People watch a TV screen showing a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, June 5, 2026. Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a signing ceremony with Russian President Vladimir Putin at…
The European Commission has presented a sweeping tech sovereignty package to boost homegrown technologies and reduce dependency on American and Chinese companies. Whether it will make a meaningful difference — and how the two superpowers will react — remain open questions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We live in a world where geopolitics and technology are inseparable. Those…
A worker pans through ore at a tungsten mine, operated by Trinity Metals Group, in northwest of Kigali, Rwanda, on Friday, May 23, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Iran war has caused well-documented price spikes and shortages on a range of items Americans depend upon. Oil and gas, of course, but also…
Taiwan on Tuesday recorded the presence of 8 PLAN vessels, 5 official ships and 7 sorties of PLA aircraft as per the Ministry of National Defence (MND). China’s claim over Taiwan is a complex issue rooted in historical, political, and legal arguments. (Representational Photo/REUTERS) It further noted that 7 of the 7 sorties entered Taiwan’s…
US President Donald Trump confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a heated phone call on Monday over Israel’s continuous bombardment of Lebanon, according to Axios, citing US officials and a source briefed on the call. During the call, Trump referred to Netanyahu as “crazy” and accused him of being ungrateful, the report said. (AP)…
Taiwan has criticised China’s use of “crude methods” to prevent the media from engaging with its president Lai Ching-te after a New York Times reporter was expelled. The Chinese government expelled Vivian Wang, a journalist with the New York Times, in February following ane newspaper’s interview with Mr Lai in December. Wang, who had been…
As globalization moves beyond the circulation of goods toward deeper industrial integration, a new question is emerging for the fashion industry: how can the sector secure a meaningful seat at the global table? The answer increasingly lies not in export volume alone, but in supply chain integration, local collaboration, sustainability standards and long-term strategic value….
Amid wait for a final peace deal, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reportedly claimed that it shot down a US’ MQ-1 drone after it allegedly entered its territorial airspace early on Sunday. Advanced air defence missiles targeted and reportedly ‘successfully’ destroyed the MQ-1 drone. (Representational Photo/AFP) The American drone was immediately detected by the…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. President Trump’s war on Iran is turning out to be an even bigger calamity than it seemed just a few weeks ago. Not only has he proved unable to convert America’s vastly superior military…
BEIJING: China’s industrial profits in April grew at the fastest pace since November 2023, despite financial pressures stemming from softening domestic demand and rising component costs exacerbated by the Middle East crisis. The latest data adds to signs of an uneven recovery, with the economy largely losing momentum at the start of the second quarter….