US President Donald Trump on Monday revealed that there was an opportunity to make a deal with any official in Venezuela to ‘remove’ Nicolas Maduro and said that his team decided to do it without the help of the Venezuelan leader’s ‘inner circle’. For the question of who is ultimately in charge of Venezuela after…
President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Tuesday (December 23) that it will impose new tariffs on Chinese semiconductor imports, however, the enforcement of these duties has been delayed until June 2027. This has essentially provided a significant window for ongoing trade negotiations. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the decision follows a year-long…
It has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In the fourth part of a series looking back at the events of 2025, we examine the impacts of Trump’s foreign policy on global geopolitics. As the administration of US President Donald Trump ends its first year, expect the unabashed disrupter to continue applying…
In 1865, when a British entrepreneur built a demonstration railroad near Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi saw not progress but danger – of disruptions to feng shui, imperial graves and rural order – and had the tracks torn up. Two decades later, when a Chinese-built coal line threatened to steam too close to sacred grounds, Cixi’s…
A bipartisan commission focused on the rule of law and human rights in China is recommending that the US Congress scale up immersion programmes for Mandarin and other languages spoken on the mainland in American high schools and universities. The recommendation, made as part of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s (CECC) annual report, comes as…
President Donald Trump on Monday announced a $12 billion farm aid package aimed at helping producers squeezed by rising costs and shrinking export markets following his decision to raise tariffs on China as part of a broader trade war. Trump unveiled the plan during a White House roundtable with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Agriculture Secretary…
Published on: Dec 04, 2025 02:28 pm IST Putin’s remarks come after a marathon meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as part of the negotiations to end the Ukraine war. Russian President Vladimir Putin said his five-hour talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war in Ukraine were “necessary” and “useful” but also “difficult…
Updated on: Dec 02, 2025 01:48 am IST White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the administration feels “very optimistic,” about the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently said that the Trump administration was “very optimistic” of a deal being reached to end the Russia-Ukraine war, as…
President Trump on Friday said he is ending deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota. The president wrote on his Truth Social platform that he was “terminating effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.” Mr. Trump said, without providing evidence, that “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great…
President Donald Trump’s administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the Republican’s first term that were blocked under former Democratic President Joe Biden. The proposed changes include the elimination of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s…