UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China | Sheffield Hallam University

A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal. In February, Sheffield... Read more »

Buying Chinese Brands: The Three Keys

The Punchline Up Front Tom wired the money on Friday. By Monday, the factory had registered a near clone of his mark in a subclass he had never checked. It then threatened... Read more »

Trump and Takaichi: The Unexpected Love Affair

It was a pleasant autumn day in Tokyo on October 28, when Trump first met Japan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗). Takaichi welcomed Trump at the State Guest House as her... Read more »

Telegraph sale in turmoil after lead bidder linked to China’s politburo | Telegraph Media Group

The sale of the Telegraph Media Group has been thrown into fresh turmoil after the company’s own newspaper linked its presumed new owner to the suspected ringleader of the alleged Chinese spy... Read more »

Trump-Xi meeting: US president says rare earths deal and tariff cut agreed | Donald Trump

Donald Trump has described crucial trade talks with the Chinese president in South Korea as “amazing”, saying their dispute over the supply of rare earths had been settled and that he would... Read more »

The president who cried tariffs: will the US supreme court challenge Trump’s trade war? | Trump tariffs

Donald Trump thrives on emergencies. He cried havoc on the very first day of his second term, declaring a national emergency caused by an “invasion” of “illegal aliens” from Mexico. He has... Read more »

Trump directs Pentagon to match Russia and China in nuclear weapons testing | Donald Trump

Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China. In a post to Truth Social, Trump said... Read more »

Five key takeaways from Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping | Donald Trump

As Donald Trump flew out of Busan airport in South Korea after his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, the US president sounded upbeat about progress made during less than two hours of... Read more »

Radio Free Asia suspends news operations amid cuts and US government shutdown | Trump administration

Radio Free Asia (RFA) has said it is suspending its news operations due to the US government shutdown and the Trump administration’s cuts to government-funded news services. “RFA has been forced to... Read more »

Xi Jinping’s moment and whirlwind diplomatic tours: key takeaways from the Apec summit in South Korea | Apec summit

1. After Trump went awol, this was Xi’s moment Having dominated the headlines for several days during visits to Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, Donald Trump flew back to Washington on the... Read more »