State Department

Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

House committees subpoena top Pompeo aides over IG firing

11:43 pm August 3, 2020

Washington: House Democrats have subpoenaed four top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying that the Trump administration is stonewalling their investigation into the firing of the State Department’s top independent watchdog earlier this year. Former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick appeared for a closed-door interview in the probe in June and told investigators that top department officials tried to bully him […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US names new Arctic envoy in push to expand reach in region

11:42 pm July 29, 2020

Washington: The Trump administration on Wednesday named a special envoy for the Arctic, filling a post that had been vacant for more than three years as the administration seeks a greater role in the region and tries to blunt growing Russian and Chinese influence there. The State Department’s appointment of veteran career diplomat Jim DeHart […]

Chinese are on march to prove their importance, are taking up vacuum that US created: Albright

US agents enter Chinese consulate compound in Houston; Beijing lodges protest

10:35 pm July 25, 2020

Houston: US federal agents and law enforcement officers have entered the Chinese consulate compound here along with locksmiths after the mission was shut down, amidst spiralling tensions between Washington and Beijing. The Trump administration ramped up its confrontation with China this week, ordering Beijing’s consulate in Houston to close over concerns about economic espionage. The Chinese consulate located in Houston’s busy Montrose Boulevard for 40 […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump’s ‘strong wall’ to block COVID-19 from China had holes

9:03 pm July 4, 2020

Washington DC: US President Donald Trump has repeatedly credited his February ban on travellers from mainland China as his signature move against the advance of the coronavirus pandemic — a “strong wall” that allowed only US citizens inside, he boasted in May. But Trump’s wall was more like a sieve. Exempted were thousands of residents of the Chinese territories […]

Diplomat says of Trump Ukraine call: ‘I remember it vividly’

10:52 am November 19, 2019

Washington: The phone call State Department official David Holmes overheard between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland lasted just two minutes. But it won’t be easily forgotten. I’ve never seen anything like this, Holmes told Trump impeachment investigators, someone calling the President from a mobile phone at a restaurant, and then having a conversation […]