With a sanctions waiver in place, India has in the last two months aggressively stepped up purchases of Russian crude oil. (AI image) In a U-turn on its earlier decision, the Donald Trump administration has extended the sanctions waiver on purchase of Russian crude oil at sea. The move comes two days after the earlier…
As the leaders of the world’s two largest economies meet in Beijing this week, a new analysis underscores a growing divergence between China and the United States in shaping the global energy system. While Chinese companies continue to expand their dominance of clean energy industries, the data shows, their American counterparts are withdrawing from those…
The US acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Sunday said that the gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself. US Secret Service agents surround President Donald Trump before he was taken from…
A US clampdown on visas for mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students last May led to year-on-year declines of 42 per cent and 35 per cent in the number of permits granted, but a consultant has said the impact has been short-lived. One PhD student from the mainland said US President Donald Trump’s actions had…
The Trump Administration said recently that China conducted a nuclear explosive test and tried to conceal it from the world. The press doubts the story and insists President Trump is courting nuclear war if he tests America’s nuclear arsenal. So credit the Administration for adding details to the record and educating the public about the…
Contours of an interim trade deal between India and the United States may have been the headline on Saturday morning, but there was a single image that did a lot of talking — a map of India used by Donald Trump’s trade representative’s office on X. US map of India in trade deal shows entire…
Bitcoin slid to US$74,541 on Monday morning, its lowest level in 10 months, extending a decline of about 40 per cent from its record high above US$126,000. That peak had been fuelled in part by expectations of a more crypto-friendly stance from the Trump administration. Other major tokens also weakened, with Ethereum down more than…
The United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday, a year after President Donald Trump ordered the exit. ‘Messy divorce’: US walks away from WHO leaving unpaid tab of about $260 million (File photo) The move ends all US participation in the UN health agency but leaves behind an…
BERLIN—President Trump’s ambitions on Greenland have drawn blowback from the very parties that had most enthusiastically embraced his populist revolution. Nigel Farage, head of the populist Reform UK party, called Trump’s Greenland takeover bid a ‘very hostile act.’ In responses ranging from delicately calibrated to brusque, nationalist and antiestablishment figures from the U.K. to France,…
US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will now allow Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to be sold to China, but only under strict conditions including a 25% government cut on sales and export caps designed to protect US supply. For those unaware, H200 is part of Nvidia’s Hopper generation which is a hit-performance…