The bill authorizes $15.5 billion for the U.S. Pacific Deterrence Initiative to counter China and $300 million in military assistance to Taiwan.

The investigation will last up to 12 months and could pave the way for further tariffs under the incoming Trump administration.

Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners sought and received access to then-vice president Joe Biden’s political power, according to a GOP impeachment report.

U.S. President Joe Biden granted clemency to three Chinese citizens in November 2024 as part of a prisoner swap with China, contrary to social media posts suggesting it was a unilateral decision to free people who committed serious crimes.

In his first visit to China in the post, Iwaya unmistakably tried to make his tentative hosts feel assured of the Shigeru Ishiba government's readiness to reboot the dormant Sino-Japanese relations that had frosted over due to the previous Fumio Kishida government's one-sided pro-US policy.

The commutations were separate from the over 1,000 people whose sentences the U.S. president commuted on Dec. 12, 2024.

The Biden administration announced on Monday a last-minute trade investigation into older Chinese-made "legacy" semiconductors that could heap more U.S. tariffs on chips from China that power everyday goods from autos to washing machines to telecoms gear.

China has repeatedly warned that the four red lines on bilateral relations, namely the Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, China's path and system, and China's development right, must not be challenged. Yet the hostile content related to China in the US defense bill suggests Washington has no intention of honoring these red lines.

As he leaves the White House, President Joe Biden isn’t forgetting Christmas gifts to China. This week he announced new Paris Agreement targets to reduce greenhouse gases and he issued a waiver to California to attempt to do away with the American internal combustion engine.

The Chinese government is protesting the latest American announcements of military sales and assistance to Taiwan, warning the United States that it is “playing with fire.”

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tapped Cobly as the new undersecretary of defense policy on Dec. 22. [JOSEPH LEE]   U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday tapped former Treasury official Stephen Miran,

President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China's growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion despite his objections to language stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children in military families.