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Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan

Shaun Tandon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 25 06:54 AM

"No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome," Pompeo wrote. Read more »

Pompeo among key Trump officials sanctioned by Beijing for ‘disrupting China-US relations’

Owen Churchill in United States, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 21 12:31 PM

Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien is also targeted. Beside mainland China, they will not be permitted entry to Hong Kong or Macau. Read more »

How Mike Pompeo’s ‘genocide’ label for China over Xinjiang may set tone for Joe Biden

Sarah Zheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 21 02:24 AM

The outgoing US government’s assessment that China has committed “genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang was among the last acts of the Donald Trump administration that observers said could cement its legacy on Beijing and reduce Joe Biden’s ability to change course. Read more »

Biden to keep Jerusalem embassy but seek Palestinian state, nominee says

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 20 08:48 AM

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden will not reverse Donald Trump's landmark recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital but will seek a state for the Palestinians, Antony Blinken, his nominee for secretary of state, said Tuesday. Read more »

US declares China's repression of Uighurs 'genocide'

Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 03:05 AM

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has determined that China has committed "genocide and crimes against humanity" in its repression of Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, delivering an embarrassing blow to Beijing a day before US President-elect Joe Biden is to take office. Read more »

Pompeo pushes new claim of China covering up COVID-19 origin

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 16 10:12 AM

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged Friday there were Covid-like illnesses among staff at a Chinese virology institute in autumn 2019, casting further blame on Beijing as health experts arrived in the country to probe the pandemic's origins. Read more »

US imposes sanctions on Chinese officials, oil giant over South China Sea 'coercion'

David Shepardson, Alexandra Alper and David Brunnstrom, Reuters
Posted at Jan 15 03:37 AM

Washington accuses Beijing of seeking to intimidate other Southeast Asian coastal states such as Vietnam and the Philippines that have competing claims there. Read more »

China rejects US top diplomat's challenge to its ‘near-Arctic nation’ claim

William Langley, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 07 03:43 AM

US secretary of state on Monday tweeted that Beijing’s declaration was a "communist fiction". Read more »

Top US diplomat calls EU-China investment deal 'weak'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 03:17 AM

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized an EU investment deal with China as "weak" in an interview released Tuesday, warning that it does not protect against risks from Beijing. Read more »

Trump says cyberattack 'under control,' plays down Russian role

Brian Knowlton, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 20 09:17 AM

President Donald Trump on Saturday downplayed a massive cyberattack on US government agencies, declaring it "under control" and undercutting the assessment by his own administration that Russia was to blame.   Read more »

NATO checking systems after US cyberattack

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 19 09:51 PM

Microsoft said Thursday its anti-virus software detected intrusions in dozens of networked systems, most of them in the United States. Read more »

Locsin, Pompeo hold talks on boosting PH-US alliance, upholding S. China Sea arbitral ruling

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 19 04:39 PM

The United States and the Philippines have recently discussed possibilities to improve the two nations’ alliance, including ways to uphold the 2016 arbitral win invalidating China’s claim to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, the US State Department has said.  Read more »

Hackers' broad attack sets cyber experts worldwide scrambling to defend networks

Jack Stubbs, Reuters
Posted at Dec 19 02:14 PM

Suspected Russian hackers who broke into US government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a US internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source. Read more »

China blasts 'crazy' US sanctions over Hong Kong

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 09 05:23 AM

BEIJING - China on Tuesday blasted new US sanctions against officials involved in the clampdown on Hong Kong, calling the move "crazy and vile", a further worsening of relations between the world's superpowers. Read more »

Pope Francis, for first time, says China's Uighurs are 'persecuted'

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Nov 24 05:42 AM

VATICAN CITY - In a new book, Pope Francis for the first time calls China's Muslim Uighurs a "persecuted" people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years.   Read more »

U.S. security adviser O'Brien en route to Vietnam, Philippines

Reuters
Posted at Nov 19 06:46 AM

WASHINGTON - White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien is on his way to Vietnam and the Philippines, countries that share U.S. concern over China's increasingly assertive behavior and extensive maritime claims in Asia, the White House said on Wednesday. Read more »

Some Hong Kong clergy confuse Catholicism with anti-communism

South China Morning Post
Updated as of Nov 16 07:00 AM

In recent months, retired Hong Kong bishop Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had sought but failed to meet Pope Francis in Rome. The two anti-communist firebrands were turned away for a good reason. Read more »

Biden tells world leaders 'America is back' but Pompeo digs in

Shaun Tandon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 11 06:44 AM

The leaders of close US allies on Tuesday telephoned President-elect Joe Biden and pledged to work together but in an extraordinary break, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo insisted that Donald Trump would remain in power.   Read more »

China-US rivalry becomes Aliens vs Predator as Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka hits Pompeo

Laura Zhou in Beijing, South China Morning Post
Posted at Oct 29 01:31 PM

The embassy issues spiky retort after the US Secretary of State accuses the Chinese Communist Party of being a predator during a visit to Colombo. China is one of Sri Lanka’s largest trading partners and its largest foreign investor. Read more »

Vaccines, not spy planes: US misfires in Southeast Asia

Tom Allard, Reuters
Posted at Oct 28 03:25 AM

JAKARTA - For months, by Zoom calls and then by jet, Indonesian ministers and officials scoured the world for access to a vaccine for the coronavirus that Southeast Asia's biggest country is struggling to control. This month, their campaign paid off. Read more »