The defendants allegedly laundered proceeds from cocaine and fentanyl trafficking, prosecutors said.
The clampdown hits a route that Chinese investors use to trade U.S. and Hong Kong stocks, raising capital-control and other concerns.
The CCP intends to use the UN meeting as a platform to criticize the United States and use the visit to put a wedge in U.S.–Canada relations, analysts said.
Taiwan’s coast guard also reported separate incidents involving a Chinese coast guard ship near Pratas and 41 research vessels near Taiwan.
The defendant owns a China-based chemical company and promoted Shenzhen, China, as a ‘source city for his drug supply,’ prosecutors say.
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao says the Trump administration is delaying the major Taiwan arms package to prioritize weapons for the Iran conflict.
The G7 sees China’s export of overcapacity and its economic model as a systemic challenge to Western industrial security and the global order, an analyst says.
The FCC is facing mounting pressure to scrutinize foreign ownership risks in Paramount’s planned Warner Bros. Discovery takeover.
Lai delivered the address amid Beijing’s pressure, uncertainty over U.S. arms sales, and a narrowed defense-spending package.
Cotton from Xinjiang, where Uyghur labor is exploited, has been identified in the clothing of many Labubu dolls sold in the U.S., advocacy groups say.
Trump said Xi was ‘100% correct’ on U.S. decline, but argued the Chinese leader was describing the country Biden left behind, not the one Trump now leads.
Russia’s president left Beijing without reaching a deal on the proposed major gas pipeline project that ships natural gas from Russia to China.
‘Communist China is our enemy and we need to wake up and start acting like it,’ Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says.
Until the talks are confirmed, Taiwan will ‘keep a low profile,’ Taiwan National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu said.
Beijing agreed to a major Boeing order and steps to ease farm trade barriers.
No U.S. president has had a direct call with a Taiwanese president since Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979.
Foreign investors trimmed U.S. Treasury exposure during a volatile month for global markets.
The U.S. met coal producer reported a $18.3 million loss as weak global steel prices weigh on demand and margins.
Federal prosecutors allege the scheme intensified amid supply chain strains during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boeing aircraft, beef licenses, and new bilateral trade boards led the wins, but issues over technology, tariffs, and Taiwan remained largely unaddressed.