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As Trump’s tariffs loom, Chinese sellers pitch bargain dupes to Americans, fuelling viral demand and political sympathy online.

From rare earths to billions in US debt, here's what China has in its arsenal - and how strong they are.

The president’s threats of tariffs have brought countries like Japan, South Korea and India rushing to negotiate, but they have sown chaos with bigger trading partners like China.

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Asian Food Fest will feature more than 100 performers and entertainers from cultures across the Asian diaspora, including rock bands, traditional dances, taiko drummers, University of Cincinnati ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued in a speech that the multilateral economic institutions have veered away from their missions.

Virtual meeting of leaders also hears UN’s António Guterres proclaim ‘no group or government’ can stop green revolution
China will continue to push forward on the climate crisis, Xi Jinping has said while appearing to criticise the “protectionism” of Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
The Chinese president was attending a closed-door virtual meeting with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and about a dozen other heads of state and government to discuss the climate crisis.

Spokesperson for Tory leader says she agrees with colleague that ‘we need to bring centre-right voters together’. This blog is closed
Rosie Duffield, the independent MP who left Labour after the election in part because she felt her gender critical views made her unwelcome in the party (although ), has claimed that Keir Starmer no longer arguing a trans woman is a woman shows he is a “manager rather than a leader”.
Speaking on LBC, Duffield said:
It’s just another sign of the prime minister’s lack of leadership skills. I’m bound to say that, he’s a manager rather than a leader. He responds and reacts rather than leads from the front, and this is what we’re seeing again from him.
Nigel Farage is peddling a dangerous fantasy by claiming the UK can be self-sufficient in gas.
After sixty years of drilling, the truth is the UK has already burned most of its gas. That’s down to geology, not politics, and no amount of hot air from Farage will change that.

A pragmatic China policy should not ignore the lived experience of the diaspora in Britain and beyond, says Sum Kung
As a Hongkonger with a British national (overseas) – BNO – passport who is now living in Britain, I read your editorial about the UK’s evolving position on China with both personal and political weight (). For many of us who left Hong Kong following the imposition of the national security law, the threat from the ruling regime was not abstract – it was immediate, personal and existential.
Our migration was not simply a search for better opportunities but a necessary departure from a city whose freedoms were being rapidly dismantled.

Weeks of tough talk from the US president, who now says he will be ‘very nice’ to China, had rattled investors
Stock markets have risen around the world after said his tariffs on China would come down “substantially” and he had “no intention” of firing the chair of the US central bank, Jerome Powell.
Weeks of tough talk on trade from White House officials have rattled investors and Trump now appears to be softening his tone. The president told reporters in Washington on Tuesday he in trade talks and that tariffs could drop in both countries if they could reach a deal, adding: “It will come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.”

Ex-U.S. Army intelligence officer Korbein Schultz will spend the next 7 years in jail for allegedly selling American military secrets to Chinese officials and trying to recruit others.

Energy secretary to force Great British Energy to ensure there is no slavery or human trafficking in its supply chain
Ed Miliband will ban the UK’s national energy company from investing in projects that use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour after bowing to pressure from Labour and Conservative MPs.
The energy secretary has dropped his previous resistance to rewriting the and will now introduce an amendment that forces the company to make sure there is no slavery or human trafficking in its supply chain.