Chinese officials decried the lack of “fairness” in the US last week following the swift passage of a House bill that called for Chinese company ByteDance to divest its popular social media app TikTok. A foreign ministry spokesperson for China accused the US of using national security as a guise to “willfully suppress other countries’
Overseas investment has also declined as tensions between China and the West have risen. Beijing’s relationship with Washington has hit its lowest point since diplomatic relations between the US and China were first established in the late 1970s, with tensions rising over a range of issues ranging from Chinese military activity around Taiwan to a
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds a press conference after the Senate passed a continuing resolution to avoid a shutdown of the federal government, in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2023. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Senators on Sunday voted to move forward with a $95 billion aid package to fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan,