The island will carry out the first leg of its largest annual military drills, the Han Huang exercises, between April 23 and 30, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, noting that the second phase would come in July and include real-world field maneuvers. “The drills are designed based on the …
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“Nothing would fundamentally change” if he got elected, Joe Biden told a group of billionaires at a fundraising event during the 2020 presidential campaign. Like the saying goes, when someone tells you who they are, believe them. As I stood up to tell my own history with Joe Biden, his …
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“We have this narrative of supposedly European values, whatever they are, that we’re supposed to bring them to the rest of the world and that Russia isn’t playing ball with that, which is obviously nonsense,” Daly told RT on Wednesday. Daly made waves on the floor of the European Parliament …
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“We have this narrative of supposedly European values, whatever they are, that we’re supposed to bring them to the rest of the world and that Russia isn’t playing ball with that, which is obviously nonsense,” Daly told RT on Wednesday. Daly made waves on the floor of the European Parliament …
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“We will probably need a supplemental [budget] for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday. Asked to specify her “enemy within” comment, …
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Speaking at an online forum on Thursday, Ambassador Cui Tiankai urged the US to abandon its hostile mindset and not treat Beijing as its foe of any sort. Treating China as a strategic rival and imaginary enemy would be a huge strategic misjudgment. To develop any policy on the basis …
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Aside from celebrities cautiously expressing varying levels of distaste with Donald Trump being banned from Twitter, another response has come from the international political class. German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced her concern. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is taking it further. He stated that he will be making a …
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News channels on the Telegram messaging service allege that an unverified video shows Armenian soldiers cutting an ear off a fallen Azeri soldier, before holding it up to the camera as a grizly trophy. A number of disturbing images and clips have emerged from the violent conflict, with Azerbaijani and …
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“We, Germans, stand by our Austrian friends in sympathy and solidarity,” Merkel said in a statement on Tuesday. She expressed her condolences to families of the victims and wished survivors a swift recovery. Merkel said her thoughts were with the common people and security forces, who are confronting the terrorist …
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In the run up to the US presidential elections, different forms of populist resistance are gradually forming a unified field: “Armed militia groups are forging alliances in the final stages of the US presidential election with conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers who claim the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, intensifying concerns …
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