Ukraine
Unexpected: Ukraine condemns Chinese regime’s crimes
On the international political chessboard the players are moving, and now Ukraine is marking its own game by condemning the Chinese regime for its crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Ukraine along with 49 Western countries signed on October 31, a petition denouncing the Chinese ...
Biden met two senior Ukrainian officials before concluding trip to Poland
On Saturday, March 26, U.S. President Joe Biden met two senior Ukrainian officials on his trip to Poland, according to Reuters. This was the first face-to-face meeting since the Russia-Ukraine conflict started. During the meeting in Warsaw, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and President Biden, the ...
Hunter Biden laptop controversy ‘goes straight to the president’ says author Peter Schweizer
Money laundering allegations have been publicly linked to Joe Biden's administration, a political writer said. Peter Schweizer believes the president should also be implicated during investigations into whether his son, Hunter Biden, concealed the origins of illegally obtained foreign funds. The author of "Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win" ...
Russia-China tech alliance poses great threat, even more if Ukraine falls down— analyst says
A recent opinion piece in the British "Daily Telegraph" warned that if Russia controls more of Ukraine's territory, it would have more natural resources available at hand to strengthen cooperation with China, and the bilateral industrial and technological alliances would be a greater threat. Andrew Orlowski, the author of the article, ...
29% of China’s corn imports come from Ukraine, prices may rise
The Russian-Ukraine conflict is widely expected to disrupt supply chains, and imports in China would be affected. Chinese media are warning of a temporary rise in corn prices, which would sequentially lead to a chain of other costs increase. State-media CCTV Finance reported from customs data that in 2021, 29.07% of ...
Chinese regime interested in Ukraine’s defense-industrial complex
Since Ukraine rejected China's bid to acquire a majority stake in Ukrainian aviation company Motor Sich and imposed sanctions on Chinese individuals and entities involved in the transaction, Beijing has reportedly used covert tactics to acquire Ukrainian military technology. In one of his blogs for the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), ...
VP Harris has conflicting views on whether US-Russia sanctions will deter Putin
Joe Biden's administration struggled to state if economically isolating the world's largest country would help prevent war in Eastern Europe. U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris recently shared conflicting views on whether U.S.-Russia sanctions could discourage Vladimir Putin from ordering a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. Harris previously claimed the Russian president has already ...
China-Russia ‘partnership’: Mutual mistrust rather than goodwill, Taiwan expert says
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. The two sides issued a joint statement, expressing mutual support on key issues. However, experts pointed out that China and Russia have conflicting interests in many aspects, and the alliance is only a practical measure, which is essentially a ...
White House says Biden not interested in unilaterally sending troops to Ukraine
White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki said that President Joe Biden does not intend to unilaterally send U.S. service members to Ukraine to counter Russia amid a potential conflict between Moscow and Kyiv. "Just to be clear, there is no intention or interest or desire by the president to send troops to ...
US threatens to control exports against Russian industries if Ukraine invaded
The Biden administration has threatened to use export control measures to damage Russia’s key industries if Moscow invades Ukraine. The administration is eyeing the foreign direct product rule to control exports to Russia of all microelectronics designed with U.S. software or technology or produced using U.S. equipment, The Hill reported, citing ...
Biden phones reporter to defuse anger, resentment over heated remarks
Joe Biden extended an olive branch to a member of the press for any suffering he may have caused on Jan. 24. The president phoned White House correspondent Peter Doocy to "clear the air" and defuse an angry or tense situation. Biden extended friendship, played down his earlier criticism as "nothing personal," ...
Biden may send 3,000-5,000 troops to counter Russia
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the possibility of deploying thousands of U.S. troops to Eastern Europe to counter Russia amid the recent tensions in the region, Fox News reported. In a briefing at Camp David on Sunday, Jan. 23, Biden's advisors presented him with various options if Russian troops move ...
American Embassy staff flee Ukraine due to potential Russian invasion
Some U.S. representatives to Ukraine evacuated amid escalating military tension with Russia on Jan. 23. The State Department confirmed it ordered non-essential American Embassy employees and their family members to leave the Eastern European nation due to a potential Russian invasion. All Americans in Ukraine are urged to evaluate whether they ...
US discusses with Qatar about supplying gas to Europe if Russia invades Ukraine
The Biden administration has been talking with Qatar about the possibility of supplying liquefied natural (LNG) gas to Europe if Russia invades Ukraine, triggering shortages of energy in the continent. Bloomberg citing two people familiar with the matter, revealed on Friday, Jan. 21, that President Biden plans to ask the Persian ...
US says Russia is preparing a ‘false flag’ to justify an invasion of Ukraine
The Pentagon claims it has credible intelligence that the Russian government is preparing a false flag operation to justify its invasion of Ukraine as it did in 2014 when it annexed the territory of Crimea. "We have information that indicates Russia has already pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct a ...
Russian hackers could attack U.S. critical infrastructure area, security agencies warn
The Infrastructure Security and Cybersecurity Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Security Agency on Tuesday, Jan. 11, issued a joint statement to critical infrastructure organizations, warning of a cyber threat from apparently Russian state-sponsored hackers, according to the complaint. In what could translate into a new diplomatic conflict ...
Putin says he does not want war, accuses the West of warmongering and assures that Ukraine was always Russian
The Russian president gave a year-end conference and spoke about the conflict with Ukraine, assuring that Russia does not want to go to war, that it is the West that stirs up the idea, and that the territory of Ukraine was "historically" Russian and only with the fall of the ...
Russian threat: Ukraine presses NATO to intervene
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to prepare a series of economic sanctions against Russia to deter a possible invasion by tens of thousands of Russian troops massed on the edge of its border. The relationship between Ukraine and Russia is at its most critical ...
‘Russia would have to pay a high price’: NATO, US and UK warn Putin over Ukraine
On Tuesday, Nov. 30, NATO foreign ministers from the UK and the US Secretary of State met in Riga, Latvia, to discuss the growing tension between Russia and Ukraine and issued a stern warning to Putin over the alleged advance of his troops on the Ukrainian border. According to The Hill, ...
Blinken expresses concern that Russia will try to invade Ukraine again as it did in 2014
In an official meeting with the Ukrainian foreign minister this Wednesday, November 10, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken expressed concern that Russia will again invade Ukraine as it did in 2014 when it invaded Crimea and annexed it into Russian territory. "Our concern is that Russia may make a serious ...
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