Rubio's meeting with Yi comes amid escalating friction globally over President Trump’s tariffs offensive, with China warning the US against reinstating hefty levies on its goods next month.
Threatened by US sanctions and restrictive trade policies, Japan sought to secure its access to resources in the Indo-Pacific. This led to its attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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.
China has put Illumina on its ‘unreliable entity list’ after the US imposed sanctions on Beijing Genomics Institute, also a global giant making genome sequencing equipment.
Donald Trump has been vocal about India’s high import tariffs and has threatened retaliation. Simultaneously, his tough stand on China could see Chinese goods flood India.
US president Joe Biden & his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held ‘most constructive discussions’ at summit amid backdrop of trade war & ties between the 2 nations reaching nadir in decades.
China has announced export controls on graphite days after US instituted curbs on semiconductor chips. Countries like India, in process of transitioning to green energies, to be affected.
In latest move, China put export curbs on 2 chipmaking minerals. Experts say long-term impact of such tactics will be less on markets and more on geopolitics of global supply chains.
Armani built a multibillion-dollar global brand from something as simple as an unstructured jacket, and broke down the walls between formal and casual.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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