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...In the wake of the election, Mike Johnson, the US Republican Speaker, said he would ask the Republican chairs of several congressional committees to visit Taiwan, saying it would underscore the US commitment...
...House Speaker Mike Johnson said after Taiwan’s election that he would ask the Republican chairs of several committees to travel to Taiwan....
...But Johnson has a dilemma. He will face pressure from defence hawks within his party, moderate members in swing districts, and Republican allies in the business community to put the bill up for a vote....
...Trump’s influence on the Republican party has extended to some lawmakers who are known to be national security hawks but are now hesitant about endorsing a large foreign security aid package....
...Very quickly, he established himself as the major internal block to Johnson’s high-spending instincts....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...“Ukraine will come in short order, it will come next,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday....
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Shortly after it was launched, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister at the time, gleefully lampooned the “raucous squawkus from the anti-Aukus caucus”....
...As a strong advocate of the UN’s goals on sustainable development while prime minister, Cameron has emphasised the importance of international aid after Boris Johnson, when prime minister, slashed aid funding...
...Lucy FisherAnd Robert, I mean, the hawks on the Tory benches want to see more sanctions....
...At the beginning of December, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson sided with him on procedural grounds....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Previous winners include Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain and Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...Top stories today Johnson: UK ‘vastly underestimated’ Covid-19 | Boris Johnson has admitted his government displayed “incoherence” in early 2020 and “underestimated” the scale of the infectiousness and...
...Johnson has already come under fire from rightwing, fiscal-hawk House Republicans, who have called the budget framework a “total failure”. But will he face the same fate as McCarthy?...
...His argument in favour of a diplomatic balancing act was dismissed by hardline hawks, such as Tory MP and former party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who is one of five MPs who were sanctioned by China in...
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...We had major assassinations, cities on fire, two failed presidencies [Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon].”...
...In April James Cleverly, UK foreign secretary, faced down China hawks in the governing Conservative party with a set-piece policy speech calling for a “robust and constructive” new bilateral relationship...
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
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