British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday condemned disparaging comments made by US President Donald Trump about outgoing premier Theresa May and Britain’s ambassador to Washington. “@realDonaldTrump friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country,” Hunt tweeted.
China demanded Tuesday that the United States “immediately cancel” a potential sale of $2.2 billion in arms to self-ruled Taiwan, including battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles, adding fuel to tensions between the two powers. It would be the first big-ticket US military sale to the democratically-governed island in decades, and ...