Katie Zacharia, the newly appointed White House press secretary, is facing questions about whether she is licensed to practise law in the United States after being unable to identify a state where
Melania Trump and China’s first lady Peng Liyuan spent 45 minutes touring the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington on Thursday, visiting Chinese artworks and the museum’s celebrated Peacock Room
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Chinese President Xi Jinping used his arrival ceremony at the White House to frame China-US relations around cooperation, stability and what he described as two national projects that can advance together: the
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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have stressed cooperation and closer relations during a meeting at the White House, with both leaders describing their relationship in notably warm terms
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China’s growing industrial strength is forcing Washington to confront realities that tariffs and political rhetoric cannot erase. Its dominance in shipbuilding, batteries, electric vehicles, solar manufacturing and critical minerals gives Beijing substantial
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The unusual tarmac reception signals Washington’s effort to court the Chinese president as the two leaders prepare for talks on trade, technology and global competition.
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US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez met in New York on Tuesday on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, in a meeting confirmed by the White House
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US President Donald Trump is taking a less combative approach towards China ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping this week, reflecting what China experts say is Beijing’s growing leverage through
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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are due to meet in Washington on September 24, with trade expected to dominate a summit shaped by shifting economic fortunes and mounting
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China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun adopted a notably softer tone at the Xiangshan Forum, stressing dialogue, cooperation and multilateralism while avoiding direct references to Taiwan, the South China Sea and the United
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For an entire generation of Americans, the sight of the Soviet Sputnik satellite passing overhead became a symbol of technological vulnerability. The first artificial satellite launched a space race that ultimately saw
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US President Donald Trump has dismissed calls for stronger safeguards on artificial intelligence, arguing that the United States already has mechanisms to regulate and prosecute companies and declaring that the technology’s principal
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Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but he is responsible for its fatal denouement.
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The price of crude oil has risen to its highest level since May as renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz intensify concerns over energy supplies. A barrel of North Sea Brent
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More than a century ago, Franz Kafka imagined an America where politics resembled a travelling circus. In his unfinished novel America, written between 1912 and 1914, the young emigrant Karl Roßmann encounters
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump held an extensive telephone conversation on Tuesday focused on resolving the Ukraine crisis and exploring prospects for restoring economic and commercial relations
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