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
The US-China summit aims to stabilise relations through cooperation on trade, investment, AI safety and people-to-people exchanges, while recognising that strategic competition will continue. New bilateral mechanisms could provide greater certainty for
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The United States and China should develop a common language for identifying and responding to artificial intelligence risks rather than trying to resolve their broader technology rivalry, a Chinese think tank affiliated
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A US judge has authorised investment fund Titan Consortium to begin proceedings seeking the seizure of Argentine state assets abroad over a compensation dispute arising from Argentina’s 2008 expropriation of its national
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Lieutenant General Joel “JB” Vowell, Deputy Commanding General of the US Army Pacific (USARPAC), arrived in Colombo on September 29 for engagements with Sri Lankan military officials, becoming the highest-ranking US Army
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Trump evidently decided on his own to direct the Navy to build new battleships based on his having watched the black-and-white television series Victory at Sea when he was young.
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by Durga The most revealing sentence in Lindy Li’s Unburdened may be the one that sounds least like political analysis: “Why did I do it? You want the unvarnished truth…? It was
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by Eric A family history can begin with a birth certificate, a grave, a photograph or a name. Edward Ball begins somewhere more difficult: with a sexual encounter whose moral meaning cannot
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The formal end of the US military support mission in Iraq on September 30 will mark a major change in the relationship between Washington and Baghdad, shifting the emphasis from a US-led
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The United States and Russia worked to weaken proposed international safeguards for lethal autonomous weapons during United Nations negotiations in Geneva this month, removing provisions that would have required greater reliability, ethical
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For travellers making connecting flights, an airport’s size and number of destinations can matter less than how quickly passengers can move between gates. A data study of the 50 largest US airports
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The planned withdrawal of nearly all remaining US troops from Iraq by the end of September is leaving Washington’s Kurdish allies facing what the prime minister of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region describes
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Iran on Sunday insisted that diplomacy was the only way to resolve its conflict with the United States and Israel after US President Donald Trump said he had rejected an Iranian proposal
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The United States “very much” understands Taiwan’s defence needs and the severe military threat it faces from China, a senior Taiwanese diplomat said on Sunday, following a summit between US President Donald
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US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes the United States and Cuba will reach an agreement on a change of regime and indicated that military action would not be
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by Our Correspondent in Hong Kong SAR The speed of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flight between Beijing and Washington has exposed an unusual consequence of the competing airspace restrictions imposed after Russia’s
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