Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and Economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Can Beijing get other countries on its side as Trump challenges loom? President Xi Jinping arrives for a meeting with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines…
The threat of nuclear war seems higher than it has in ages, but the stock market wants what wants—and it wants to go higher. While investors talk about all the reasons the stock market could blow up—valuations are sky-high, the growing concentration of Magnificent Seven names, including Nvidia Apple and Microsoft and a resurgence of…
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks. Here is some international reaction to Tuesday’s move: WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL “We were not surprised by Russia’s announcement that it would update its nuclear doctrine;…
On January 6, 2021, pro-Trumpers entered Capitol Hill, the government’s centre in Washington DC, to protest against the results of the 2020 election that went against President Donald Trump. Democratic candidate Joe Biden called this riot an “unprecedented assault”. The tables have turned in the 2024 elections. And after a Trump win and in the…
Russian nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles parade through Red Square. The Kremlin … [+] has repeatedly threatened to detonate nuclear weapons during its invasion of democratic Ukraine (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images While The Wall Street Journal has been blasting out its bombshell story…