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US president makes threat after Russian nuclear-powered weapons tests and shortly before meeting with Chinese leader
Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China.
In a , Trump said “because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.”

Donald Trump hails ‘amazing’ trade talks with Chinese counterpart, with ‘no roadblock at all on rare earth’


Donald Trump has described crucial trade talks with the Chinese president in South Korea as “amazing”, saying their dispute over the had been settled and that he would visit China in April.
Xi Jinping has not commented on Thursday’s discussions but noted that the economic and trade teams from both countries had “reached a basic consensus on addressing our respective major concerns” during recent talks in Kuala Lumpur, according to Chinese state media. That had “provided the necessary conditions” for their meeting on Thursday, he added.

Donald Trump said the US and China had agreed 'to a lot of things' during trade talks in South Korea, and would be having further discussions. The US president described Xi Jinping as 'distinguished and respected', while the Chinese leader said: 'We do not always see eye to eye with each other, and it is normal.' Trump hailed the trade talks as 'amazing', saying the dispute over the supply of rare earths had been settled and that he would visit China in April

The two leaders met face-to-face for the first time in six years on Thursday.

Trump says the meeting with President Xi, which was their first face-to-face interaction since 2019, was a "great success".

Island countries understood that a day like this would come.

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Media group’s own paper publishes photograph of RedBird Capital chair with alleged spy ring chief
The sale of the Telegraph Media Group has been thrown into fresh turmoil after the company’s own newspaper linked its presumed new owner to the suspected ringleader of the alleged Chinese spy ring in Westminster.
Wednesday’s edition of the Daily Telegraph of the financier John Thornton shaking hands with Cai Qi, a senior member of the Chinese Communist party’s ruling politburo, raising questions as to whether the British title is being weighed as a means for China to exert foreign influence.

The president signaled he would discuss the sale of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips in a summit on Thursday, a move U.S. officials warned would be a “massive” national security mistake.

President Trump and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping are being described as “irreplaceable” and “world class leaders” before a meeting seen as critical for shoring up a trade truce.

Ford CEO Jim Farley said China's auto industry has "enough capacity" to serve the "entire North American market, put us all out of business." ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Wednesday (Thursday morning local time).