The US State Department, additionally, approved the potential sale to Taiwan of about $265 million worth of command, control, communications, and computer modernization equipment.
China claims sovereignty over the Taiwan island and jurisdiction over the strait. But Taiwan and the US maintain the strait is an international waterway.
Many Chinese commentators predict that following the November US elections, the Quad may lose relevance and progress could stagnate, as it has yet to address substantive issues.
Biden administration puts in new curbs to counter low-value products mainly originating from China-founded e-commerce platforms. This comes 2 months ahead of US presidential elections.
The US State Department has taken action against one Pakistani & three Chinese entities, in addition to one Chinese individual, under the missile sanctions laws.
Despite raging wars in Europe and West Asia, multiple US govt agencies have made it clear that China’s rise in the Indo-Pacific poses the most significant challenge to America’s global primacy.
Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
The US sanctions against China are having little bite at this point. They’ve managed to circumvent them and are creating their own manufacturing processes.
And by the way the United States is distantly the world’s second-largest rare earths producer, with an output of about one-fifth the volume of China. There is no way the US can substitute the supply of rare earths they’ve been importing from China anytime soon. It would take at least 10 years to set up a functional domestic supply chain.
The US sanctions against China are having little bite at this point. They’ve managed to circumvent them and are creating their own manufacturing processes.
And by the way the United States is distantly the world’s second-largest rare earths producer, with an output of about one-fifth the volume of China. There is no way the US can substitute the supply of rare earths they’ve been importing from China anytime soon. It would take at least 10 years to set up a functional domestic supply chain.