In 2021, a Chinese company bought land near an Air Force base in Grand Fork, N.D., sending lawmakers into a frenzy. Lawmakers feared that China, which many policymakers view as a strategic adversary even though it’s the country’s top trading partner outside North America, could gain control over the U.S. food and energy supply, as […]
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Biden calls Xi ‘A Dictator’ fueling Chinese anger
President Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator” on Tuesday, sparking an angry reaction from Beijing in a sudden flare-up after talks between the two superpowers aimed at easing their geopolitical animosity. Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in California, Biden suggested that Xi was embarrassed because he did not know about the alleged Chinese […]
Blinken arrives in China for high stakes talks
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing at the start of two days of talks with Chinese officials. The visit is the first by an American diplomat to China in almost five years. US officials say the main goal of the talks is to stabilise a relationship […]
Will the US ever send men back to the moon?
The United States has not landed a man on the moon since 1972, but that hiatus looks likely to end in the coming years. NASA’s Artemis program looks to surpass the heights achieved with the Apollo missions to the lunar surface in the 1960s and 1970s. Artemis I, an unmanned test mission to the moon, […]
How much money does it take to be ‘Rich’ in US?
Americans have a specific number in mind about how much it takes to be perceived as wealthy, and it’s a sizable chunk of change: an average of $2.2 million in assets. That may seem like a pie-in-the-sky number, especially given that the median net worth of the typical family stood at about $122,000 in 2019, […]
US will be putting billions into high speed rail
Six decades after Japan debuted its shinkansen bullet trains, high-speed railconnects major cities in Europe, South Korea, Taiwan and especially China, which has a sprawling 26,000-mile system. Other regions are embracing it as well: trains race across Morocco, the Saudi Arabian desert and a high-speed line spanning Indonesia’s Java island opens in June. The one […]
US inflation accelerated in April
A key index of U.S. prices ticked higher in April, and consumer spending rebounded, a sign that inflationary pressures in the economy remain high. The index, which the Federal Reserve closely monitors, showed that prices rose 0.4% from March to April, much higher than the 0.1% rise the previous month. Measured year over year, prices […]
US credit card debt to hit 1 Trillion this year
American credit card debt remains at record-breaking heights, according to fresh government data, as consumers turn to plastic amid stubbornly high prices on everyday items and housing. U.S. credit card debt was $986 billion in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest report on household debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of […]
Pentagon leak shows western forces are in Ukraine
The U.S. & UK are among a number of countries with military special forces operating inside Ukraine, according to one of dozens of documents leaked online. It confirms what has been the subject of quiet speculation for over a year. The leaked files, some marked “top secret”, paint a detailed picture of the war in […]
Chinese spy balloon gathered intel from sensitive military sites
The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official. China was able to control the balloon so it could make […]
The sad state of U.S. life expectancy
Just before Christmas, federal health officials confirmed life expectancy in America had dropped for a nearly unprecedented second year in a row – down to 76 years. While countries all over the world saw life expectancy rebound during the second year of the pandemic after the arrival of vaccines, the U.S. did not. Then, last […]
“Fentanyl is your problem” says Mexican president to U.S.
Mexico’s president said Thursday that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to fight drug addiction. His statement came during a visit […]