Cardinal of Hong Kong, Joseph Zen, previously arrested under the law on national security imposed by Beijing, was authorized to leave the city to attend the funeral of Pope Francis in an apparent demonstration of Clemence for the retirement bishop known to be a vocal critic of the interference of China in religious affairs.Zen, 93, left for the Vatican city on Wednesday evening after a court granted the temporary return of his passport, which was confiscated after his arrest in 2022 to have allegedly collutial with foreign forces and endangering national security, two sources on Radio Free Asia said.Cardinal Zen,…
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Politicususa is a journalism that strives to be a lighthouse of democratic values. You can support us by becoming a subscriber.Given Trump’s contempt for the judicial branch of the United States government, it is not surprising that his administration took the authoritarian measure of the arrest of the judges for having allegedly hampered immigration measures.Representative Jamie Raskin explained in a statement why Trump’s actions are not as usual:The Americans look with the indignation of the superb news that Trump’s FBI arrested a judge in office in Milwaukee for alleged obstruction of an arrest in the field of immigration. Although not…
North Korean women’s football has experienced an unprecedented year of success and the government has recently authorized the external information media to rare access to its training program, a decision intended to strengthen its international profile.In 2024, its national female teams surprised the world football community by winning female World Cups for FIFA and under 20. The North Korean leader Kim Jong a meeting The Women’s Football team under 20 years of the country Kim Jong A meeting The North Korea Women’s Women’s Football team, which won the World Cup in Colombia at the headquarters of the Pyongyang workers’ party…
Updated on April 25, 2025, 07.11 am heBANGKOK – US President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to accelerate the development of the mine industry in the deep sea, including in international waters governed by a United Nations Treaty that most nations are signators.An executive decree of Trump signed Thursday indicates that the United States must “counter the growing influence of China on mineral resources of the seabed” – namely the nodules of potato size which line vast seabed areas and contain rare and minerals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese.Like Trump’s pricing shock therapy, the policy of extraction of…
Read the RFA cover of this story in Burma.In almost three weeks since the Myanmar army declared a cease-fire to help the earthquake, it lost more than 400 bombs in the state of Rakhine, according to an insurgent army in the besieged west. The state is home to one of the largest and most powerful ethnic rebel groups in Myanmar, the Arakan army, or AA. He saw an escalation of conflicts in his 17 cantons since the Myanmar junta seized the power of the democratically elected government in the country in 2021. “Instead of honoring their own declaration, Junta Forces…
Taipei, Taiwan – China seems to quietly remove 125% reprisal prices on certain American imports, including semiconductors, according to the media, following the recent signals by President Donald Trump according to which high samples from Chinese products could be reduced.The United States this month has imposed 145% tariffs on Chinese imports, which prompted China to retaliate with prices reaching 125% on American products-a Tit-For-Tat trade battle that threatens to kill the world economy. The United States has also imposed new prices on most other countries.Chinese authorities have implemented pricing exemptions for eight types of American semiconductors, excluding memory fleas, CNN…
Read the RFA cover of this subject in Burma.Several eminent cardinals in Asia are considered by the faithful of the region as worthy candidates to direct the 1.4 billion Catholics of the world.Pope Francis, who led the Catholic church for 12 years, died on Monday at the age of 88. A papal conclave is expected to the Vatican in the next 15 to 20 days to elect his successor.Many countries have eminent candidates, including cardinals who oversee the dioceses in Asia – Sri Lanka, South Korea, the Philippines and the Civil War Riven Myanmar. An Asian pope would be a…
Read “Cross-Stré Shadows: inside the Chinese influence campaign against Taiwan” (Part I here and Part II here))Taipei, Taiwan – marketed as a cross collaboration, “Taiwan’s Voice” presents itself as a local comment platform. But behind the hosts and the familiar studio are a deeper link with the Chinese state media.In the past year, Asia Fact Check Lab has retraced how the content produced in Taiwan, but aligned with Chinese accounts, infiltrates the island’s media landscape through what it calls the “Fujian network”.With smooth production and recognizable faces, these shows blur the border between inner discourse and foreign influence – part…
The young boy who was kidnapped at the age of 6 was 36 on Friday.What he does, where he lives or even if he is still alive, is not known, thanks to the reluctance of the Chinese government, who kidnapped him with his family and his teacher 30 years ago.Beijing leaders, distrusting themselves with potential rivals for the authority of the Communist Party, considered the boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, as a possible threat.A few days earlier, the Dalai Lama had appointed him the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second highest spiritual leader of the largest sect of Tibetan…
Taipei, Taiwan – China and the Nations of Southeast Asia are “political” to establish legally binding rules for their South China Sea conduct next year, said the Foreign Affairs Secretary of the Philippines, despite two decades of non -conclusive discussions.A code of conduct aims to establish a framework to guarantee peace in the Southern China Sea where the vast territorial demands of Beijing overlap with the exclusive economic zones of certain countries of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Vietnam.”Everyone agreed that we would all like to have a code by 2026,” said Enrique Manalo at a maritime security forum…