The Philippines lodged its “strongest protest” against Beijing on Monday and summoned a senior Chinese diplomat over a water cannon assault by the Chinese coast guard that injured Filipino navy crew members and heavily damaged their boat in the disputed South China Sea, officials said. Two Chinese coast guard ships hit a Philippine navy-operated supply boat with water cannons Saturday …
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The Chinese coast guard fired a water cannon at a Philippine supply boat during a confrontation in the disputed South China Sea on Saturday, Philippine officials said. Video released by the Philippine military shows two Chinese coast guard ships approaching the lone wooden vessel, the Unaizah May 4, near the Second Thomas Shoal, when they fired the water cannon at …
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U.S. Senators are demanding the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information on TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, citing “significant risks” to U.S. national security. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, shared a letter on X Friday that he co-wrote with Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, urging Director Avril Haines to declassify a report about TikTok “in order to better inform the American …
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The Department of Defense confirmed that balloon debris that was recovered off of the coast of Alaska last month appeared to have been in the ocean for “well over a year.” Sue Gough, a Department of Defense spokesperson, confirmed to Fox News Digital that an initial inspection of the balloon “indicated” that it had been “in the ocean for well …
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Republican lawmakers are introducing legislation to prohibit the Department of Defense from using a Chinese-owned tutoring service for U.S. military members and their families. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are seeking to ban the use of Tutor.com because they say parent-company Primavera is subject to Chinese law requiring the organization to disclose confidential business and customer …
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The U.S. military will not be involved in the development of a port in the Philippines’ remote northernmost islands near Taiwan, the local governor said on Friday, removing a potential source of friction with China over the U.S. presence in the region. The governor of the Batanes islands, less than 125 miles from Taiwan, said in August she had sought …
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Chinese coast guard ships backed by a military helicopter attempted unsuccessfully to block two Philippine government vessels carrying scientists from reaching two sandbars in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine officials said Friday. Chinese coast guard personnel blew the horn on one of their ships for half an hour and repeatedly transmitted radio warnings during the confrontation Thursday, but the …
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A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, “The Three-Body Problem.” Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020 because of a dispute over the running …
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Tibet is luring investors from elsewhere in China with a promise to let their children take university entrance exams there in return for an investment of at least $400,000, an unusual move to exploit what is considered an easier scoring system. With a population that is 90% ethnic Tibetan, the region has one of China’s lowest college entry barriers, a …
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A small Michigan town is fighting back after being sued by a multi-billion-dollar Chinese energy company over residents’ opposition to its electric vehicle (EV) battery project in the community. “We were elected to protect the people in our township,” Green Charter Township Supervisor Jason Kruse told “Fox & Friends First,” Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed by Gotion Inc. – whose parent …
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