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The USDA released a plan to counter foreign threats to American farmland. It will ban Chinese nationals from obtaining U.S. agricultural land.

The South End’s Ashley Lujares, 40, runs Mango Tao, a Southeast Asian restaurant pop-up. The name is a play on words: “Mga Tao translates to ‘the people,’ and the Philippines is known for its mangoes.

The agriculture secretary announced a plan to limit Chinese and foreign purchases of farmland as part of its national security strategy.

Berlin says incident risked lives of military personnel protecting Red Sea shipping
The German foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin after a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation helping to protect shipping in the Red Sea.
“The endangerment of German personnel and disruption of the operation are completely unacceptable,” the ministry said on X.

The USDA released a plan to counter foreign threats to American farmland. It will ban Chinese nationals from obtaining U.S. agricultural land.

The USDA released a plan to counter foreign threats to American farmland. It will ban Chinese nationals from obtaining U.S. agricultural land.

The kindergarten students are being treated in hospital after eating food with inedible paint.

What do tariffs, Australian mining, geopolitics and the trade war between China and the US have to do with tiny magnets made from rare earth minerals like yttrium and scandium? Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains

With President Trump preparing to revive tariffs this week, some of the world’s biggest exporters are planning a future less dependent on trade with the United States.

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In 2015, a nationwide campaign rounded up hundreds of rights advocates. Since then, suppression has become more systematic and less visible, lawyers say
A decade on from China’s biggest crackdown on human rights lawyers in modern history, lawyers and activists say that the Chinese Communist party’s control over the legal profession has tightened, making rights defence work next to impossible.
The environment for human rights law has “steadily regressed, especially after the pandemic”, said Ren Quanniu, a disbarred human rights lawyer. “Right now, the rule of law in China – especially in terms of protecting human rights – has deteriorated to a point where it’s almost comparable to the Cultural Revolution era.” The was a decade of mass chaos unleashed by China’s former leader Mao Zedong in 1966. During that time judicial organs were attacked as “bourgeois” and the nascent court system was largely suspended.

Trump announces plans for 10% tariff on BRICS alliance members, calling them "anti-American" while the bloc criticizes unilateral tariffs and attacks on nuclear facilities.