Wired News: May 2019

Friday, 31 May 2019

In swipe at China, U.S. defense chief warns of Asia instability

U.S. tariff threat backs Mexican president into corner, facing Trump

UK's Chagos Islands descendants feel like 'lost nation'

Venezuela crisis: What happened to uprising against Maduro?

Sayyida Salme: The tragic life of Zanzibar's rebel princess

MacKenzie Bezos: Novelist and Amazon shareholder

Tiananmen 30 years on - China's great act of 'forgettance'

Saudi king says attacks by Iran-backed groups threaten global oil

FOX NEWS: ASOS crop, tube tops for men ridiculed on social media: ‘I'm done’

Deaths of indigenous women was 'a Canadian genocide', leaked report says

via BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2QDIbGO

Ties with China beneficial, its envoy tells new El Salvador leader

El Salvador's decision to establish ties with China was correct and the two countries have bright prospects, a Chinese envoy told El Salvador's maverick new president, who has been critical of Beijing.

from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2QEeIwD

Huawei is too close to Chinese government: U.S. defense chief

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Saturday that technology firm Huawei was too close to the Chinese government, adding that Washington was concerned about cyber attacks and the theft of intellectual property.

from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2W4N255

U.S. defense chief says China threatens Asia's stability

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan suggested on Saturday that China was responsible for a range of destabilizing activities in Asia, stirring already heightened tensions between the world's two largest economies.

from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2I9kSRp

North Korea's Kim visits factories linked to missile launches

The factories have innocuous names, but analysts say several ostensibly civilian facilities visited by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently are also used to build ballistic missile launchers and other weapons.

from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2QEa55J

In swipe at China, U.S. defense chief warns of Asia instability

from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Xh1tUV

U.S. tariff threat backs Mexican president into corner, facing Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to slap punitive tariffs on all Mexican trade if Mexico does not stop illegal immigration has punched a gaping hole in his Mexican counterpart's hands-off approach to diplomacy, with potentially ruinous consequences.