President Joe Biden’s administration said Wednesday it would prioritize winning over China, seeing it as the only global rival to the United States, even as it also works to constrain a “dangerous” Russia.
China is willing to shape the international order together with Russia in a “more just and rational direction”, a senior Chinese diplomat said as the two countries’ leaders prepare to meet this week.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who played a major role in ending the Cold War, died in Moscow on Tuesday aged 91.
An economics professor who saw himself more as a data-driven expert than an ideologue, Shultz had the rare distinction of serving in four different cabinet positions — including Treasury secretary as Richard Nixon dismantled the post-World War II Bretton Woods monetary system.
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum Monday against starting a “new Cold War” while he championed multilateralism.
China and Russia on Tuesday decried President Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy — which pilloried both nations as challengers to US power — as a “Cold War mentality” with an “imperialist character”.
Russia on Monday threatened US media operating in the country with new legal restrictions after Kremlin-controlled broadcaster RT complained of persecution by Washington.
ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio believes that President Rodrigo Duterte should end his anti-American rhetoric as he has done nothing to stop or oppose Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson from pressuring members of the ASEAN Regional Forum to exclude North Korea from diplomatic discussion.
The relations between Russia and the US have worsened, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Rodrigo Duterte may have backtracked on his controversial statement about cutting ties with the United States, but Communications Secretary Martin Andanar believes his boss was right in announcing a “separation” from Washington even if the relationship between the two countries will remain normal to a large extent.
