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Texas AG Ken Paxton is investigating Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek due to data privacy concerns.

With less than a month in office, the president has pursued trade actions that could shatter the global trading system and dwarf the trade measures he took over his entire first term.

Politicians believe tariffs will revive a lost era of American manufacturing. But they won’t improve people’s everyday lives
Donald Trump appears to be testing the boundaries of the power he can accumulate and then exert upon his allies, with a singular ambition: to coerce them into submitting to US supremacy. Though the president temporarily walked back his threat to unleash severe universal tariffs on , he has since on all steel and aluminium imports, which will primarily hit , and has announced a new plan for “” on American trading partners. Above all, he clearly intends to wage a . His brash, bombastic and belligerent threats reflect the reactionary political energy that drove his rise, which feeds on displays of dominance and disruption. His trade war won’t work to restore US economic dominance – but it tells us a lot about how both sides of the political aisle blame the US’s economic precarity on China’s economic ascent.
Over the past decade both Democrats and Republicans have blamed growing economic discontent on the . The share of the US workforce employed in manufacturing has been in decline since the 1950s: today, just over 8% of American workers are employed in manufacturing, compared with 32% in 1953. The postwar era holds a powerful resonance for both the right and the left, and is often romanticised as a period when unionised male breadwinners in the industrial working class enjoyed far greater economic stability and prosperity than working and middle-class people do today. Viewed through this prism, since the decline of US manufacturing has occurred at the same time that China has emerged as a global manufacturing powerhouse, China’s gains equate to the US’s – and its workers’ – losses.
Melanie Brusseler is a political economist and the US programme director at the thinktank Common Wealth
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President Trump said China and Russia should halve their military spending and limit nuclear weapons. You first, China said.

Recruitment drive comes amid increasing focus on an asteroid with a low – but growing – likelihood of hitting earth in seven years
China has begun recruiting for a planetary defence force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably hit Earth in 2032.
Job ads posted online by China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) this week, sought young loyal graduates focused on aerospace engineering, international cooperation and asteroid detection.

China could ‘pick up the slack’ and increase its influence in the region after Doge funding freeze
Donald Trump’s of foreign aid has left Australian government-funded projects in limbo, putting climate change, health and education initiatives across Asia and the Pacific at risk, experts say.
The Trump administration, with the help of billionaire and unelected “special government employee” Elon Musk and his “department of government efficiency” (Doge), gutted the agency and stopped funding flows.

Chinese companies are investing in U.S.-based production and warehouses as President Donald Trump cracks down on imported goods from China with steep tariffs.

TikTok is again available on app stores in the US after President Donald Trump delayed a ban on the app.

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Australian defence department says it is monitoring three Chinese ships in the Coral Sea
Australia has rejected Chinese allegations an Australian airforce plane “deliberately intruded into China’s airspace” and undermined its national security, saying the actions of a Chinese navy fighter pilot who released flares near the Australian aircraft were “wrong … and very very dangerous”.
Australia’s defence department accused the Chinese navy of an “unsafe and unprofessional” incident by allegedly dropping flares dangerously close to an Australian patrol flight on what it described as routine operations in the South China Sea on Tuesday.

The US president has repeatedly threatened to tax imports at the same rate those countries impose on US goods
has once again threatened to impose a wave of tariffs on US imports, stepping up his bid to overhaul the global economic order.
On Thursday, the US president said he plans to , ensuring the US imposes the same taxes on its imports from the rest of the world that American goods face in other countries.

‘We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things,’ the US president said
said that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation’s nuclear deterrent and said he hopes to gain commitments from the US adversaries to cut their own spending.