カテゴリー: Trump administration
Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump’s isolationism rears its head at the United NationsDonald Trump’s return to the White House has accelerated a profound shift in the global order, according to new analysis.A report from …
Panama’s president says strategic waterway will operate as normal after ruling that advances US policy aimsPanama’s president said ports at each end of the Panama canal would operate as usual after the country’s supreme court ruled the concession held …
US president says tariffs on automobiles, lumber and pharmaceuticals will rise to 25%, accusing Seoul of not living up to a trade deal struck last yearDonald Trump has said he is raising tariffs on South Korean goods including automobiles, lumber and p…
PM’s visit to Beijing seen as a welcome reset to relations in a ‘new world order’ but critics worry what trade deal could mean for Canadian workersMark Carney’s trip to Beijing this week secured what he described as a “preliminary but landmark” trade d…
Mark Carney holds talks with Xi Jinping on rare Beijing trip as Canada seeks to diversify trade links away from USBusiness live – latest updatesCanada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has hailed a “new strategic partnership” with China as he held talks i…
US ambassador defends attack as ‘law enforcement’ action against an ‘illegitimate’ leader, not an act of warThe ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in VenezuelaThe US has faced widespread condemnation for a “crime of aggression” in Venezuel…
Community leaders raise alarm over study links and Polynesian ties, with Tonga to face restrictions from January as US says too many overstayThe small Pacific nation of Tonga is one of more than a dozen countries to be hit with visa and entry restricti…
US president says Chinese leader did not notify him of drills that have involved live missile launches into Taiwan straitTaiwan-China tensions – explained in 30 secondsDonald Trump has said he is not worried by China’s live-fire military drills surroun…
$10bn Trump-approved sale to Taipei triggers Beijing sanctions against firms such as Boeing and Northrop GrummanChina’s foreign ministry has hit US defence companies including Boeing with sanctions after Donald Trump approved a large package of arms sa…
Trump again called for Venezuela’s president to leave power and said the US would keep or sell the oil it had seizedChina and Russia have expressed support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, while Donald Trump contin…
US president says he feels ‘so badly’ about Lai’s conviction and has spoken to the Chinese leader about itDonald Trump has said he wants Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul’s conviction on …
Lawyers say people ‘don’t feel safe to leave their home’ as officials target recent arrivals and those awaiting hearingsImmigration agents appear to be increasingly arresting and detaining Afghan asylum seekers, especially men, who have arrived in the …
At least 20 killed and almost 200 injured, as Trump claims he can settle hostilities ‘pretty quickly’What’s behind the Thailand-Cambodia clashes – explained in 30 secondsDeadly fighting has continued along the disputed border of Cambodia and Thailand, …
The administration is heightening its anti-immigrant crackdown – and punishing people from a country the US helped destroyAfter two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition…
Thousands of Myanmar diaspora are at risk of deportation, after the US said they no longer required Temporary Protective StatusAung* was finishing his studies in New York when Myanmar’s junta tried to conscript him into the civil war raging in his home…