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New Delhi has allegedly delayed committing supplies of Covaxin, India’s first state-made Chinese coronavirus vaccine, to a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) vaccine drive after the W.H.O. on Monday said it refused to “cut corners” in granting the inoculation emergency use approval, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The battle for democracy in Hong Kong has gotten most of the free world’s attention over the past few years, but Voice of America News (VOA) noted on Monday that China is quietly but inexorably tightening its grip on Macau as well. 

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced over the weekend that General Min Aung Hlaing, leader of the military junta in Myanmar, will not be invited to the association’s October 26-28 summit. The unprecedented snub of Gen. Hlaing was welcomed by the Burmese opposition, which asked ASEAN to go even further and invite a representative from the civilian shadow government.

The navies of both China and Russia dispatched a joint group of 10 vessels to sail through Japan’s Tsugaru Strait — which links the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean — on Monday, Japan’s Defense Ministry said.

According to box-office data compiled by a Chinese-owned tracking service, the Number One movie worldwide this week is The Battle at Lake Changjin, a three-hour-long epic about Chinese forces defeating American troops in the Korean War that was partly funded by the Chinese Communist government.

Muslim mob attacks across Bangladesh have killed at least six people, including four Hindus, after sparking last Friday in response to an image posted to social media allegedly depicting the desecration of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, during a recent Hindu festival, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Tuesday.

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacted to China’s hypersonic missile test by stating China wants to be able to threaten the U.S. with “nuclear annihilation.” And China wants “to be able to strike and hold at

What some U.S. forces thought would be 96 hours on the ground in Afghanistan evacuating U.S. embassy staff turned into 16 days.

North Korea conducted its latest provocative missile test on Tuesday, sending two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. One of the missiles appears to have been launched offshore, possibly from a submarine.

Tuesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends First,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) sounded off on China secretly testing a nuclear-capable low-orbit hypersonic missile in August.

Activists on Tuesday called for the postponement of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as China prepared to receive the Olympic flame, a day after a protest disrupted the lighting ceremony in Olympia.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX) said China’s missile test is “kind of a Sputnik moment,” and that “the technology, in most part, came from the United

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated that China’s reported missile test is “a military game-changer when it comes to nuclear forces. We’ve allowed the Chinese to leapfrog us.” Graham also argued that

Makers of apps that allow users to read and listen to the Bible and Quran, including Amazon’s Audible, announced Friday they had removed such apps from China’s Apple Store citing Chinese government “permit requirements.”

On Monday’s broadcast of “Fox News Primetime,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said China’s test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile “is the culmination of multiple decades of the Chinese stealing their way to the top” and “the thing that’s most frustrating

On Monday’s broadcast of “Fox News Primetime,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said the nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that China tested is “the ultimate first attack weapon” because hypersonic missiles can evade U.S. defense systems, and “This is a Sputnik moment, and we

During an appearance on FBN’s “Kudlow,” former Vice President Mike Pence sounded off on the long-range implications the Biden administration’s ill-conceived withdrawal from Afghanistan could have for U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regards to China.

Diana Shaw, acting inspector general for the State Department, has launched a series of investigations into the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Following reports that China conducted a nuclear-capable low-orbit hypersonic missile test in August, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) warned that the U.S.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday denied reports that it stunned U.S. intelligence analysts by testing a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, while the Biden White House responded to the report by saying it “welcomes stiff competition” from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Tokyo cannot delay plans to release 1.25 million tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean starting in 2023 because such a setback would foil Japan’s goal of decommissioning Fukushima’s nuclear reactor, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said on Sunday.

A senior Thai health official said Monday that Thailand will discontinue use of China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine after the current supply of the medication is exhausted this week.

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will create a new app called “InJobs” for the Chinese market, after it became embroiled in controversy by censoring the account of an Axios reporter for a profile containing “prohibited content” in the country.

Monday on Fox News Channels “America Reports,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) warned China was flexing its muscle by secretly testing a nuclear-capable low-orbit hypersonic missile in August.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he believed President Joe Biden made a mistake with how he handled the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

The Financial Times reported on Saturday that U.S. intelligence agencies were caught by surprise when China secretly tested a nuclear-capable low-orbit hypersonic missile in August. The weapon circled the globe before descending upon its target, missing by about two dozen miles.

Greek police arrested two activists for protesting at the Acropolis in Athens against the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.

South Korean regulators are expected to take issue with Apple in the coming weeks following recently passed laws that state smartphone vendors must allow app developers to use third-party payment processors. Google has told the country it intends to comply with the law, but Apple is courting a fight over its stranglehold over developers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused a CNBC reporter of purposefully acting as if she did not hear his answer to her question regarding Russia’s supply of natural gas to Europe, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Thursday.

Boxer-turned-politician Manny Pacquiao, who recently retired from the ring to run for the Philippine presidency in 2022, said Thursday he would not allow his country to “be bullied” by Beijing in the South China Sea if elected president, ABS-CBN reported.