Hong Kong

Taiwan is the ‘most important issue’ in U.S.–China relations, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said during talks with Trump last week.

OFAC has sanctioned at least 95 Hong Kong entities since 2020 for helping with Iranian oil trades and sanctions evasion.

Manila reports a 41-ship Chinese swarm at a critical gas field, testing U.S. defense treaties and threatening regional energy independence.

Lai, 78, was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year under the Beijing-imposed national security law and a colonial-era law.

Chong Wai-man, 61, was jailed for his Facebook posts criticizing the Chinese communist regime and its forced organ harvesting.

A subsidiary of Hong Kong-based company CK Hutchison said ‘extreme executive measures’ were used by Panama to expel it from two ports at each end of the canal.

Local authorities can also ’take and keep any personal devices, as evidence, that they claim are linked to national security offenses,' U.S. officials said.

The sentence is ’the latest act of the Chinese government reaching across borders to silence dissent, wherever it appears,' Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said.

Sebastien Lai said that his 78-year-old father should be released immediately.

The defendants were among a group of opposition figures in a case called ‘Hong Kong 47.’

A white paper issued right after the ruling could suffocate the daily lives of residents, observers said.

Kwok Yin-sang is the first relative of a pro-democracy campaigner wanted by the Hong Kong government to be charged under the city’s 2024 security law.

The Home Office said the sentencing ‘shows how the Beijing-imposed National Security Law has criminalised dissent, prompting many to leave the territory.’

‘For the 78-year-old, this is tantamount to a life sentence,’ UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said.

The 78-year-old Lai, who has been held behind bars for more than 1,800 days, could spend the rest of his life in prison under the CCP-imposed security law.

The deployment is filling Washington’s strategic void in the First Island Chain, one expert says.

The court ruling is a setback for Beijing’s regional strategy.