
Amid dramatically escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing, a delegation of five US legislators met with the top Chinese Taipei leadership on Friday, despite a “blunt message” from China to call off the trip. The bipartisan group of legislators from the US House of Representatives, who arrived in the self-governing ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the United States’ “contradictory behavior,” characterized by a purported desire to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and all the while expanding sanctions against Iran, is a major obstacle to the Vienna talks aimed at putting the accord back on track. In a telephone ...