A leading cybersecurity scientist in the Chinese military, Guo Shize, has been removed from the website of the country’s top national research institute. Guo, 57, a researcher at the Information Technology Security Research Centre of the People’s Liberation Army, was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2023. It is not known when his page was removed from the academy’s website, but Chinese media reports noted the change on Monday. Neither the academy nor Beijing’s defence ministry...

On November 22, 2021, President Xi Jinping and the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) jointly announced the establishment of a China-Asean Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, marking a new milestone in the history of this important relationship. Guided by the vision of a closer community with a shared future and with sustained efforts to build a peaceful, secure, prosperous, beautiful and amicable region as our common home, China and Asean have jointly nurtured one of...

China’s embassy in Santo Domingo accused the United States on Monday evening of “sinister intentions” and mocked Washington for “congratulating” the Dominican Republic on closing a Chinese-run cardboard factory. The rebuke came hours after Juan Pablo Segura, who leads the US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, praised Dominican authorities on social media for “taking decisive action to shut down a massive, illegal, Chinese-operated cardboard factory”. Operating without...

The 82-year-old estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, cut an electronic monitoring device off his ankle, just days after his arrest for keeping child sexual abuse material in storage units in California, authorities said on Tuesday. He was arrested shortly after he cut off the ankle bracelet at 1.45am, First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said. US Magistrate Judge Lindsay Saxe Griffin on Tuesday ordered Markle returned to federal detention without bond at a hearing in Tampa,...

US House Republicans on Tuesday elected the congressman Jim Jordan as their new leader, turning to an outspoken conservative to steer the party after a crushing midterm defeat that handed Democrats control of the chamber. Jordan, 62, defeated outgoing House Majority Leader Steve Scalise in a contest that pitted calls for a fresh start against arguments for retaining experienced leadership. The vote was 106 to 73 at a closed-door party meeting, according to multiple media reports citing people...

⁠A senior US ⁠Army soldier was arrested in ⁠Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence, British police said on Tuesday, after the US removed aircraft from British military bases over a separate apparent threat from Iran. FBI Director Kash Patel ‌said the arrest of the 41-year-old man related to “allegations of espionage, which is of the utmost concern to the United States and our allies”. Brigadier General Sean Stinchon, the commanding general of US Army Counterintelligence Command,...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday that he would stress the importance of “non-interference in our affairs by China” when he meets President Xi Jinping later this month. A 2025 public inquiry into allegations of election meddling identified China as “the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canada’s democratic institutions”. Carney confirmed he would meet Xi at the November 18-19 Apec summit and would discuss “many things”, including efforts to broaden...