The actions signaled the biggest rupture in relations in four months between US & China. Many questioned whether an uneasy economic detente reached over the summer can survive.
The US Justice department announced that Michael Schena, 42, was sentences for conspiring to collect and transmit defence information to authorities in China.
The meeting comes days after Trump spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping in a rare leader-to-leader call amid weeks of brewing trade tensions and a dispute over critical minerals.
China will soon host the 25th meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council, an opportunity it will use to forge business alliances to counter Trump’s tariffs.
In the context of the ongoing geopolitical contestation between the West and China, keeping the US engaged in Ukraine and Gaza will only benefit Beijing in the long run.
Despite raging wars in Europe and West Asia, multiple US govt agencies have made it clear that China’s rise in the Indo-Pacific poses the most significant challenge to America’s global primacy.
Moreover, the report by US-based think tank finds that 8 in every 10 Americans have little or no confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping 'doing the right thing in world affairs'.
Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation is leading Project 2025, which lays down policy recommendations & a 180-day playbook should a Republican candidate clinch the Presidency.
As Park Street now anticipates the Christmas lights, Bangla cinema eyes a harmony. Colliding heritage, devotion and some detective grit, the year-ender comes with a rediscovery.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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