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...Several people familiar with the situation said Biden last year sent Burns to Capitol Hill in an effort to persuade then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to travel to Taiwan....
...The call is the latest effort to stabilise ties since Xi, the president of China, agreed in San Francisco to resume military engagements that China halted after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited...
...The US official said the White House expected defence secretary Lloyd Austin would hold his first interaction with Dong Jun, China’s new defence minister, in the coming months....
...Dong’s appointment paves the way for a possible meeting with Austin this year....
...China had cut off military dialogue following then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last August....
...Her early work reads like a punchy, lyrical combination of the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende mixed with the doughty British outlandishness of, say, Rose Macaulay or Nancy Mitford...
...meeting suggests the US and China are making some progress towards improving relations between their militaries after Beijing closed formal communication channels in August 2022 after then-House Speaker Nancy...
...The senior official said the US raised the importance of re-establishing the military-to-military channels that China shut down after then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year....
...China closed several military-to-military channels last year after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan....
...“Taiwan continues to raise the need to procure capabilities to deter a kinetic attack as well as address grey zone and blockade scenarios, highlighted post then-speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s trip last August,...
...Austin emphasised “the need to responsibly manage competition and maintain open lines of communication” in his meeting with Wei, according to the Pentagon....
...In a final display of pique, Wei Fenghe, China’s defence minister, refused to answer calls from Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. Next, the cognitive dissonance....
...The White House did not respond to a question about who in the military — defence secretary Lloyd Austin or General Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs — held that view....
...“There is definitely a lot of uncertainty right now in the United States,” says Nancy McLernon, head of the Global Business Alliance, a trade association representing the largest foreign multinationals in...
...“It’s been a long, long 10 years,” says Austin Wang, the chief executive of the centre, over Zoom a week before the official opening....
...US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”...
...And then there’s Ted, a smooth, suited-and-booted neo-fascist (“I’m exceptional”), who spies in the manor a talismanic headquarters for his jingoistic outfit and in Diana (Nancy Carroll) a woman desperate...
...Overall, home prices have skyrocketed across the country as Americans have scooped up homes in suburban areas and smaller cities such as Austin and Phoenix....
...Anti-Trump Republicans slam party for trivialising Capitol attack After months of wrangling between Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy the hearings into the January 6 assault by a pro-Trump mob on the US Capitol...
...The Senate earlier on Friday voted to confirm Lloyd Austin as Mr Biden’s defence secretary, making him the first black American to hold the top job at the Pentagon....
...But in the FT’s 2021 list of the fastest growing companies in the Americas, Austin, Texas, is punching above its weight....
...Yet political analysts in Washington said that Democrats — including Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker — would try to aggressively plough ahead with their plans under unified control of Congress, which the...
...The vexed question of “likeability”, with its air of euphemism, has dogged Hillary Clinton and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic majority leader, will probably now have the distinction of becoming America’s second as well as its first female Speaker....
...In Austin, a more direct rival to Raleigh, median incomes for a household of three fell to just over $74,000 from just under $78,000 in 1999....
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