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Mr Musk has previously attacked Mr Biden’s tariffs on electric cars imported from China, saying: “In general I’m in favour of no tariffs.”

A letter recently uncovered showcased Minnesota Governor and Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz bragging about Minnesota’s connection to several top Chinese leaders. The 2021 letter, discovered by Fox News Digital, was originally posted by the Minnesota International Chinese School. “Minnesota has a longstanding relationship with the people of China,” Walz (D-Minn.) wrote. “The state has promoted Minnesota’s connections with China and has hosted numerous senior Chinese leaders for decades. Thousands of Minnesotans claim ancestral connections to China, which has helped foster numerous ties between Minnesota and China.” “These ties are rapidly expanding through the growth of education, trade, and...

The number of China's billionaires has dropped by a third since 2021, according to an annual rich list, as difficulties for the country's economy and government crackdowns took their toll. Hurun, a private research group that has tracked Chinese billionaires since 1999, said the total peaked in 2021 with 1,185 billionaires, a figure which fell to 753, a decline of 432, or 36% of the total. It comes as some of China's superrich choose to lie low or leave the country, finding covert ways to take their money with them.... China's economy has been grappling with a prolonged housing crisis,...

In February 2023, Israeli-American journalist Gal Luft published an extraordinary post on X revealing the Biden family’s alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence. Since then, Luft has been arrested, released and rearrested. Meanwhile, the bombshell allegations were never investigated.

The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person. According to a rich list produced by the Hurun Research Institute, external, Zhang Yiming is now worth $49.3bn (£38bn) - 43% more than in 2023. The 41-year-old stepped down from his role in charge of the company in 2021, but is understood to own around 20% of the firm. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, despite deep concerns in some countries about its ties to the Chinese state. While both companies insist they...

The new Tiangong team will carry out experiments with an eye to the space programme's ambitious goal of placing astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and eventually constructing a lunar base. The Shenzhou-19 mission is scheduled to take off with its trio of space explorers at 4:27 am Wednesday (2027 GMT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said. Among the crew is Wang Haoze, 34, who is China's only female spaceflight engineer, according to the agency. She will become the third Chinese woman to take part in a crewed mission....

Chinese hackers tried to break into the cellphones of former President Donald Trump and GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance by compromising US telecommunications systems, a shocking breach revealed 11 days before the US election. The sophisticated hacking campaign targeted Verizon and may have gained access to data or messages sent by Trump, 78, and Vance, 40. The hack was first reported Friday by the New York Times. Trump and Vance were only informed of the situation this week, though it remains unclear how many communications — encrypted or unencrypted — were obtained or may be still accessible by...

Louisiana Attorney General Elizabeth Murrill filed a lawsuit Wednesday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that a Chinese national infected with a “rare, aggressive and drug-resistant” form of tuberculosis illegally entered the country.Murrill claimed that immigration officials exposed Americans and other detainees to the disease after they transported the Chinese “Patient Zero” to various ICE facilities around the state, according to a statement released by Louisiana’s Department of Justice. The attorney general also claimed that the illegal migrant suffers from an antibiotic-resistant form of tuberculosis with a high mortality rate.***Murrill blamed the alleged exposure on the Biden administration’s...

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022. At one point, Putin asked him to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Big @WSJ scoop

*** Mr. Gigot asks how Mr. Trump would persuade Xi Jinping to stand down from a blockade of Taiwan. “Oh, very easy,” the former president says. “I had a very strong relationship with him.... *** Mr. Trump returns to Mr. Gigot’s question: “I would say: If you go into Taiwan, I’m sorry to do this, I’m going to tax you”—meaning impose tariffs—“at 150% to 200%.” He might even shut down trade altogether. Mr. Gigot: “Would you use military force against a blockade on Taiwan?” Mr. Trump: “I wouldn’t have to, because he respects me and he knows I’m f— crazy.”...

High-ranking alumni of some of the most powerful congressional offices in the country have lobbied on behalf of companies controlled or greatly influenced by the Chinese military, disclosures show. Former congressional staffers with ties to powerful members of Congress, like Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, have worked to influence policy on behalf of Pentagon-designated “Chinese military companies” like DJI, BGI and Huawei. Chinese military companies are those the Department of Defense (DOD) has determined are “directly or indirectly owned, controlled or beneficially owned by” the Chinese military, as well as those that contribute...

The world's second-largest economy posted its slowest growth since early 2023 in the third quarter, according to data released on Friday.China’s lacklustre economic growth underscores the urgent need for policymakers to move quickly with aggressive stimulus measures to reignite its economy, said analysts at the FutureChina Global Forum held in Singapore on Friday (Oct 18). The world's second-largest economy posted its slowest growth in one-and-a-half years, according to data released on Friday. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the economy expanded 4.6 per cent year on year in the third quarter, below the 4.7 per cent pace in the...

The next president will likely preside over one of the most consequential periods in the nation’s relations with communist China, an adversary that has the intention and capacity to displace the current U.S.-led world order.Eight in 10 Americans view China unfavorably, according to a Pew Research Center report released in July.Washington also has a consensus that the Chinese regime poses a threat as it closes the power gap with the United States in military, diplomatic, and technological domains.The current approach to China began with former President Donald Trump. Identifying China as a “strategic competitor,” the Trump administration took a new...

Wednesday’s debate in the European Parliament (EP) confirmed what those on the right have long suspected: both the EP and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have become political instruments of the left-wing mainstream in their campaign against sovereign states. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán travelled to Strasbourg to outline the priorities of Hungary’s EU Presidency but found himself in the midst of a purely political and personal confrontation. Both the Commission President and the leaders of the EP’s mainstream political groups launched a series of baseless accusations and propagandistic attacks against Hungary. However, as facts are stubborn things,...

'I took the time in about three hours to fill out every single portion of that questionnaire in great detail,' VP hopeful said in 2006 congressional debate.. Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said in a 2006 survey that he would eliminate federal funding for national missile defense, a technology experts say is crucial to fending off a Chinese or Russian attack on the United States. Walz said he put a great deal of time and effort into filling out the survey, in which he laid out his views on a series of national security and other policy issues. "I...

The finance ministers of the most important BRICS countries refused to come to the meeting in Moscow. The Kremlin presented there its idea of ​​​​phasing out payments in US dollars. No one supported it. Friday's BRICS meeting in Moscow was focused on the Kremlin's announcement of a global payment system alternative to the dollar. However, it was held without the participation of finance ministers and central bank governors of China, India and South Africa, Reuters reports. The countries sent their deputies and junior officials to the meeting. China was represented in Moscow by Vice Finance Minister Liao Ming and Central...

Company documents indicate BYD Americas president Ke Li is a Chinese national with 'right of abode' in US.. Vice President Kamala Harris's billion-dollar Clean School Bus program provided funding to Chinese EV manufacturer BYD Company's subsidiary in the United States, according to federal filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Months later, the subsidiary's top executive, a Chinese national, wired $50,000 in support of what is now Harris's presidential campaign. BYD Americas was selected in late 2022 to receive $395,000 under the administration's Clean School Bus program, which was spearheaded by Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan, EPA documents show....

China launches "military drills," sending planes and ships to encircle Taiwan — AFP

...For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S. The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers. The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home...

China on Thursday urged nuclear-armed countries to make a commitment to no first-use of nukes and said that any attempt to smear or distort China's nuclear policy would be "in vain." "Nuclear-weapons states should negotiate and conclude a treaty on 'mutual no-first-use of nuclear weapons' or issue a political statement in this regard, in order to prevent nuclear arms race and reduce strategic risks," said Sun Xiaobo, director general of the Department of Arms Control under China's Foreign Ministry, according to a translation of his comments provided by the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United...