By Bob Pepalis | Feb 28, 2023
The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs heard from leaders with the State and Commerce Departments and international development agencies on how they are “Combatting the Generational Challenge of CCP Aggression” during a hearing on Feb. 28.
By Bob Pepalis | Jan 11, 2023
Military, aerospace and other defense experts participating in a discussion of a new report from the Center for Strategic & International Studies, “The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan,” said Taiwan and its allies need to make invasion too costly for China to sustain.
By Bob Pepalis | Dec 22, 2022
Foreign policy experts said the United States was the wild card in U.S.-Taiwan-People’s Republic of China relations during a Center for Strategic and International Studies discussion on Dec. 8.
By Bob Pepalis | Dec 19, 2022
The notion of guardrails for the U.S.-China relationship needs to go beyond keeping the nations from spiraling down into a kinetic conflict, to having more channels of communication, according to some foreign policy experts.
By Bob Pepalis | Dec 16, 2022
Protesters may have influenced China’s leaders to re-examine its zero-COVID policy but rising doubt in China’s ability to remain a viable production center for the global Supply chain also likely affected the loosening of restrictions.
By Bob Pepalis | Dec 15, 2022
U.S. policies toward China on academic collaboration that focus on intellectual property theft could impact U.S.-China competitiveness, researchers said in a Center for Strategic and International Studies Big Data China event.
By Bob Pepalis | Dec 12, 2022
Persecution of human rights defenders and lawyers has escalated since Xi Jinping came to power in China, a senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch told State Newswire.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 23, 2022
An author and senior Transatlantic fellow with the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) considers the speed with which the West came to a very different consensus on China quite remarkable.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 9, 2022
Experts on the U.S.-China relationship agreed that a Republican-controlled Congress could make it more difficult for the Biden administration to exercise its approach to China, but they didn’t expect to see policy changes.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 8, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her husband, Paul Pelosi, was released from the hospital following the violent assault against him Oct. 28.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 8, 2022
A regional airport in the Sunshine State has received nearly $2 million to upgrade its stormwater drainage systems and the local economy in the process.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 7, 2022
A Pennsylvania framing contractor has been given multiple citations and fined nearly $270,000 for repeatedly endangering employees working at unsafe construction sites.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 7, 2022
The public has until Dec. 4 to comment on a proposed strategy to safeguard North Atlantic right whales and their habitat from the impacts of offshore wind-energy production.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 6, 2022
State Department spokesperson Ned Price reported officials from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow met with Brittney Griner following her rejected appeal in a Russian court last week.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 6, 2022
Federal inspectors proposed almost $2.8 million in additional penalties against Dollar General after issuing citations for federal safety violations at stores in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 6, 2022
After visiting many building trade events where she saw mostly men, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said it was exciting to see a “sea of women” at the NABTU Tradeswomen Build Nations 2022 Conference.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 5, 2022
Business and economic researchers agreed that data shows trade with China affected U.S. employment in a "Big Data China" event presented by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) last month.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 5, 2022
A Staten Island healthcare provider’s attempt to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from seeking damages for a COVID-19 whistleblower was rejected by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 4, 2022
The keel-laying ceremony for Discoverer, a brand-new oceanographic research vessel being built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was held in Houma, La., by NOAA, the U.S. Navy and Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors.
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 4, 2022
Caregivers working for an Idaho home care organization were awarded $88,185 in back pay and liquidated damages after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
