US President Donald Trump’s trade war is pushing the three closer together, but trust issues run deep, making it a fragile partnership By Karishma Vaswani / Bloomberg Opinion The Russia-India-China alliance, floated in the 1990s as a counterweight to the US, is being revived today as a way for the three countries to ride out…
For decades, flying cars and airborne taxis have been the stuff of science fiction, from Back to the Future to The Fifth Element. These films promised a world where traffic jams disappeared into the sky, where technology redefined mobility, and where cities adapted to vertical transportation. That future always seemed distant, like a dream postponed….
A market analyst says he’s concerned China still hasn’t purchased any U.S. soybeans for the new crop marketing year. Arlan Suderman is with StoneX Group says the country usually has 150 to 200 million bushels of new crop U.S. soybeans booked by now. Instead “they’ve been very aggressively booking South American soybeans, mostly Brazil.” Suderman…
Taipei — The head of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday he was determined the United States and Taiwan remain “the best of friends,” calling the democratic island claimed by China a “free country,” as he visited with another American lawmaker. Republican Senators Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer arrived in Taipei on Friday…
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, Kim Jong Un speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone at an undisclosed location in North Korea, Aug. 12. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image and its content cannot be independently verified. Korean Central News Agency/Korea…
Welcome to our guide to the commodities markets powering the global economy. Today, China-based energy reporter Dan Murtaugh asks what the rest of the world can learn from the nation’s success in deploying offshore wind turbines. It was only a few years ago that the offshore wind industry conjured a future with a near-limitless supply…
LAWRENCE — Economic security or economic freedom? That is the tricky choice faced by the world’s advanced democracies, particularly when navigating the problematic trade relationship with China. “We’ve seen a dramatic shift away from economic freedom toward a focus on economic security, which is driven by apprehensions about technology and the rise of China,” said…
The Trump Administration said it will revoke waivers for Samsung Electronics Co., SK Hynix Inc. and an Intel Corp. unit to use US technologies in their Chinese operations, dealing another blow to China’s access to advanced chipmaking know-how. The semiconductor companies have been operating in China under regulations that allow them to import chipmaking equipment…
Russia said it ‘strongly condemns’ actions of Germany, France and UK as China says sanctions move ‘counterproductive’. Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025 Russia and China have condemned a decision by Britain, Germany and France to launch a process that could reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. The three European…
Aug. 29 (UPI) — China will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a regional security summit this weekend. Modi will travel to China for his first visit in seven years, as India and China have feuded in the past over a border dispute in the Himalayas. More than 20 heads of state will attend…