Politics

President Xi Jinping warned his US counterpart, Joe Biden, in a phone call on Thursday against “external interference” in Beijing’s dealings with the island.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told an Arab summit in Cairo that Moscow’s goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its ‘unacceptable regime’

The US ignored China’s warning of ‘yao guan’ in 1950 about intervening in the Korean war, resulting in strained relations until the 1970s

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly press conference at the US Capitol on July 21, when she said “it’s important for us to show support for Taiwan.”

On Friday, just two days after Wickremesinghe secured the presidency, police and security forces conducted a violent pre-dawn raid on the main protest encampment in Galle Face

Taiwanese military personnel take part in a military exercise simulating a Chinese invasion, amid rising tensions with the west and Beijing over the island

If the visit goes ahead, Nancy Pelosi would be the highest-ranked US official to visit Taiwan since 1997.

In his view, Mike Pence could thwart formal congressional certification of Trump’s re-election loss

Political stability is central to getting Pakistan’s economy back on track with IMF assistance and avoiding a debt default

Woolley called on Sunak, who spoke in 2020 about suffering racist abuse, which “stings in a way that very few other things have”, to go further by acknowledging and acting on structural racism.