Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China hits back at Trump with reciprocal tariffs, sanctions of US firms China has revealed the details of its response to new tariffs from the United States on its…
China will be “the main beneficiary” of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policies, including his decision to align with Russia over Ukraine, Kyiv’s former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has said. “I’m not surprised by the fact, but I’m surprised by how quickly this fact was exposed and literally formalised,” said Kuleba, who served as foreign…
US president-elect Donald Trump has suggested that China could play a key role in brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine, in comments that referenced the dramatic collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s 50-year regime in Syria on Sunday. “Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can…
And unlike others in Trump’s MAGA circle, Kellogg welcomed President Joe Biden’s decision to approve Ukraine’s use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia, saying it has given Trump “more leverage” and adding that “it gives President Trump more ability to pivot from that.” Contrast that with the howls of protest over the…