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The resumption of trade marks an improvement in relations and comes a day after Australia-China ministerial talks
Australian coal cargoes are scheduled to start arriving at Chinese ports on Wednesday, unwinding an unofficial ban imposed amid fraying bilateral relations two-and-a-half years ago.
The resumption of the bilateral coal trade marks a significant improvement in relations, which hit a low point at the start of the pandemic after Australia pushed for an independent investigation into the origins of Covid-19, angering Beijing officials.

The U.S. military has gotten its hands on some pieces of the Chinese spy balloon. An F-22 fighter jet shot down the Chinese balloon with a Sidewinder missile on Saturday (Feb. 4) just Department of ...

Nikki Haley has broken new ground as the first Asian American woman to seek the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Yet this milestone has gone mostly unnoticed. The impact of Haley’s heritage ...

Nikki Haley has broken new ground as the first Asian American woman to seek the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Yet this milestone has gone mostly unnoticed. The impact of Haley’s heritage ...

Chinese propaganda also appears to be walking a fine line: looking tough for the crowd at home, without further derailing relations with the United States.

Vivian Yan-Gonzalez is a historian of 20th century Asian American politics and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The president has taken steps meant to limit China’s technological advancement and bolster military forces in the Asia-Pacific region.

Republican extremist appears to reference Chinese surveillance dirigible by parading halls of Congress with white balloon
Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to tee up a State of the Union stunt on Tuesday, patrolling the halls of Congress with in reference to Republican criticism of Joe Biden over his handling of a flight over US territory by a Chinese surveillance dirigible.
“Just an innocent white balloon everybody,” the Georgia extremist , hours before Biden’s address to Congress, attempting to keep aloft the balloon saga which ended when it was shot down off the Carolinas on Saturday.

‘Blank Paper movement’ decrying government policies rekindles dissent after Xi Jinping’s decade of iron-fisted crackdowns
Cao Zhixin was an ordinary young woman with no political ambition, but a fateful decision to take to the streets one night last year has inadvertently turned her into the face of resistance in China.
“She was just a girl who was keen on books, she didn’t have great ambitions,” says a close friend who spoke to the Guardian but requested anonymity for fear of reprisals. “She said all she wanted was a husband, kids and a warm bed.”

Chinese officials rejected a request from the U.S. defense secretary to speak with his counterpart after an American fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon.

Air force report details balloon while Pentagon officials say China had sent three over the US during Trump’s time in office
A “drifted past Hawaii and across Florida” as it “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019, four years before the American military shot down another one this past weekend, according to a US air force intelligence report reviewed by .
China “launched and controlled” the high-altitude balloon, which was “capable of operating at “65,000ft to 328,000ft and for months at a time”, in 2019, according to the report seen by CNN. The report did not make clear when the US became aware of the 2019 balloon.