Following our earlier coverage of Barclays senior China economist Yingke Zhou's view that Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit delivered "more signaling, less substance," attention turns to Taiwan, where Xi pressed President Donald Trump to oppose
I am in Washington this week. Yesterday afternoon Marine One flew over on its way to Joint Base Andrews, with the President on board to meet Xi Jinping's plane in person.
Following our earlier coverage of Barclays senior China economist Yingke Zhou's view that Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit delivered "more signaling, less substance," attention turns to Taiwan, where Xi pressed President Donald Trump to oppose
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President Trump's emissaries shuttled from Moscow to Kyiv seeking a way to end the Ukraine war. Afterward, Trump negotiator Jared Kushner explained, "…the hardest issue is still territory." That dispute centers on Crimea and Donbas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that US President Donald Trump told him he had made the 'final decision' to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot air defence system's interceptor missiles.
A couple years ago, I sat down with Victor Davis Hanson for a conversation that has since been viewed more than five million times. So, naturally, I invited him back to see if we could ruin a perfectly good thing. We failed.
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German automakers announce 100,000 job cut. Germany's largest union concludes German auto industry "faces the risk of total collapse" from the energy shortage caused by Trump's "Russian sanctions" and war against Iran for Israel.
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that about 750,000 people on Affordable Care Act plans were never entitled to the coverage, and that pulling their subsidies will save taxpayers $2.2 billion.