A Pentagon official says boosting Chinese Taipei’s military is an “urgent task” and crucial to deterring what the United States perceives as the threat of invasion by China. “Without question, bolstering Taiwan’s self-defenses is an urgent task and an essential feature of deterrence,” Ely Ratner, the US assistant secretary of ...
US President Joe Biden has warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that the West would impose “strong economic and other measures” on Russia if it invaded Ukraine, while the Russian leader has demanded guarantees that NATO would not expand farther eastward. The verbal exchanges were made in a video call ...
