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Exclusive: Move allows China to further global influence, UK foreign secretary says on Ukraine visit
Donald Trump’s plans to make dramatic cuts to the United States’ international aid budget could be a “big strategic mistake” that allows China to step in and further its global influence, the UK foreign secretary has said.
David Lammy cautioned that Britain’s own experience of , announced by Boris Johnson in 2020 with little fanfare, was a serious blow to Britain’s “soft power” in developing countries and beyond.

President halts plan to put tariffs on low-value packages but says he will impose duties on more countries next week
Donald Trump halted a key part of his tariff attack on China on Friday, as he threatened to impose new US duties on goods from many more countries next week.
Plans to ensure shipments from China to the US worth less than $800 still face tariffs – removing the longstanding duty-free status of low-cast packages – have been delayed to give more time to federal agencies to prepare for the change.

Media group led by Guardian seeks release of document written by Dominic Hampshire in support of Yang Tengbo
Lawyers for an aide to Prince Andrew are fighting to prevent the release of a statement he made in support of a man accused of being a Chinese spy who became a trusted business partner of the prince.
The Guardian is leading a group of media organisations seeking the release of a witness statement written by the prince’s fixer and close friend Dominic Hampshire, originally at the personal request of the businessman Yang Tengbo.

The order ending duty-free shipment of packages from China worth less than $800 had caused chaos.

The US president hopes tariffs will help close the huge trade gap by potentially pressuring Beijing into a new deal
Donald Trump to tax all imports from Mexico and Canada this week, citing action by those countries against migration and drug smuggling; but it was telling that tariffs on China went ahead.
When it comes to the US’s neighbours, Trump’s Treasury secretary, the hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, made clear in a Fox News interview that tariffs are essentially a negotiating tool – partly aimed at achieving non-economic goals.

Campaigners and retailers say Britain should follow US and EU in phasing out exemption on duties for low-value parcels
Tax campaigners have joined retailers in urging the UK government to close a tax loophole to prevent a “massive influx” of cheap goods from companies such as Shein and Temu flooding the market.
It comes after the EU said it was that has been used by the companies to export goods from China cheaply.

US had made inroads against Chinese influence in Panama, but Trump’s demands could help Beijing expand its regional power
When Panama’s then president Juan Carlos Varela was invited to the White House in June 2017, said the was doing “pretty well” and described the bilateral relationship as “very strong”.
Just days earlier, Varela had broken ties with Taiwan to establish diplomatic relations with , but there was no indication that this snub to a key US ally had clouded the meeting.

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Minister to decide on plan for 20,000-sq-metre site near Tower of London after Beijing resubmitted proposal
More than 1,000 protesters are due to object to China’s proposed new “super-embassy” in London on Saturday before a crunch decision by the government.
A demonstration against the embassy, which has become a , is being held at Royal Mint Court, a historic site near the Tower of London.

Michael Chang once opened up about his cultural identity after growing up in the United States as the son of Chinese immigrants.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green is leading a new bill to further restrict China from getting its hands on sensitive U.S. technology.

Despite the declaration that all remains had been removed, the county exhumed 265 graves in the cemetery block twenty years later. The county paved over the Chinese burial site in 1953 and built the ...