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China and US playing a ‘dangerous game of chicken’, says China expert
Earlier we spoke to the Chinese American journalist Kaiser Quo and we began by asking him what we should read into what the Chinese Foreign Minister has been saying?
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China warns of potential conflict with US amid diplomatic tensions
China’s foreign minister has warned of potential conflict with the United States – declaring that a policy of “all out containment and suppression” was a “zero sum game”. In his first press conference since taking on the job, Qin Gang said China’s close ties with Russia were a model for global foreign relations. It follows…
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Covid most likely came from a Chinese lab leak, says Director of FBI
The head of America’s FBI has said he believes that the Coronavirus pandemic most likely originated in a Chinese lab. Christopher Wray said agency assessments had long suggested that “a potential lab incident” in Wuhan was behind the outbreak.
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Ohio residents fear impacts of toxic train crash
The repercussions of a massive toxic chemical spill in a small town in Ohio – after a freight train carrying carcinogenic waste veered off the tracks and caught fire three weeks ago – continue to reverberate across the US.
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Toxic Train: did Ohio chemical crash lead to illnesses?
Their town was shrouded in clouds of black fumes after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed – but when residents of East Palestine in Ohio tried to meet representatives of the train company last night demanding answers, the company didn’t show up.
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‘60% chance of military confrontation between China and US in next decade,’ says former China strategist for US Air Force
We speak to Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro, currently a Professor at Stanford University, but previously a senior China Strategist for the US Air Force.
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‘All major countries spy on each other,’ says professor at Chinese think tank
A diplomatic spat is deepening between China and the US as they accuse one another of sending up spy balloons into each other’s airspace.
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Nikki Haley enters presidential race against Donald Trump
The former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, was once a close ally of Donald Trump.
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Spy balloons ‘part of China’s hybrid communication architecture’, says aerospace security expert
We spoke to Gregory Falco, an aerospace security expert at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who also advises the US Homeland Security Department.
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US on high alert after military shoots down another UFO
A fortnight ago the world barely knew anything about high altitude spy balloons.
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Mystery object shot down by US jets – but not a spy balloon
US fighter jets have shot down an unidentified object in the skies over Alaska, although authorities say they don’t believe it was a spy balloon. The object, which was the size of a car, and reportedly described by one official as silver coloured and cylindrical, was first spotted on Thursday, flying at around the same…
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US navy collects debris after shooting down Chinese ‘spy’ balloon
The United States has insisted that the high altitude Chinese balloon which it shot down last night over the Atlantic was being used for surveillance. President Biden described the mission as a success while the US Navy and Coast guards are now searching the area for debris. China has lodged a formal protest, accusing…
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‘China up to all sorts of things’, says former UK national security advisor
We were joined by Lord Ricketts – a senior British diplomat who served as the UK’s national security adviser.
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China US diplomatic crisis deepens as second Chinese balloon discovered
Not one but two Chinese spy balloons have now been spotted – the first is now flying over the US state of North Carolina – and President Biden says the US will “take care of it”. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has confirmed that another one has been seen over Latin America. There’s been an apology from…
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US-China spy balloon row: Little can be done to improve relations, says expert
We spoke to Dr Oriana Mastro, Foreign and Defense Policy Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, and began by asking her why China would use a spy balloon.