As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an explosive meeting that would reveal deep fissures between Washington and Kyiv, he was also asked by a reporter about another world leader: Vladimir Putin. In the very setting in which he joined forces with Vice…
NewsFeed China’s annual Two Sessions is beginning this week to set out the policy priorities for the rest of the year, including its response to US tariffs. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu says the US Trump administration, the military and global economic uncertainty will be part of the discussions. Published On 5 Mar 20255 Mar 2025…
When President Trump threatened tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China in January, saying those countries needed to do more to stop the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States, Canadian and Mexican officials raced to Washington, bearing charts and videos detailing their efforts to toughen their borders. Canada created a “fentanyl czar” and…
President Trump’s tough talk on China typically centers on tariffs. But a closer look at the decisions he has made since taking office shows that the president is considering a far wider set of economic restrictions on Beijing, ones that could hasten America’s split from a critical trading partner. The Trump administration has so far…
During the Biden administration, Donald J. Trump would sit in his mirrored and gold-trimmed salon at Mar-a-Lago where he had once hosted China’s leader, Xi Jinping, brooding to visitors about the outcome of the trade agreement he signed with China in 2020. Mr. Trump would castigate “stupid people” in the White House for failing to…
Here are the key developments on the 1,083rd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Tuesday, February 11: Fighting A woman was injured and five houses damaged in an overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy, regional official Ihor Kalchenko said. A separate attack on a non-residential…
Beijing responded swiftly on Tuesday to the tariffs President Trump had promised, announcing a fusillade of countermeasures targeting American companies and imports of critical products. Mr. Trump’s 10 percent tariff on all Chinese products went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, the result of an executive order issued over the weekend aimed at pressuring Beijing…
Xi signaled that support for the economy will continue into 2025. China’s gross domestic product is expected to expand around 5% for the full year of 2024, President Xi Jinping said, signaling the world’s second-largest economy is on track to meet its official target.China’s economy was “overall stable and progressing amid stability,” Xi said at…
Chinese leader underscores ‘rapidly evolving changes not seen in a century and the turbulent international situation’. Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to promote “world peace” in a New Year’s message to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. “No matter how the international situation changes, China will remain steadfast in further comprehensively deepening reform … and…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has held his final meeting with his outgoing counterpart in the United States, Democrat Joe Biden. But Xi’s words on Saturday seemed directed not simply at Biden but at his Republican successor, returning President Donald Trump. In his encounter with Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in…
