The professor, exiled in the US since 1961, identifies for EL PAÍS a series of factors, among them the embargo, which influence the poor results of the Cuban economy
Pricing and the mix of beverages contributed 12% to revenue growth, while concentrate sales rose 2%, the company said
With little information to go on, senators in both parties demanded answers as they returned to Washington on Monday
The factory near the city of Marshall would produce batteries with a lithium-iron-phosphate chemistry
The three objects, including one shot down Sunday over Lake Huron, were traveling at such a low altitude as to pose a risk to civilian air traffic
The Chinese allegation comes after America shot down a suspected spy balloon that had crossed from Alaska to South Carolina, sparking a new crisis in bilateral relations
Authorities have shot down three different devices since Friday: the first was the size of a car, the second was cylindrical and the third octagonal
The Navy and Marine Corps are holding joint exercises at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon
The economic restrictions followed the Biden administration’s pledge to consider broader efforts to address China’s surveillance activities
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe declined to get on the line, the Pentagon says
The 419-0 action comes as lawmakers clamoring for information about the white balloon that flew over American skies were being briefed by U.S. officials in a classified session
A fleet of balloons operates under the direction of the People’s Liberation Army and is used specifically for spying, the U.S. said
The Chinese government has been targeting American industry and government agencies with spy operations, officials say
When similar devices passed over US territory during the Trump and Biden administrations, they were not immediately identified as Chinese surveillance balloons
The company declined to comment on why it was not available to stream on its streaming service
Lawmakers have raised a number of questions about whether the device was able to collect intelligence and transmit it back to China
In Congress and statehouses, the balloon’s journey added traction to decades-old concerns about foreign land ownership
The US president addressed Congress in an event marked by China, the Ukraine war, gun and police reform and calls for unity in defense of democracy
His speech before a politically divided Congress comes as the nation struggles to make sense of confounding cross-currents at home and abroad
The crisis sparked by the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon in US airspace is set to weigh heavily on the president’s most important speech of the year
Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint over the ‘US attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force’
Beijing responded that it reserved the right to ‘take further actions’ and criticized Washington for ‘an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice’
A Costa Rica newspaper reported that hundreds of people have seen the aircraft in the sky in recent hours
China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite US suspicion it was spying
The discovery has further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington
The third-richest man in the world’s net worth halved in a week after he was accused of market manipulation by a US firm specializing in ‘man-made disasters’
A senior defense official said it has ‘limited’ value in terms of providing China intelligence it couldn’t already collect by other means
