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Wolf warrior-style comments mark China’s strongest rhetoric on US president Donald Trump since he entered the White HouseChina’s ministry of foreign affairs has promised that China will “fight to the end” with the US in a “tariff war, trade war or any …
People from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other countries flown out as Trump’s deportation effort intensifiesUS politics – live updatesThe US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to …
Prime minister hoping to revive ‘bromance’ of Trump’s first term despite US president calling India ‘a very big abuser’The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, is heading to Washington for high-stakes talks in an attempt to avoid a trade war with Dona…
Leaders praise each other at White House but president warns Japan could face tariffs if it doesn’t cut US trade deficit to zeroThe Japanese prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, and the US president, Donald Trump, struck a warm tone at their first meeting o…
Sudden suspension of aid funding a ‘perfect opportunity’ for Beijing to fill the gap and grow its own soft powerDonald Trump’s shutdown of USAid has already had disastrous effects on humanitarian aid and development programmes around the world, but it …
Beijing will defend its core interests, but its initial response is more cautious than when Trump imposed levies in 2018Moments after Donald Trump introduced tariffs of 10% on Chinese goods, Beijing retaliated with countermeasures.China’s finance minis…
US funding provides humanitarian assistance to a region vulnerable to natural disasters and support for pro-democracy activists battling repressive regimesTrump’s executive order halting US foreign aid funding flows for 90 days for review has caused gl…
WHO is ‘critical in protecting US business interests’, says CEO of firm that may see lean years if Trump carries out vowThe World Health Organization (WHO) could see lean years ahead if the US withdraws membership under the new Trump administration. Su…
Former vice-president makes surprise visit to Taipei and predicts that if China annexes its neighbour other Asia-Pacific countries will build nuclear arsenalsMike Pence called on Donald Trump’s incoming administration to maintain support for Taiwan aga…
Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US ‘forced to remain in limbo’ in at least 36 countries, some in ‘untenable conditions’Afghan citizens who fled the country with American assistance after the US’s chaotic withdrawal f…
Japan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade warArguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White …
Relevance of World Trade Organization under scrutiny amid US president-elect’s protectionist stanceThe sting of teargas was a price worth paying, said Michael Dolan, as he looks back on the Battle of Seattle and how the World Trade Organization’s attem…
Former staff have criticized the interior department for ignoring the risk of fraud after the Trump administration ceased scrutiny of a $59m fund for nuclear survivors, which is now depletedFormer staff have lashed the US Department of the Interior for…
Biden administration releases review saying president’s options were ‘severely constrained’ by decisions of predecessorThe US government has released a review of the chaotic 2021 troop withdrawal from Afghanistan which largely lays the blame on Donald …
Report by special inspector general blames Trump and Biden administrations, as well as the Afghan government of Ashraf GhaniAfghan armed forces collapsed last year because they had been made dependent on US support that was abruptly withdrawn in the fa…