The Washington Post - Estados Unidos

The U.S.-Taiwan security relationship has been purposely ambiguous for four decades. But amid increasing Chinese threats of invasion, America’s commitment to Taiwan needs to be clearer, the island’s de facto ambassador to the United States said this week.

The Trump administration has banned the import of certain apparel and computer parts from China, saying they are made by forced laborers from the Xinjiang region.

In Rome, ­China's top diplomat was pressed on the question of autonomy and freedoms in Hong Kong. In Paris, he was asked about Beijing's treatment of the Muslim-minority Uighurs. In Berlin, he was chastised by the German foreign minister for making threatening remarks toward European officials.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo carried his campaign against the Chinese Communist Party to Eastern Europe on Thursday, proclaiming that “the tide is turning” against the government in Beijing and its efforts to control information.

As President Trump accelerates his pressure campaign on China ahead of the U.S. presidential election, his administration has begun to hit Beijing more directly in a manner that the president had long been reluctant to pursue — over human rights abuses.

20:58 - The move is the latest sign of the administration’s increasingly strident stance on China and its tech companies.

President Trump’s foreign policy is littered with inexplicable concessions and free passes to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Hackers linked to a Russian intelligence service are trying to steal information from researchers working to produce coronavirus vaccines in the United States, Britain and Canada, security officials in those countries said Thursday.

In many parts of the world, authorities and experts are fretting over the onset of a coronavirus second wave. Yet in the Americas, there’s still no end in sight to the first. The virus is surging in various U.S. states, and the American death toll has eclipsed 120,000. On Thursday, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the real number of infected Americans is probably 10 times the 2.3 million official count.