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foreign ministry called on the US to stop its 'arrogant and bullying behaviour' after President 104% duties on Chinese imports took effect. Speaking to reporters at a regular media briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said the US continued to impose tariffs on China 'indiscriminately'. 'If the US really wants to solve the problem through dialogue and negotiation, it should adopt an attitude of equality, respect and mutual benefit,' Lin added. Trump's 'reciprocal' tariffs on dozens of countries began on Wednesday, including 104% duties on Chinese goods, deepening his global trade war and triggering more widespread selling across financial markets

State media drove social media discussions around phrases like: “America is fighting a trade war while begging for eggs.”

Australia well placed to deal with uncertainty of global economy but should be prepared as US doubles down on protectionist policies, economists warn
Australia’s economy will not escape unscathed from Donald Trump’s trade war, economists have warned, after the US hiked duties on Chinese imports to 104% and enacted world-wide tariffs that have .
As regional and the Australian dollar slid below US60 cents, and to its lowest in more than two decades outside the pandemic, experts warned trade between China and the United States would grind to a halt as Trump followed through on his threat to slap even higher “reciprocal” import duties on about 60 trading partners.

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Mining and energy companies among biggest casualties as Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs come into effect
Australian shares closed sharply lower on Wednesday, as the world’s two largest economies entered into an escalating trade war, evaporating any hopes that a last-minute compromise might take place.
Donald Trump’s super-sized tariffs against dozens of countries, including 104% duties on Chinese goods, came into effect part way through the Australian trading session, souring the mood for investors.

The Hebei nursing home’s other residents have been transferred to nearby hospitals as authorities investigate cause of the blaze
Twenty people have died in a fire at a nursing home in northern ’s Hebei province, Beijing’s state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.
The fire broke out on Tuesday night at the nursing home in Longhua County, roughly 180km northeast of the Chinese capital Beijing, Xinhua said.

Since Trump’s first trade war with China in 2018, Beijing has ramped up trade with other countries, making it less dependent on the US
The opening shots seem like a distant memory. Back in January, US president Donald Trump threatened to impose on Chinese imports. Less than three months later, .
China has condemned the tariffs. As well as applying its own , Beijing has been fighting a war of words.

Beijing issued a lengthy denunciation of U.S. trade policies and accused Washington of violating a trade deal the countries reached in President Trump’s first term.

China sees little to gain in capitulating to President Trump’s tariff threats, labeling them “blackmail” and vowing to “fight to the end.”

The Ukrainian president says the Chinese nationals were just two of many fighting with Russian forces. What we know on day 1,141
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government is seeking clarification from Beijing after Ukrainian forces fighting with Russian forces in the eastern Donetsk region.
Zelenskyy said the captured fighters were two of many more Chinese members of the Russian armed forces, and in the conflict “directly or indirectly”. A few hundred Chinese nationals are thought to have travelled to fight as mercenaries with the Russian army alongside others from Nepal and central Asian countries.
US state department spokesperson Tammy Bruce called the development “disturbing”, adding: “ is a major enabler of in the war in .”
Russian forces staged massive drone attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv late on Tuesday, triggering fires and injuring at least 17 people, regional officials said. In eastern Donetsk, the focal point of the 1,000-km (600-mile) frontline in the more than three-year-old war, a residential area came under attack in the city of Kramatorsk and local officials said residents were injured. In Dnipro, the attack sparked a fire, damaged houses and cars and injured 14 people, Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram.
Russia says it is close to regaining full control of its western Kursk region after there. Russia’s defence ministry released a video of what it said was the recapture of the settlement of Guyevo set to dramatic music, showing smoke rising into the air from various buildings, a soldier waving the Russian flag from the window of a heavily damaged Orthodox church, and Russian troops carrying out house-to-house checks in case any Ukrainian soldiers were hiding. Ukraine officials have not commented on Russia’s claims, but its general staff said in a statement its planes had struck a complex of hangars and military buildings in the region being used by Russian drone operators and maintenance workers.
The has confirmed the appointment of Elbridge Colby as its top policy adviser at the Pentagon, despite concerns he had downplayed threats from Russia and Vladimir Putin. Colby previously questioned whether Russia actually invaded Ukraine, echoing a false Kremlin talking point. After side-stepping repeated questions on whether he believed Russia did invade the country, he was forced to agree it had.
US and Russian delegates will hold talks on Thursday in Istanbul on restoring some of their embassy operations that have been drastically scaled back following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the US state department confirmed.