The educators from Cornell College, a private liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa, were wounded "in a serious incident" on Monday, while participating in a partnership program with Beihua University in Jilin, according to CNN.
According to the Taiwan authorities, after travelling in his little boat across the 160 km Taiwan Strait, which divides the island nation from China, the guy was taken into custody by Taiwan's coast guard.
S Jaishankar, who has been reappointed as External Affairs Minister for the second term, chaired a meeting with senior officials and Minister of State Pabitra Margherita and Kirti Vardhan Singh on Tuesday.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, on Tuesday, expressed concern over the stabbing of US citizens in China, saying that their team is in touch with the Americans and Chinese counterparts to ensure appropriate law enforcement steps are being taken.
"I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities," Adm. Samuel Paparo, the commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, told The Washington Post at the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Shangri-La Dialogue Summit.
According to the statement, seven of the PLA aircraft crossed the median line, breaching Taiwan's northern and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ).
Four American instructors from Iowa College who were on a visit to their partner university in China, sustained injuries after being attacked in a stabbing incident in a public park on Monday.
Jaishankar, a prominent BJP figure who navigated India's diplomatic strategies during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term, reassumed his responsibilities as External Affairs Minister at the Ministry of External Affairs located in South Block on Tuesday.
As the world's largest maritime law enforcement agency, the CCG has more than 150 regional and oceangoing vessels displacing at least 1,000 tons. It also has approximately 50 vessels in the 500-1,000-ton class, and around 300 smaller coastal patrol boats.
Regarding India's stance on China, Jaishankar reiterated that the priority remains to finding a solution to the longstanding border issues. "Our focus with regard to China will be on finding a solution for the border issues," he affirmed, signaling India's commitment to resolving territor