Tensions are running high in the Taiwan Strait, as Taipei detected dozens of Chinese warplanes and vessels around the island. A US maritime patrol plane transiting the strait drew condemnation from Beijing.
The Chinese government may have as many as six clandestine police stations in the United States, according to a human rights group, whose allegations came a day after U.S. law enforcement arrested two men in New York for allegedly running a station under the direction of an official in China.
China s Foreign Ministry on Thursday imposed sanctions on the anti-China U.S. lawmaker Michael McCaul, who has frequently interfered in China s internal affairs and sent wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" separatists.