil from Russia, officials have said, before threatened US sanctions next week again…
The administration has deported over two dozen refugees back to the very nation that tried to erase us. Democrats must speak upIn mid-March 2025, I sat quietly in the back of a small, crowded room at the Asian Refugees United center in Harrisburg, Penn…
In places like Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, blighted neighborhoods and economies have been transformedAt a time in life when many are winding down, Gunash Akhmedova, aged 65, fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening her first business.A member of the A…