https://www.scmp.com/rss/517806/feed The latest news on Nikki Haley, American politician and diplomat and former Governor of South Carolina, including political news and updates. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters Reuters When a gunman murdered 35 people in Tasmania in 1996, Australia’s political leaders united to implement some of the West’s toughest gun laws. Nearly three decades later, after 15 people were killed at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach, consensus is more elusive. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s call for tighter gun controls is meeting resistance from ascendant right-wing populists and some mainstream conservatives, revealing a more polarised landscape that contrasts with Australia’s response to... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3337147/australias-albanese-faces-fierce-battle-over-gun-laws-after-bondi-beach-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3337147/australias-albanese-faces-fierce-battle-over-gun-laws-after-bondi-beach-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 01:10:21 +0000 Nikki Haley, a former rival to Donald Trump for the US Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that isolationism was not healthy and that the Republican Party should stand with the country’s allies, especially in the face of China. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Taiwan, Haley – Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations who then ran against him – said it was important to support Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel. “I don’t think the isolationist approach is healthy. I think America... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3275751/taiwan-former-trump-rival-nikki-haley-urges-support-us-allies-spurns-isolationism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3275751/taiwan-former-trump-rival-nikki-haley-urges-support-us-allies-spurns-isolationism?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Aug 2024 04:59:48 +0000 Donald Trump will march to the threshold of a third Republican presidential nomination this week as millions of Americans vote in “Super Tuesday” – a critical milestone in his party’s lopsided 2024 race for the White House. Normally the most consequential part of the campaign before the election itself, Super Tuesday decides Republican and Democratic primaries in the giant states of California and Texas, as well as more than a dozen other battlegrounds. But the usual drama will largely be absent... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3254066/super-tuesday-2024-donald-trump-puts-joe-biden-cross-hairs-nikki-haley-trails-far-behind?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3254066/super-tuesday-2024-donald-trump-puts-joe-biden-cross-hairs-nikki-haley-trails-far-behind?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Mar 2024 06:29:24 +0000 Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia Sunday, giving her the first victory in the nominating contests of 2024 and slowing Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination. Haley won the district 63 per cent to 33 per cent, according to the Associated Press. In winning the 19 delegates from the nation’s capital, Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nations nearly doubled her voting strength at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. But her 43... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3254036/nikki-haley-gets-first-primary-win-washington-dc-super-tuesday-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3254036/nikki-haley-gets-first-primary-win-washington-dc-super-tuesday-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:12:00 +0000 Is it political strategy, donor pressure or perhaps hubris? Nikki Haley is vowing “the fight goes on” against Donald Trump, positioning herself as a viable option for the Republican presidential nomination in case the scandal-plagued front-runner’s campaign implodes. Haley has gone zero for four in early contests, including an embarrassing 20-point defeat Saturday in her home state of South Carolina where she served as governor. With her path to victory shrinking to the width of a needle’s eye,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3253210/us-presidential-election-2024-nikki-haley-soldiers-despite-growing-inevitability-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3253210/us-presidential-election-2024-nikki-haley-soldiers-despite-growing-inevitability-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Feb 2024 06:53:30 +0000 Donald Trump easily defeated Nikki Haley in South Carolina’s Republican contest on Saturday, extending his winning streak as he marches towards a third consecutive presidential nomination and a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. The former United States president had been widely favoured to win the Southern state, despite his litany of criminal charges and Haley’s status as a native of South Carolina who won two terms as governor. The big win bolstered calls from Trump’s allies that... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3253113/donald-trump-wins-south-carolina-swamping-nikki-haley-her-home-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3253113/donald-trump-wins-south-carolina-swamping-nikki-haley-her-home-state?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Feb 2024 02:15:19 +0000 Nikki Haley is Donald Trump’s only opponent left in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Despite Trump being the favourite to win the Republican race, Haley is forging ahead and refusing to give up. She’s taken aim at him on multiple occasions, including in her recent appearance on TV show Saturday Night Live, where she appeared in a spoof as herself. The former governor of South Carolina and Trump’s US ambassador to the United Nations has a strong family backing her, too. Here... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3252976/who-nikki-haleys-support-squad-family-donald-trumps-only-opponent-left-republican-presidential?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3252976/who-nikki-haleys-support-squad-family-donald-trumps-only-opponent-left-republican-presidential?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Feb 2024 11:00:11 +0000 Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the Republican presidential race against Donald Trump regardless of the outcome of Saturday’s South Carolina primary, saying she would not buckle to pressure from the former president and his allies. “I feel no need to kiss the ring. And I have no fear of Trump’s retribution. I’m not looking for anything from him. My own political future is of zero concern,” Haley said Tuesday at a rally in Greenville, South Carolina in an event billed by her campaign as a major... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252657/nikki-haley-vows-stay-2024-race-calls-donald-trump-unstable-and-unhinged?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252657/nikki-haley-vows-stay-2024-race-calls-donald-trump-unstable-and-unhinged?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Feb 2024 05:02:32 +0000 Donald Trump’s last remaining Republican rival for the US election in November bashed the ex-president on Sunday for his continued silence over the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his recent outburst over Nato. “The fact that he won’t acknowledge anything with Navalny - either he sides with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and thinks it’s cool that Putin killed one of his political opponents, or he just doesn’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Nikki Haley said on ABC’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252360/trump-rival-nikki-haley-bashes-ex-president-continued-silence-navalny-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252360/trump-rival-nikki-haley-bashes-ex-president-continued-silence-navalny-death?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:59:32 +0000 US presidential hopeful Nikki Haley on Friday warned that Donald Trump was aiming to “get control” of the Republican National Committee, adding that she did not want to see him use the committee as a “piggy bank” for his court fees. While speaking on CNN, Haley told anchor Kaitlan Collins she was concerned about Trump’s push for new leadership at the RNC after a court found the ex-US president liable for inflating his net worth and ordered him to pay nearly US$355 million. The interest on the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252307/nikki-haley-says-donald-trump-wants-use-rnc-piggy-bank-his-legal-battles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252307/nikki-haley-says-donald-trump-wants-use-rnc-piggy-bank-his-legal-battles?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:49:25 +0000 No one won the Republican Party primary in the US state of Nevada on Tuesday, with Nikki Haley defeated by “None of these candidates”, an embarrassment in a vote in which she was all but unopposed. The result has no tangible bearing on the race for the Republican nomination because it didn’t carry any delegates – the outcome of a row between state authorities and the Nevada Republican Party, which will hold a separate caucus this week. But it’s another black eye for Haley, who lost out to former... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3251244/no-one-wins-republican-nevada-primary-embarrassment-nikki-haley?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3251244/no-one-wins-republican-nevada-primary-embarrassment-nikki-haley?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:26:09 +0000 Hillary Clinton. Nancy Pelosi. Kamala Harris. Liz Cheney. Carly Fiorina. And for now, Nikki Haley. The former South Carolina governor is the latest in a long line of women – historically some of Republican Donald Trump’s most stubborn challengers – for whom the former president saves a special playbook. Trump’s nickname for Haley, a Republican who served as his own ambassador to the United Nations, is “Birdbrain”. “Who the hell was the impostor?” Trump railed after the New Hampshire primary... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3251108/how-donald-trump-deploys-his-oft-used-playbook-against-women-who-bother-him-now-its-nikki-haley?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3251108/how-donald-trump-deploys-his-oft-used-playbook-against-women-who-bother-him-now-its-nikki-haley?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:39:31 +0000 Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the Republican presidential primary race at least through Super Tuesday while chiding a tabled plan by the Republican National Committee that called for the party to coalesce around Donald Trump. Haley said she expects to perform better in her home state of South Carolina than in the Iowa Republican caucus and last week’s New Hampshire primary. “I think I need to do better than I did in New Hampshire,” she said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “So this is a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3250091/nikki-haley-suggests-she-will-stay-republican-race-after-south-carolina?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3250091/nikki-haley-suggests-she-will-stay-republican-race-after-south-carolina?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:10:27 +0000 Donald Trump won the key New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, moving him ever closer to locking in the Republican presidential nomination and securing an extraordinary White House rematch with Joe Biden. With around 90 per cent of votes counted, Trump’s winning margin hovered at about 11 percentage points, but his sole remaining challenger Nikki Haley vowed to fight on. In a rambling victory speech Trump, 77, attacked Haley and said that when the primary contest reaches her home state of South... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3249549/donald-trump-wins-new-hampshire-republican-primary-us-media?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3249549/donald-trump-wins-new-hampshire-republican-primary-us-media?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:18:18 +0000 As the last major challenger in Donald Trump’s way to the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley is hoping New Hampshire voters feel so strongly about keeping the former president away from the White House that they turn out to support her in large numbers. “America does not do coronations,” Haley said at a VFW hall in Franklin, joined by her daughter and son-in-law. “Let’s show all of the media class and the political class that we’ve got a different plan in mind, and let’s show the country what we... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3249403/america-does-not-do-coronations-haley-says-hoping-stop-trumps-march-new-hampshire-nomination?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3249403/america-does-not-do-coronations-haley-says-hoping-stop-trumps-march-new-hampshire-nomination?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:29:56 +0000 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley turned a spotlight on Donald Trump’s mental fitness on Saturday, after the former US president falsely accused her of failing to stop the violent assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump, speaking Friday at a campaign event days ahead of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary election, appeared to confuse Haley with then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi. Referring to the January 6 insurrection by a mob of his supporters, Trump, after saying... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3249213/nikki-haley-questions-donald-trumps-mental-fitness-after-he-appears-confuse-her-nancy-pelosi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3249213/nikki-haley-questions-donald-trumps-mental-fitness-after-he-appears-confuse-her-nancy-pelosi?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:54:23 +0000 Nikki Haley wooed voters in New Hampshire on Wednesday as the Republican presidential nomination contest moves to the eastern US state seen as make-or-break for her bid to reel in runaway front runner Donald Trump. Once considered an outside bet, the former UN ambassador – the only woman in the race – has emerged as the main threat to Trump’s dreams of a White House return. Her polling numbers, donations and endorsements have surged in recent weeks. But her long-nurtured hope of a one-on-one... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3248878/nikki-haley-eyes-new-hampshire-last-gasp-bid-catch-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3248878/nikki-haley-eyes-new-hampshire-last-gasp-bid-catch-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jan 2024 05:23:14 +0000 Donald Trump secured a resounding victory in the first 2024 Republican presidential contest in Iowa, asserting his command over the party despite facing scores of criminal charges as he seeks a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, 45, finished well behind in second place, edging out former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, 51, as they battle to emerge as the chief alternative to Trump. Trump, 77, won by an unprecedented margin for an Iowa Republican contest,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3248559/donald-trump-wins-iowa-republican-caucuses-us-media-projections?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3248559/donald-trump-wins-iowa-republican-caucuses-us-media-projections?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Jan 2024 01:58:52 +0000 Of the many attacks between this year’s US presidential candidates, some of the harshest have pitted Vivek Ramaswamy against Nikki Haley. Ramaswamy went so far as to hold up a sign at a debate calling the South Carolina former governor and UN ambassador corrupt over her corporate work – and she has hit back hard, calling him untrustworthy and berating him for mentioning her children. Personal attacks are routine in US politics, and both Haley and Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old entrepreneur who has... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3248519/nikki-haley-vivek-ramaswamy-indian-americans-navigate-identity-amid-rise-politics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3248519/nikki-haley-vivek-ramaswamy-indian-americans-navigate-identity-amid-rise-politics?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:00:16 +0000 Two Republicans jostling for a distant second place behind Donald Trump in their race to be party flag-bearer took potshots at the former US president on Thursday, days before the first vote in the White House nomination process. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and one-time UN ambassador Nikki Haley turned their fire on their party’s presumptive nominee just 11 days before Republican voters in Iowa make their choice. Neither candidate mentioned the other much during back-to-back “town hall” events... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3247383/nikki-haley-and-ron-desantis-turn-fire-donald-trump-republican-2024-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3247383/nikki-haley-and-ron-desantis-turn-fire-donald-trump-republican-2024-race?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:41:19 +0000 US presidential hopeful Nikki Haley faced a firestorm of criticism after failing to mention slavery as a cause of the American Civil War when asked what led to the conflict at a campaign event. Less than three weeks before voting begins in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, it was the first major stumble for a candidate whose campaign has seen her propelled from an unlikely outsider to front-runner Donald Trump’s biggest threat. The former United Nations ambassador told a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3246569/white-house-hopeful-nikki-haley-rebuked-over-civil-war-comments?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3246569/white-house-hopeful-nikki-haley-rebuked-over-civil-war-comments?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:46:36 +0000 The conservative US political network led by billionaire Charles Koch on Tuesday endorsed Nikki Haley for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, giving the former South Carolina governor a boost among party rivals struggling to make a dent against front runner Donald Trump. The influential group, which pushes for tax cuts and less government regulation, has made clear that beating former president Trump in the Republican nominating contest is a top priority, arguing that he would lose the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3243180/powerful-koch-group-endorses-nikki-haleys-2024-bid-beat-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3243180/powerful-koch-group-endorses-nikki-haleys-2024-bid-beat-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:50:46 +0000 In February, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley announced her White House bid, saying that it is “time for a new generation of leadership” in Washington DC. Her campaign has pushed for stronger border measures, lower taxes and anti-abortion policies. She is a Republican Party candidate along with former US president Donald Trump, former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. But it was Nikki’s daughter Rena who grabbed headlines after her mum rushed to her... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3241737/who-rena-haley-her-mum-nikki-haley-leapt-her-defence-third-republican-presidential-primary-debate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3241737/who-rena-haley-her-mum-nikki-haley-leapt-her-defence-third-republican-presidential-primary-debate?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:00:10 +0000 Nikki Haley, a former US ambassador to the UN who is now running for the Republican presidential nomination, vowed on Tuesday to bring about a “sea change” in US policy towards China and do “whatever it takes” to protect the American people – including a “full-on decoupling” if necessary. Speaking on the future of US-China policy at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank, Haley said responding to the threat of China was a central tenet of presidential... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3225639/us-presidential-candidate-nikki-haley-seeks-major-changes-china-policy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3225639/us-presidential-candidate-nikki-haley-seeks-major-changes-china-policy?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:49:18 +0000 Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday she is running for president, becoming the first high-profile candidate to challenge Donald Trump – her one-time boss – for the Republican nomination. Casting herself as a younger, fresher alternative to the 76-year-old Trump, Haley had been hinting at a possible run for weeks and teasing a “big announcement” on February 15. In the end, the 51-year-old declared her candidacy a day early, on Valentine’s Day. “I’m Nikki... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3210224/nikki-haley-launches-run-us-president-challenging-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3210224/nikki-haley-launches-run-us-president-challenging-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:31:49 +0000 Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley will kick off her campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination this month, squaring off against her one-time boss, Donald Trump, two sources familiar with her plans said on Wednesday. The move would make her just the second declared Republican candidate and could set the stage for a more combative phase of the campaign, potentially putting her in the sights of the pugnacious former US president. Haley’s campaign sent an email to supporters... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3208785/nikki-haley-take-donald-trump-her-one-time-boss-2024-white-house-bid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3208785/nikki-haley-take-donald-trump-her-one-time-boss-2024-white-house-bid?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:58:49 +0000 The United States has accused rival countries, including China, of manipulating and exploiting international organisations to advance their own interests at the cost of the US, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report by the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank, pointed at countries whose national interests went against the US, notably China and Russia. In the report titled “A Better Blueprint for International Organisations”, Nikki Haley, a US... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3139635/us-accuses-china-manipulating-and-exploiting-united-nations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3139635/us-accuses-china-manipulating-and-exploiting-united-nations?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:19:14 +0000 President Donald Trump’s former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, alleges in her upcoming memoir that two administration officials who were ultimately pushed out by Trump once tried to get her to join them in opposing some of his policies. In With All Due Respect, Haley said secretary of state at the time, Rex Tillerson, and then-White House chief of staff John Kelly told her that they were trying to “save the country”. Haley writes that she was “shocked” by the request, made during a closed-door... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3037194/new-book-donald-trumps-former-un-ambassador-nikki?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3037194/new-book-donald-trumps-former-un-ambassador-nikki?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:14:30 +0000 Former United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has set up an “advocacy” group which described China as the “biggest foreign threat to America”. Haley served as President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the UN from January 2017 until December, when she resigned. Donor-funded Stand for America, which opened for business on Monday, claimed to promote “public policies that strengthen America’s economy, culture, and national security”. Its website, echoing the Trump administration,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2187886/china-biggest-foreign-threat-america-says-action-group-set?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2187886/china-biggest-foreign-threat-america-says-action-group-set?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Feb 2019 06:32:55 +0000 Alex Lo’s My Take column of October 18 (“Nikki Haley is an odious hypocrite on rights”) is far removed from reality. US Ambassador Haley in fact is a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stuffy organisation that is the United Nations. For decades since its establishment in 1945, though with good intentions, the UN has done little to improve international relations, it has not prevented nor has it stopped one war. It does do some good in providing food relief to disaster areas. However, it has a... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2171384/nikki-haley-did-well-call-out-un-human-rights-hypocrisy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2171384/nikki-haley-did-well-call-out-un-human-rights-hypocrisy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:01:06 +0000 Outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley poked fun at President Donald Trump’s inflated ego and lack of self-awareness on Thursday night at the Al Smith Foundation annual dinner. Haley, who announced her conscious uncoupling from the Trump administration last week, was the keynote speaker at the high-profile charity fundraiser in honour of the former governor of New York. The former South Carolina governor, whose reasons for her split with the president still have not been fully... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2169445/outgoing-us-ambassador-un-nikki-haley-mocks-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2169445/outgoing-us-ambassador-un-nikki-haley-mocks-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:00:30 +0000 When Nikki Haley, the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, announced her resignation, The New York Times, as did many other mainstream American publications, described her as a “moderate” and her tenure at the UN as a success. That was a truly Orwellian moment in mainstream American media. Haley herself is, as she likes to accuse others, “straight out of George Orwell”. In 1984, the fearsome leader was called Big Brother; Haley could be Big Sister. Among many American and international... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2168994/nikki-haley-odious-hypocrite-rights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2168994/nikki-haley-odious-hypocrite-rights?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:41:24 +0000 Goldman Sachs partner Dina Powell is no longer under consideration to rejoin the Trump administration as US ambassador to the United Nations, replacing Nikki Haley when she leaves at the end of the year, a White House official said. Powell informed senior leaders at the bank on Thursday that she plans to stay, according to another person with knowledge of those talks. The people described the discussions on condition of anonymity. Watch: Nikki Haley resigns as US Ambassador to the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2168206/update-2-dina-powell-withdraws-consideration-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2168206/update-2-dina-powell-withdraws-consideration-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Oct 2018 23:48:01 +0000 Nikki Haley became the latest senior official to exit the Trump administration when she said on Tuesday she will resign at year-end as US ambassador to the United Nations. Here are some others who have been fired or quit the White House since Trump took office on January 20, 2017 2018 Don McGahn Trump said in late August that the White House counsel would step down after the Senate confirmed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, which happened on Saturday. The Trump-McGahn relationship was... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2167804/nikki-haley-quits-here-are-23-other-notable-firings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2167804/nikki-haley-quits-here-are-23-other-notable-firings?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Oct 2018 05:02:08 +0000 Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations whose toughened sanctions on North Korea helped push the country to discuss nuclear disarmament, is stepping down at the end of the year, it was announced on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump revealed Haley’s resignation at the Oval Office on Tuesday morning with Haley sitting next to him – a rare setting for such a high-profile administration departure. Praising Haley as “a fantastic person” who had done “an incredible job” at the UN,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2167728/us-ambassador-united-nations-nikki-haley-resigns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2167728/us-ambassador-united-nations-nikki-haley-resigns?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Oct 2018 14:30:00 +0000 The US envoy to the United Nations accused Russia of “actively working to undermine” international sanctions against North Korea as pressure rises on the Trump administration three months after the president met Kim Jong-un in Singapore. “Why after voting for sanctions 11 different times is Russia backing away from them? We know the answer. It’s because Russia has been cheating. And now they’ve been caught,” Ambassador Nikki Haley said Monday in an emergency session of the Security Council she... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2164605/russia-cheating-north-korea-sanctions-says-us-envoy-un-nikki?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2164605/russia-cheating-north-korea-sanctions-says-us-envoy-un-nikki?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:30:50 +0000 The US ambassador to the United Nations has lashed out at rumours she had an affair with President Donald Trump, calling the gossip “highly offensive” and “disgusting”. Nikki Haley told Politico’s Women Rule podcast on Friday that salacious suggestions made by author Michael Wolff, who penned the explosive White House insider tome Fire and Fury, were “absolutely not true”. The 46-year-old married mother of two said she has faced similar insinuations in the past and dismissed it as resentment... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2130822/nikki-haley-slams-rumours-she-had-affair-president?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2130822/nikki-haley-slams-rumours-she-had-affair-president?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Jan 2018 01:59:42 +0000 Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said on Sunday that any woman who has felt violated or mistreated by a man has every right to speak up, even if she is accusing President Donald Trump. “Women who accuse anyone should be heard,” Haley said on CBS’s Face the Nation. “They should be heard, and they should be dealt with.” Washington has been roiled by sexual misconduct scandals, with accusations leading to the resignations last week of three members of Congress. Alabama... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2123752/trumps-sexual-misconduct-accusers-should-be-heard?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2123752/trumps-sexual-misconduct-accusers-should-be-heard?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:47:45 +0000 The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was evacuated from a UN camp for displaced people in South Sudan on Wednesday when a violent protest against President Salva Kiir erupted, witnesses said. Shortly after Haley left the camp, UN security guards fired tear gas to disperse the crowd of more than 100 residents who looted and destroyed the office of a charity operating there, an aid worker at the camp said. The aid worker spoke on condition of anonymity out of safety fears. Haley... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2117022/us-ambassador-un-nikki-haley-evacuated-violence-erupts-during?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2117022/us-ambassador-un-nikki-haley-evacuated-violence-erupts-during?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:48:52 +0000 In the US stand-offs with North Korea and Iran, it is her striking phrases that dominate the headlines and the airwaves. Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, has become the voice of American foreign policy, all but eclipsing her boss, the discreet US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. The 45-year-old former governor of South Carolina, a daughter of Indian Sikh immigrants, has risen quickly in American conservative politics. And many here can now imagine her going further, perhaps... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110309/nikki-haley-sharp-turn-phrase-eclipses-tillerson?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110309/nikki-haley-sharp-turn-phrase-eclipses-tillerson?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Sep 2017 05:30:45 +0000 US ambassador Nikki Haley sharply criticised the UN peacekeeping commander in Lebanon on Friday, saying he is “blind” to the spread of illegal arms and reiterating a call for the force to do more about it. He says there’s no evidence it’s actually happening. With the peacekeeping mission up for renewal next week, the US has been pressing to step up efforts to tackle what Haley described as a “massive flow of illegal weapons” to Hezbollah-dominated southern Lebanon, where neighbouring Israel has... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/2108405/us-ambassador-nikki-haley-lashes-un-peacekeepers-lebanon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/2108405/us-ambassador-nikki-haley-lashes-un-peacekeepers-lebanon?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Aug 2017 05:23:15 +0000 The US ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that she’s maintaining a hard line against Russia, even as US President Donald Trump continues to dismiss reports of Russian involvement in the 2016 US election. “Certainly I think Russia was involved in the election. There’s no question about that,” Nikki Haley said on ABC’s This Week. As recently as Saturday, Trump derided investigations into Russia’s interference in the election as “the phony Russia story. A total scam!” Yet Haley said she... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2084359/trumps-un-ambassador-nikki-haley-says-russia-was?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2084359/trumps-un-ambassador-nikki-haley-says-russia-was?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:02:26 +0000 South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s journey to the UN has struck members of both parties as unlikely: the appointment of a Republican with limited foreign policy experience to a Cabinet-level post. But through the prism of a career bursting with political diplomacy and ambition, it is a natural next step. Haley, 44, who president-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday as his nominee for US ambassador to the UN, has long shuttled between her party’s mainstream and its conservative base,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2049004/career-filled-political-diplomacy-un-natural-step-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2049004/career-filled-political-diplomacy-un-natural-step-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:00:30 +0000 US president-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he will nominate South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican critic who once rebuked him for failing to disavow white supremacists, as US ambassador to the United Nations. An Asian-American with little previous foreign policy experience, Haley was the first woman to be picked for Trump’s cabinet, injecting a measure of diversity in a group that until now has consisted solely of white men. “Governor Haley has a proven track record... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2048727/trump-taps-south-carolina-governor-nikki-haley-un?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2048727/trump-taps-south-carolina-governor-nikki-haley-un?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:08:15 +0000