Category: US-China relations

House Passes $280 Billion CHIPS Act Without China Provision, Sending Bill to Biden’s Desk

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CHIPS and Science Act on July 28, allocating funding for a bill now nearly two years old. The new legislation, which is now headed to President Joe Biden’s desk for signing, will allocate $250 billion in subsidies, tax breaks, and research grants to prop up the domestic semiconductor…


House Passes $280 Billion CHIPS Act Without China Provision, Sending Legislation to Biden’s Desk

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CHIPS and Science Act on July 28, allocating funding for a measure now nearly two years old. The new legislation, which is now headed to President Joe Biden’s desk for signing, will allocate $250 billion in subsidies, tax breaks, and research grants to prop up the domestic semiconductor…


House Passes $280 Billion CHIPS Act Without China Provision, Sends Legislation to Biden’s Desk

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CHIPS and Science Act on July 28, allocating funding for a measure that’s now nearly two years old. The new legislation, which now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for signing, will allocate $250 billion in subsidies, tax breaks, and research grants to prop up the domestic semiconductor…


House Speaker Pelosi Invites Senior Lawmakers to Join Taiwan Trip: NBC Report

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has invited at least three lawmakers to join her planned trip to Taiwan, according to some contacts familiar with the matter, NBC News reported. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas.), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an interview at the U.S. Capitol that he and Committee Chairman…


China’s Xi Threatens US Over Taiwan in 2-Hour Phone Call: ‘Playing With Fire Will Set You on Fire’

President Joe Biden held a phone call with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on July 28. The call was the fifth of its kind between Biden and Xi and lasted more than two hours. The call comes amid a myriad of tensions that have caused Sino–U.S. relations to fall to their lowest point…


China’s Xi Threatens Biden Over Taiwan in 2-Hour Phone Call: ‘Playing With Fire Will Set You on Fire’

President Joe Biden held a phone call with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on July 28. The call was the fifth of its kind between Biden and Xi and lasted more than two hours. The call comes amid a myriad of tensions that have caused Sino–U.S. relations to fall to their lowest point…


Xi to Biden: US ‘Playing With Fire’ on Taiwan

President Joe Biden held a phone call with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping on July 28. The call was the fifth of its kind between Biden and Xi, and lasted well over two hours. The call came amid a myriad of tensions that have caused Sino-American relations to fall to their lowest…


China’s Xi Threatens United States in 2-hour Phone Call: ‘Playing With Fire Will Set You on Fire’

President Joe Biden held a phone call with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on July 28. The call was the fifth of its kind between Biden and Xi and lasted more than two hours. The call comes amid a myriad of tensions that have caused Sino–U.S. relations to fall to their lowest point…


Is the Protection of Taiwan a Vital Interest of Australia?

Commentary Paul Keating, the former prime minister of Australia, has criticised the proposed congressional visit to Taiwan of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. In a statement, released on July 25, he said that the congressional delegation, headed by Pelosi, might “degenerate into military hostilities” and that it is hard to…


Bloody Batteries: China’s Exploitation of Congolese Children for Cobalt in Electric Car Batteries

Mining companies backed by the Chinese regime are using Congolese children to mine cobalt, a key component in electric car batteries. Are American carmakers helping China to exploit African children? China dominates the world’s cobalt processing. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there are unsafe working conditions, pay of less than $1 a day, injuries,…