Global Impact is a weekly curated newsletter featuring a news topic originating in China with a significant macro impact for our newsreaders around the world. Sign up now! Leaders representing the Apec descended on Lima, Peru, within a week of the election, before moving on to Rio de Janeiro for the G20’s annual meeting. Xi…
A loving act of mercy by a father who has already known much sorrow? Or a hypocritical political manoeuvre reminiscent of his great foe? Maybe both can be true. Joe Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he had pardoned his son Hunter, who is facing sentencing in two criminal cases, is likely to have been the…
CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a record-breaking defense budget, setting aside a staggering third of the government’s total spending as the war in Ukraine drains resources from both sides nearly three years on. The budget for 2025, which was published Sunday, allocates about $126 billion (13.5 trillion rubles) to national defense –…
US President-elect Donald Trump has responded to outgoing US President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden who had been convicted on charges related to gun crimes and tax violations, calling it a “miscarriage of Justice”. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include…
Indian-American Kashyap “Kash” Patel, who has been nominated as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director by US President-elect Donald Trump, on Sunday joined social media platform X, which was previously known as Twitter. “Hello X,” he said in his first post, which has so far received more than seven million views and 24,000 comments….
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he was pardoning his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing later this month in two federal cases. The younger Biden was convicted of federal gun charges, and he pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges in September. The president had previously maintained that he would not pardon his son,…
WASHINGTON — Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis blasted President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter — saying Sunday that Biden “put his family ahead of the country” and that the move would “tarnish his reputation.” The stinging rebuke from the possible 2028 presidential contender came as Biden, 82, prepared to fly to Angola for an official visit…
US President-elect Donald Trump demanded on Saturday that BRICS member countries commit to not creating a new currency or supporting another currency that would replace the United States dollar or face 100% tariffs. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is…
Lauren Sánchez kept things spicy this fall season. The former news anchor showed off her curvy figure in a Catwoman costume as she shared a series of pictures in a “Fall photo dump” on Instagram Sunday. Sánchez revealed plenty of skin with the dominatrix-style get-up, which featured a patent leather plunging bralette and matching skintight…
WASHINGTON — GOP lawmakers began publicly fuming shortly after President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter Biden. President-elect Donald Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, reacted to Biden’s announcement without naming the president or his son. “The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical…