US designates academic Min Zin as wrongfully detained in China
The US State Department said on Thursday that it had determined after a detailed investigation that Min Zin , an American political analyst of Chinese descent detained by Beijing last month, was being improperly held.
That formal designation shifts the case from a State Department consular issue to one handled by its presidential office dealing with hostage affairs.
Thursday’s terse statement, which said the decision was made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, adds another irritant to the fraught bilateral relationship just weeks before Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump
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Trump wants to be friends with Kim - but South Korea could pay the price
The two Koreas are technically still at war since they did not sign a peace treaty after the Korean War. Reuniting with the South had always been a key, if increasingly unrealistic, part of the North's ideology until Kim abandoned it in 2024.
Despite this, the threats against the South haven't stopped. Days before the military exercise, North Korea launched ballistic missiles towards Japan and repeated a warning that it had the right to exercise its nuclear weapons should the country be threatened. More missiles