Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White House’s top technology adviser defended the move in the administration’s first public testimony discussing the latest export control measures. Allowing China…
The US has officially green-lighted Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips in China, as the Trump administration seeks to strike a balance between curtailing China’s AI progress and maintaining American AI firms’ global market share. The H200, US chip giant Nvidia’s second-most-advanced AI processor, can be shipped to China under conditions that include…
The killing of activist Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents working on federal orders from President Donald Trump, has sparked a series of protests across the country. Civil liberties and migrant-rights groups have called for nationwide rallies on Saturday, while state authorities have…
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…