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...After then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in 2022, the Chinese military conducted large-scale military exercises around the island and halted military exchanges with the US that were only restarted...
...Dover and ferry operator DFDS said the post-Brexit requirement to individually scan and stamp all passports for passengers entering the EU was creating capacity constraints at the port....
...Although such simulations have mainly been practised by government and defence officials, the consultancy has run contingency exercises for an increasing number of corporate clients....
...He told the gathering that the oil and gas industry “has the capacity and the resources to help everyone address scope 3 emissions”. The sector “needs to up its game, do more and do it faster”....
...It has also targeted Afghanistan’s Shia minority, Taliban officials and, in 2022, the Russian embassy in Kabul....
...The asylum claims will be processed by Italian officials while applicants are confined to the centres in Albania, and those whose claims are rejected will be held until they are repatriated to their home...
...allies and officials within his administration to press for a pause in the military operation in Gaza....
...officials” to inspect passports....
...“You just don’t have the same capacity.”...
...China opposes visits to Taiwan by US officials and trips to America by Taiwanese politicians, particularly when they are in an official capacity....
...Regional leaders have been complaining for months that they have reached the limit of their capacity to absorb the newcomers....
...“If Pelosi comes then when China reacts, we need to respond to that even though we are not the initiator,” Huang said, adding that he was speaking in his capacity as an expert in cross-Strait relations and...
...Speaker Nancy Pelosi....
...The US and China similarly each need to understand how the other thinks. It is positive, then, that Biden and Xi agreed to designate officials to keep talking....
...But some in Washington now fear that the visit could have the opposite effect — giving Beijing the chance to demonstrate its capacity for military coercion and leaving Taiwan even more exposed to the expanding...
...“There are questions about the ability of a military that hasn’t been in combat since 1979, and questions [about] their strategic lift capacity,” said Randy Schriver, who was assistant secretary of defence...
...Top Biden administration officials stepped in to mediate the talks, including Marty Walsh, the labour secretary, Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, and Brian Deese, director of the National Economic...
...officials....
...Western officials and defence analysts say they illustrate the “friendship without limits” that was pledged just before war broke out by presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping....
...Such events are often formulaic and choreographed. But they require intensive bilateral dialogue between officials to create a list of things to announce....
...A senior Japanese official said the US and Japan should demonstrate their determination to prevent Chinese aggression....
...In 2019, Trump administration officials leaned on TSMC to place some advanced capacity in the US, its largest market....
...As Kenza writes below, an official “task force” in the UK is sidelining such targets — focusing instead on the national net zero goal, and how companies can do their bit to help the country hit it....
...escalate over the planned visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi....
...China believes it has sovereignty over the island and has increased military activity nearby since US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited this month....
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