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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....
...In 2022, China refused to resume the talks as a protest move after then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan....
...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...
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said China’s economic situation raised incentives to work with the US to ease tensions....
...But Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, cautioned that it was too early to conclude that China had responded mildly, particularly with French president Emmanuel Macron and European...
...Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan next month to show support for Taipei as it comes under mounting pressure from China, in what would be the first trip by a Speaker of the US House of Representatives to...
...The PLA launched its biggest-ever exercises around the island in August after then Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei....
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said the 2027 timeline was “baked into US thinking”, particularly in the Pentagon and the intelligence community....
...President Joe Biden said the US would defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack, in a strong warning to Beijing one month after China held large-scale military exercises in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
...Ahead of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan this week, there was concern from the White House to Tokyo that the US House Speaker’s trip would spark a crisis at a time when relations with China were already in...
...In a speech in April she called for the countries to work together on a Marshall Plan for Ukraine, an echo of the US programme that funded the reconstruction of western Europe after the second world war....
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, agreed that the US and China were “perilously close” to a fourth Taiwan Strait crisis....
...“We hear Pakistan, we hear Bangladesh, we hear Marshall Islands, we hear all of these countries,” Markey said. “They are right. We have to do much more.”...
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said Beijing had signalled that it did not want relations to worsen....
...“If the bill passes in its current form, we’re really in for a major crisis,” said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund....
...Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of the House, criticised Republicans for endangering the funding measure....
...England Crossword 16,218: Richard Gibson, London; M Amey, Macclesfield; George Warburg, Connecticut Polymath 1,030: David Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy...
...These were Britain’s friends in the US, speaking at an event organised by the Association of Marshall Scholars, the programme that sends American students on courses at British universities....
...For Democrats, looking ahead to the November midterms, the lesson from Mr Lamb’s strong performance is simple, said Terry Madonna, a professor at Pennsylvania’s Franklin & Marshall college....
...After a spell working on the Marshall Plan, he taught at Yale, Harvard and finally the University of Maryland. Schelling married Corinne Saposs in 1947....
....” ——————————————– 5) Red Neighbor, Blue Neighbor, by Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker Rothman reviews Nancy Rosenblum’s timely new book, “Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America”, about...
...After a few months of practice, Marshall Wright found he became expert at coding with one hand and feeding his baby daughter Maggie a bottle of milk with the other. “We got into a good routine . . ....
...“Six months ago, no one thought that race would be competitive,” says Terry Madonna, director of the Keystone Poll at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania....
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