Experts widely believe Xi Jinping has ambitions to make the land grab beyond 2028, after the Chinese president won another term as the country’s leader. A military attempt to capture Taiwan by China’s People’s Liberation Army could well put them in direct contact with the US armed forces. This is why there is a growing…
Elon Musk has reignited his long-running feud with Jeff Bezos by claiming the Amazon founder had urged people to sell stock in the Tesla boss’s firms because Donald Trump was going to lose. Writing on X, the world’s richest man said: “Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would…
Xi Jinping has put the fate of his country and regime in the hands of others, especially the next leader of the country he considers an enemy, the United States. Yes, China’s ruler, who many consider the world’s most powerful figure, is, in reality, helpless. How did that happen? In short, Xi did it to…
Since the primary race ended in March, Ms Haley has taken a job as the Walter P. Stern Chair at the Hudson Institute, a Right-leaning Washington think tank. In May, she used her inaugural address to criticise isolationists in the Republican Party ─ although she did not name Mr Trump. “They believe if we leave…
Ms Alinejad, meanwhile, had a distrust of authority at a young age, reportedly being expelled from secondary school for challenging its religious teachings before she headed to Tehran to become a journalist. She was catapulted to fame as a reporter in the Iranian parliament, questioning powerful men in a country where women do not have…
Mr Trump has previously said he will end the Russia-Ukraine war on his first day in office, but has provided few details on how he will achieve this. One plan that he is thought to be considering involves using British and European troops to enforce an 800-mile buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian armies. Ukraine…
Elon Musk dispatched an “emergency squad” to Pennsylvania to secure last-minute votes on Election Day. The billionaire tech mogul’s America PAC is targeting would-be Trump voters who filed their initial ballots with errors, meaning they would be rejected in the final count. It is a highly expensive and unusual tactic, but could yield the small…
Both the SNL and Fallon skits featured the real and mock politicians staring at each other through a mirror. Ms Harris used the primetime appearance to poke fun at Trump, days after a viral video showed him struggling to climb into a garbage truck in Wisconsin while wearing an orange fluorescent safety vest. In a pep…
The White House later pushed back, issuing a transcript of Mr Biden’s remarks that included a longer quote and an apostrophe that suggested he had misspoken. The White House later said that Mr Biden was specifically referring to Tony Hinchcliffe, the individual who made the “garbage” comment, releasing a transcript which put an apostrophe between…
With both Trump and Ms Harris neck-and-neck in the polls, the decision to not endorse a candidate by the Post has been seen by some as a move to protect Mr Bezos’s business interests. Sir William Lewis, the Post’s chief executive, wrote online that the newspaper would not endorse any candidates in future elections. “We…