Nippon Steel plans to invest about $3bn in a major modernisation of U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley works in Pennsylvania, making the facility the largest target of its planned investment in the United
High-profile figures including Eric Schmidt face public rejection at US graduation ceremonies, exposing a widening generational rift over artificial intelligence, its promises, and its perceived threat to young people’s future. A series
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U.S. President Donald Trump and his delegation reportedly discarded all gifts and souvenirs received during a high-level visit to China, including access badges, commemorative items, and temporary communication devices, before boarding the
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Drop Site News has published what it describes as the full transcript of Cable I-0678, a classified Pakistani diplomatic cypher dated March 7, 2022, which sits at the heart of former Prime
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May Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special significance in light of heightened US aggression. Over 5 million Cubans reportedly
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China has committed to purchasing at least $17 billion worth of United States agricultural products annually between 2026 and 2028, according to a White House fact sheet released following high-level meetings between
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US federal prosecutors are examining valuation practices at a private credit fund managed by BlackRock, marking a new escalation in regulatory scrutiny of the fast-growing private credit sector. According to people familiar
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The United States and Bangladesh are moving forward with a series of defence and trade agreements that are expected to significantly expand Washington’s military and strategic footprint in the Bay of Bengal.
More US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing not as the leader of an unchallenged superpower, but as the head of a nervous empire trying to negotiate with the factory floor that now
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Narratives in international diplomacy are best formed through an organic process as the variables in any given situation get played out in the fulness of time and a ‘new normal’ accrues as
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Cuba is not merely experiencing a crisis. It is living through the slow unravelling of a political project that once promised dignity through equality and sovereignty through
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The United States is confronting a far more entrenched rare earth dependency problem than its recent political rhetoric suggests. Over the past year, President Donald Trump has pushed an aggressive agenda aimed
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An unusually large and heavily layered motorcade escorting President Donald Trump through Beijing during his recent state visit to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping has drawn significant attention from observers, particularly due
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to invoke the “Thucydides Trap” during a major summit with the United States in Beijing was far more than a passing historical reference. It was a carefully
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor U.S. President Donald Trump has begun a closely watched three-day visit to China at a moment of heightened geopolitical tension, returning to Beijing for the first time
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The United States has escalated its strained relationship with Europe after the Pentagon abruptly cancelled a planned deployment of a 4,000-strong armored brigade to Poland, a decision that has intensified concerns about
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