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The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Tuesday announced it has opened an investigation into Chinese e-commerce titan Temu for allegedly violating Nigeria’s data protection laws.

Neil Bush, son of former President George H.W. Bush and chairman of the Bush China Foundation, advocated for expanded cooperation with China during an appearance at the U.S.-China Hong Kong Forum, an event organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), which U.S. government agencies have identified as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign influence network.

T1 Energy CEO Daniel Barcelo highlighted the challenges facing the U.S. solar industry in competing with China, particularly in areas like polysilicon, while expressing confidence that America can be cost-competitive by strengthening domestic manufacturing.

American Chemistry CEO Chris Jahn spoke at a Breitbart News policy event, outlining China’s lead in global chemistry and plastics production and pointing to regulatory and trade policies he sees as key to future U.S. investment.

A U.S. Department of State employee was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for conspiring to transmit classified national defense information to individuals he believed were working for the Chinese government.

President Donald Trump raised concerns Monday about ongoing political upheaval in South Korea, describing the situation as resembling a “purge or revolution” hours before his scheduled meeting with the country’s new president at the White House.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has nominated Sergio Gor, currently serving as White House Director of Presidential Personnel, to become the next U.S. ambassador to India and special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued vague statements on Monday that it was “closely following the situation in Syria” and expressed hope for “stability” in the aftermath of the collapse of the regime of Beijing ally Bashar Assad.

Chinese author Liu Cixin’s monumental science fiction book The Three Body Problem, which has now been adapted into a Netflix series under the punchier title “3 Body Problem,” has a little something to annoy just about everyone – from climate change activists to skeptics, Chinese Communists to anti-communists, nationalists to open-borders fanatics. It is a big story with big ideas, and like most great works of fiction, not even the author can fully control how its events are interpreted. 

An invasive species of hornet was spotted near Savannah, Georgia, and officials are worried about the damage the insects might cause.

A report published by the Business & Human Rights Resource Center (BHRRC) on Wednesday accused Chinese companies of more than a hundred human rights and environmental abuses at the mines where China produces much of the world’s supply of “green energy” minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, copper, and various rare earths.

Politicians of South Asian Heritage seem to be having a moment in the British Isles, holding some of the most powerful political offices.

President Joe Biden came under attack Sunday for his weakness in dealing with an aggressive China as Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) lamented the administration’s efforts to appease Beijing.

President Joe Biden is “highly compromised” by the Chinese government, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) who argued that that must be the case given the scrapping of the United States Justice Department’s effort to combat Chinese economic espionage.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced record-high selling prices for crude oil to Asian buyers. The remarkably high increase of 50 cents per barrel was still lower than some forecasts, which anticipated up to $1.50 per barrel.

During Monday’s “Fox & Friends First,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) called on President Joe Biden to “stop blaming everybody but himself” for the record-high inflation in the United States.

Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday to advise Taiwan on how it could “stand strong as China seeks to impose its control over a free people, by force if necessary.”

Two employees with the U.S. Secret Service have been sent home from South Korea and will be disciplined for an alleged intoxicated dispute involving a cab driver ahead of President Joe Biden’s arrival in the country, reports say.

President Joe Biden has yet to comment at press time on the specifics of a mass shooting in California this weekend that law enforcement officials said was motivated by hate against the country of Taiwan as he prepares to leave Thursday for a trip to Asia.

A study in the journal Nature claims that so-called climate change may cause animal to human virus transmission.

Joe Biden and other Green New Deal advocates continue to push for electric vehicles but without the necessary domestic supply of batteries. For now, the United States is dependent on the Chinese Communist Party for the necessary critical minerals and other elements needed to build them.

The British government has reportedly approved the sale of the UK’s largest microchip factory to a firm tied to the Chinese Communist Party.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) slammed the Walt Disney Company on Tuesday for its threat to go after the Sunshine State’s new parental rights law, saying “if we would’ve put in the bill that you were not allowed to have curriculum that discussed the oppression of the Uyghurs in China, Disney would have endorsed that in a second — and that’s the hypocrisy of this.”

Russia has said that it is looking to Asia as a potential market for oil as Germany commits itself to wean itself off of Moscow’s supply.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) staffers based at the organization’s Western Pacific headquarters in Manila recently accused the region’s W.H.O. chief, Takeshi Kasai, of blaming a rise in coronavirus cases in some Asian countries on their populations’ “lack of capacity due to their inferior culture, race and socioeconomic level,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

China is determined to match its aggressive military talk in South-East Asia with spending. A report by the Lowy Institute in Australia shows in 2021 it achieved just that as other reports indicate Beijing is looking to establish its first permanent military presence on the Atlantic Ocean in the tiny Central African country of Equatorial Guinea.

The Biden family was set to benefit from a deal to transfer American natural gas to Chinese energy company CEFC, through a prospective 2017 deal by Hunter and Jim Biden, according to newly uncovered documents.

The coronavirus pandemic triggered a partial collapse of Asia’s tourism sector last year, eliminating 1.6 million jobs across five Asian countries, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported Thursday.

A federal jury convicted a Chinese spy of attempted trade secret theft and attempted economic espionage, the U.S. Justice Department stated.

The Bahrain Health Ministry announced Tuesday it will begin administering doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine “Coronavac,” by the firm Sinovac Biotech, to children aged three to 11 years old this week.

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and its crackdown on women’s freedom has reached clinics where midwives are helping bring babies into the world.

Several suppliers of Apple and Tesla have been forced to suspend production at Chinese factories in recent days to comply with strict energy rationing mandated by local governments in response to a nationwide power crisis, Reuters reported Monday.

President Joe Biden signed off on redeploying 1,000 troops to Afghanistan on Saturday night, restoring a total of 5,000 troops this week after vowing to fully withdraw militarily from the country by August 31.

Colombia and Panama agreed to limit the flow of U.S.-bound migrants from various continents transiting through their territory to 650 per day.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) urged the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Thursday to forcefully advocate for the shutdown of live animal meat markets in the interest of public health, particularly in light of ongoing concerns that they may have played a role in the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The majority of migrants encountered U.S. agents along the border this year hailed from outside the three Northern Triangle countries.