カテゴリー: US politics
With $500bn worth of trade in the crosshairs of Donald Trump’s tariffs, Xi Jinping is preparing for four more years of unpredictabilityChina is bracing itself for four years of volatile relations with its biggest trading partner and geopolitical rival,…
Billboards with Harris’s face wishing her good luck erected across sleepy village and daily prayers held at local templeKamala Harris may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village in south India, but its residents claim to be some of her mo…
Fumio Kishida warns of risks from China in address to Congress and says Japan determined to do more to share responsibilityJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, on Thursday called on Americans to overcome their “self-doubt” as he offered a paean to US…
The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001Joe Biden is “privately defiant” that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new b…
In 1971 he advised Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, writes Robert EvansJonathan Steele’s obituary of Henry Kissinger (29 November) omits reference to his part in what the author G…
Announcement fuels hope rivals can use Apec summit as a chance to reduce tensionsChina and the US have pledged to work together more closely to fight global heating, declaring the climate crisis “one of the greatest challenges of our time”, hours befor…
Getting approval for nuclear submarine plan through legislature a question of ‘not if, but when’Joe Biden has played down congressional jitters over the Aukus nuclear-powered submarine deal and has revealed he assured Xi Jinping that the countries invo…
New report airs arguments for and against nuclear-powered submarine sale to Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDoubts about Australia’s willingness to…
‘Candid, substantive and constructive’ talks were held as a possible prelude to a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in NovemberTop US and Chinese diplomats met in Malta over the weekend as the world’s two largest economies attempted to smooth strained relat…
The US president’s remarks came after after meeting in Vietnam with Communist party official to secure global supply chainJoe Biden’s national security tour of south-east Asia reached Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday, where the president called for stability …
New measures from the US Treasury will target several key sectors including semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligenceJoe Biden has moved to restrict US investment in Chinese technology, signing an executive order which focuses on a …
India’s prime minister ‘has a notorious and extensive record of human rights abuses’, said a statement from lawmakersNarendra Modi’s state visit to the US has prompted condemnation and protest from Muslim leaders, lawmakers and other allies.US house re…
Deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing imperil contact between citizens, but also make it more importantRicher and more complex stories lie behind dominant narratives, as the British Museum’s fascinating new exhibition, China’s Hidden C…
China has said it would take ‘resolute’ measures to defend sovereignty, after denouncing Tsai’s meeting in California with McCarthyChina–Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsTaiwan authorities are monitoring Chinese military activity including a carr…
More than 78,000 Afghan refugees relocated to the US as part of Operation Allies Welcome, but few have gained permanent statusOn the day he turned 24 earlier this month, Asmatullah checked the status of his asylum request online, hoping that an approva…