Tag: China

After hard first quarter, shipping industry showing signs of recovering from coronavirus

Sean Higgins · March 4, 2020 8:33 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

Energy and Environment

Coronavirus outbreak causes record drop in world oil demand: Report

Josh Siegel · March 4, 2020 1:52 pm

FILE - In this video grab file photo provided by RU-RTR Russian television via AP television on Thursday, March 1, 2018, a computer simulation shows the Avangard hypersonic vehicle being released from booster rockets. Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted about his country's prospective nuclear weapons, saying they are years and even decades ahead of foreign designs.

National Security

How Russia got hypersonic missiles before the US

Abraham Mahshie · March 3, 2020 11:22 pm

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to demonstrate that Republicans have their own agenda to address climate change, but that the party disagrees with the aggressive path being charted by President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress.

Energy and Environment

House Republicans call on Trump to promote fossil fuel exports to curb climate change

Josh Siegel · March 3, 2020 11:15 pm

Commuters wearing masks stand in a packed train at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo, Monday, March 2, 2020.

World Bank to release $12B in coronavirus support package

Spencer Neale · March 3, 2020 9:25 pm

No plans to lower China tariffs over coronavirus outbreak, Mnuchin says

Sean Higgins · March 3, 2020 6:19 pm

Beltway Confidential

At AIPAC, Mike Pompeo misses an opportunity on China

Tom Rogan · March 3, 2020 3:28 pm

Beltway Confidential

In new USAF commanding general, it’s Brown, not black, that matters

Tom Rogan · March 2, 2020 9:57 pm

A Chinese investor reads a newspaper with the headlines of Chinese leader Xi Jinping gives achievement like on 20th anniversary of the former Portuguese colony's handover to Chinese rule, at a brokerage house in Beijing, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019.

New restrictions placed on Chinese journalists after country expelled US reporters

Zach Halaschak · March 2, 2020 8:09 pm

Beltway Confidential

China follows lead of Nazis and Stalin, uses Uighurs for servile labor

Tom Rogan · March 2, 2020 7:25 pm

Public views US as lead economic power over China for first time since 2000: Poll

Madison Dibble · March 2, 2020 3:32 pm

Post-protectionist India’s future is bright if it maintains pluralism and democracy

Dan Hannan · March 2, 2020 5:00 am