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Tensions escalate as the United States administration issued new visa rules to restrict travel by members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their families in the country. The new policy statement issued on Dec. 3, 2020, limits the maximum duration of B1/B2 non-immigrant business and tourist visas to one month, down from 10 years. ...
U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross have indicated that Washington has no deadline for a trade deal with China, with the president saying that it could wait until after the 2020 election. In London, ahead of a meeting with NATO leaders, Trump told reporters on Dec. 3: “I have no ...
In a 40-minute speech delivered on Oct. 24, Vice President Mike Pence criticized the communist Chinese authorities for continued violations of human rights and pernicious trade practices, while stressing America’s support for democracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Speaking at the Wilson Center in Washington, the vice president expressed regret that the Chinese Communist Party’s ...
October 24, 1871, is the date of Los Angeles’s mass lynching, one of its greatest unsolved murders. During a cool fall night, a violent lynch mob of around 500 people entered Chinatown to attack, rob, and murder at least 18 Chinese men and boys. The events of that night made it the largest mass lynching in American history. ...