The United States resumed domestic air traffic on Friday evening after a nationwide suspension lasting nearly five hours, triggered by a failure in the computer system responsible for communications between air traffic
Sri Lankan authorities have completed a five-day workshop aimed at developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for responding to radiological and nuclear emergencies within the country’s territorial waters. The programme concluded in Colombo
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The recent visit of President Xi to Washington highlights Washington’s interest in reducing tensions with China, facilitating trade, and avoiding conflict.
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We must fight back while we can. But to do so requires that we recapture the language of good and evil. It requires us to make moral choices and to accept self-sacrifice.
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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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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC China has increasingly relied on people outside formal diplomatic structures to communicate with the United States, using academics, business leaders, students, cultural organisations and even sport
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Donald Trump has signed a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland that significantly expands the United States’ military role on the strategically important Arctic island, while stopping short of his earlier calls
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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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US President Donald Trump is preparing to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington on Wednesday, in a break with six decades of protocol that signals the importance
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The US government is considering a halt to diesel exports as fuel prices rise sharply in the United States, with President Donald Trump saying the measure could have a limited effect on
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Iran’s economy is under severe strain, but its military apparatus remains capable of continuing the war. That contradiction is central to the country’s current position, according to an analysis published by Die
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Germany says it wants greater sovereignty in defence procurement, but confidential government documents indicate that its dependence on the United States is increasing as Berlin commits tens of billions of euros to
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The US government’s difficulty in adopting artificial intelligence is not primarily a shortage of powerful models. The harder problem is reorganising the institutions around them. That is the argument made by Garrett
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This column looks beyond government tensions to explore the human connections that have shaped China–US relations, from education and wartime cooperation to youth exchanges and sport. It argues that despite geopolitical differences,
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The Greenland dispute has moved beyond Trump’s rhetoric about buying territory. His demands for US ‘ownership and control’ have raised a deeper question about whether a great power can claim strategic rights
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