China’s tough response on US arms sales to Taiwan reflects the shift in the global balance of powerThe Chinese response to the decision of the United States to sell a $6.3bn arms package to Taiwan represents a small but significant raising of the ante. The Chinese have partially halted the military exchange programme between the two [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday.
Tensions rise as Bejing halts military exchange with WashingtonChina and the US are set for renewed confrontation after Beijing warned of serious repercussions following Washington’s announcement of a $6.4bn (£4bn) arms deal with Taiwan.Sanctions were imposed on US companies involved in the deal, and in one of a flurry of unsually strong statements condemning the [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has informed the United States it is holding a second U.S. citizen, the State Department said on Friday.
Obama Promises to Double Export Growth by 2015In promising Wednesday night to double the United States’ export growth over the next five years, President Obama set an ambitious goal for American trade policy that, he said, could create two mi…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday rebuffed a North Korean offer to reopen talks on finding U.S. soldiers missing since the Korean War, saying Pyongyang must first resume discussions on ending its nuclear ambitions.
BOSTON (Reuters) – Historian and activist Howard Zinn, whose 1980 book “A People’s History of the United States” was a rallying cry for the American left in a conservative era, has died aged 87.
The American historian, playwright and author of the bestseller A People’s History of the United States, which presents a leftist view of US history, has diedAmerican historian, playwright and social activist Howard Zinn died yesterday, aged 87.The author of the million-plus bestseller A People’s History of the United States, which gave a leftist view of [...]
Barack Obama’s state of the union speech focused on the economy, where he must make progress to regain momentumBarack Obama opened his first state of the union speech by noting that the United States has seen dark days when “victory was very much in doubt” and “the future was anything but certain”. Early on, the [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Japanese company Nipro Corp has recalled 2 million needles distributed in the United States that are used for withdrawing blood, injecting medicine and accessing ports under patients’ skin for repeated access to veins, U.S. healt…