The bill authorizes $15.5 billion for the U.S. Pacific Deterrence Initiative to counter China and $300 million in military assistance to Taiwan.

The investigation will last up to 12 months and could pave the way for further tariffs under the incoming Trump administration.

Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners sought and received access to then-vice president Joe Biden’s political power, according to a GOP impeachment report.

U.S. President Joe Biden granted clemency to three Chinese citizens in November 2024 as part of a prisoner swap with China, contrary to social media posts suggesting it was a unilateral decision to free people who committed serious crimes.

In his first visit to China in the post, Iwaya unmistakably tried to make his tentative hosts feel assured of the Shigeru Ishiba government's readiness to reboot the dormant Sino-Japanese relations that had frosted over due to the previous Fumio Kishida government's one-sided pro-US policy.

The commutations were separate from the over 1,000 people whose sentences the U.S. president commuted on Dec. 12, 2024.

The Biden administration announced on Monday a last-minute trade investigation into older Chinese-made "legacy" semiconductors that could heap more U.S. tariffs on chips from China that power everyday goods from autos to washing machines to telecoms gear.

President Joe Biden on Dec. 12 announced a single-day record of 1,499 sentences commuted, along with 39 pardons of nonviolent offenders. Some critics later expressed outrage over what they said was the pardon of Chinese spies and a sex offender.

China has repeatedly warned that the four red lines on bilateral relations, namely the Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, China's path and system, and China's development right, must not be challenged. Yet the hostile content related to China in the US defense bill suggests Washington has no intention of honoring these red lines.

As he leaves the White House, President Joe Biden isn’t forgetting Christmas gifts to China. This week he announced new Paris Agreement targets to reduce greenhouse gases and he issued a waiver to California to attempt to do away with the American internal combustion engine.

The Chinese government is protesting the latest American announcements of military sales and assistance to Taiwan, warning the United States that it is “playing with fire.”

WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden on Friday (Dec 20) approved US$571.3 million in defence assistance for Taiwan, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the January inauguration of Donald Trump.