Previously, they could be paid 17th percentile. Under the rule issued and effective last week, H-1B workers in jobs at the lowest of four skills levels must receive the 45th percentile of the wages for their job type and location. But in recent years, as Chinese President Xi Jinping has doubled down on those policies in a hard-line approach, the consensus has shifted.Critics of the controversial H-1B foreign-worker program are applauding a new Trump Administration rule significantly boosting required pay, but a Bay Area member of Congress says the change is an unworkable mess and won’t survive legal challenge. foreign policy held that if the West traded and engaged with China, it would gradually open up its political system and curb its rogue behavior, from extravagant maritime claims to trade protectionism to widespread intellectual property theft. government accused China of trying to use hackers to steal vaccine technology.įor decades, conventional wisdom in U.S. A Chinese official in turn blamed the U.S.
accused China of initially having covered up the outbreak, with Trump and other officials advancing a theory that the virus may have come from a Chinese lab. Anthony Wallace / AFP - Getty ImagesĪll that came after a monthslong war of words about the coronavirus, in which the U.S. Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray issued a stark warning calling Chinese espionage " the greatest long-term threat to our nation's information and intellectual property and to our economic vitality." Supporters and activists hold a minute of silence for the late Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo, pictured top left, before attending West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong on Monday. measures against senior Chinese officials alleged to be responsible for mass detentions, religious persecution and forced sterilization of Muslim Uighur minorities in China's Xinjiang province. It was the first such mission since Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared China's claims to much of the disputed areas in the South China Sea " completely unlawful" on Monday and accused Beijing of "a campaign of bullying."Ĭhina slapped sanctions Monday on certain U.S. Navy also announced Tuesday that it had conducted one of its periodic "freedom of navigation" operations near the contested Spratly Islands, sending a guided missile destroyer into waters China claims as its own. Then, President Donald Trump signed legislation and an executive order to punish China over its actions in Hong Kong, the semiautonomous former British colony where Beijing has implemented a draconian new security law in violation of international agreements. President Donald Trump at a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on Tuesday. First, the British government reversed its decision and announced that equipment made by the Chinese tech giant Huawei would be banned from the country's 5G networks, a blow to one of China's leading companies. But it was among the more dramatic recent illustrations of how U.S.-China relations have veered into what some experts are calling a new version of the Cold War.Īnother inflection point came Tuesday. It's unclear how close the American and Chinese warships got to one another.
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