Trump said Tuesday while meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office that he would be going to China in five or six weeks’ time instead of at the end of the month. He said he would be “resetting” his visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “We’re working with China — they…
PARIS (AP) — China warned Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves could harm the countries’ trade relationship, at the end of high-level talks in Paris. Li Chenggang, China’s international trade representative, said the Chinese side had expressed serious concern about trade investigations into manufacturing in foreign countries that the Trump administration launched…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in comments released Sunday that he was ready for the next round of trilateral peace talks to end Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of Ukraine, but that it was up to Washington and Moscow to agree on where and when to meet. Zelenskyy said the U.S….
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has stated that it is “surprising” to see leaders go ‘backwards in the civilisation process”. The French President’s remarks come as a response to US President Donald Trump leaking private texts between the two leaders. During his three-day visit to India, Macron sat down with Indian podcaster Raj Shamani on ‘Figuring…
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday his country has no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with China. He was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor went ahead with a trade deal with Beijing. Carney…
BEIJING (AP) — Canada, under Pierre Trudeau in the early 1970s, was among the first Western nations to recognize the communist government in China, nearly a decade ahead of the United States. A half-century later, relations soured under Trudeau’s son, Justin. His successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney, is in Beijing this week in an attempt…
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative held a hearing this week on the Phase One Trade Agreement with China, negotiated during President Trump’s first term. U.S. Meat Export Federation President and CEO Dan Halstrom said the initial trade agreement delivered tremendous benefits for the U.S. beef industry. He added American beef exports to China…
China’s “mega embassy” planned for London could act as Beijing’s “interference hub” for the whole of Europe, a group opposing the plan has told Newsweek. The proposed mission would consolidate seven Chinese diplomatic sites around London, and while the embassy has faced delays and not yet been approved, it could get the green light in January, it has been reported The Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) executive director, Luke de Pulford, told Newsweek on Thursday that the site “poses unacceptable risks” regarding security and espionage. …
Germany’s finance minister said Thursday Beijing had made a “clear” commitment on ensuring rare earth supplies, following the first visit to China by a minister from Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government. Germany and China have long had deep economic ties, but those have frayed in recent times over issues ranging from claims of unfair trade practices to…
Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov held a one-off phone call with British national security adviser Jonathan Powell early this year, the Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday. Earlier, the Financial Times reported that Powell had called Ushakov in January in an attempt to open a confidential line of communication with Moscow, but the conversation “did not go…