Day: April 1, 2023

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou, whose opposition Kuomintang espouses closer ties with China, began a visit there on Monday with a call for peace, as incumbent Tsai Ing-wen’s Democratic Progressive Party accused Ma of “endorsing” Beijing’s territorial claim on the island.…

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The General Staff of North Macedonia has backed the transfer to Ukraine of 12 Mi-24 military helicopters that it purchased from Kyiv two decades ago, Macedonian Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said on March 25. The transfer still must receive government…

Washington Post columnist and deputy editorial page editor Karen Tumulty dropped a truth bomb about the Biden administration on Friday. Speaking on “PBS NewsHour” about Russia’s detention of reporter Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal, she admitted that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been incentivized to detain Gershkovich because of the whole Brittney…

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Friday, people familiar with the matter said, as the two sides look to ease tensions that have continued to build in recent months. Sullivan’s previously unreported call took place days before Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen is scheduled to stop in…

Syria’s chief diplomat was in Egypt on Saturday in a step toward normalizing ties between the two countries. It was the first trip to the capital of Cairo for a Syrian foreign minister in over a decade.

Japan will impose export restrictions on 23 semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the government said on Friday, amid an ongoing spat between the United States and China over chip technology. The export control measures will take effect in July and cover equipment for cleaning, checkups, and lithography—a key technology in manufacturing advanced semiconductors—according to the Ministry of…

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The United States has strongly condemned the detention of a U.S. journalist in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges and demanded his immediate release. U.S. officials have been in touch with the family of journalist Evan Gershkovich as…

In her sophomore year at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Nancy Skeans was held captive in a dark box the size of a casket for more than five hours to see how she would react. Sleep deprivation scenes also played out as she was required to sit on a one-legged stool, alone in a room for extended periods…

“Unprecedented” Chinese Genetic Experiment May Lead To Army Of Radiation-Resistant Super Soldiers Reports out of China continue to confirm that scientists there are still seeking to push through barriers with Frankenstein-like experimentation on genes with an eye toward the manipulation of human DNA – any and all ethical considerations be damned. What could go wrong? …

For his opening monologue tonight, Fox News host Tucker Carlson highlights the increased visibility of the dual justice system as it has shown up in just the past 48 hours. Using the Douglass Mackey conviction and the Donald Trump indictment, both from the state of New York, Carlson puts an exclamation point on the toxic…