China

From the US to Asia to Africa, China is increasingly becoming a campaign issue around the world. In West Virginia, GOP candidate Don Blankenship, a former coal baron and ex-con, is trying to win votes by hitting out against Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, accusing him of giving jobs to “China people.” Senate hopeful Blankenship, whose primary is on Tuesday, also questioned McConnell’s “personal connections” to China. His wife is the Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, a Chinese American. Half a world away in Malaysia, opposition candidate Mahathir Mohamad, 92, has accused incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak of selling out the country to China, by allowing too much Chinese inve

China’s foreign minister has headed to Pyongyang as Beijing tries to reassert itself as part of ongoing peace talks between North and South Korea. For decades, China has been Pyongyang’s main ally and its bridge to the outside world, but it appears to be losing influence to the US, amid a thaw in relations between the North and South. Last Friday, Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in committed to eliminating nuclear weapons and formally ending the seven-decade Korean War. Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday in the first such visit since 2007, which also comes ahead of a planned summit between Kim and Donald Trump within the next two months. “The Chinese