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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicXi Jinping

Topic: Xi Jinping

US-China trade war: Trump announces extra 100% tariff on Beijing

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.

Trump says ‘progress made’ with Xi on TikTok; leaders to meet in six weeks in South Korea

The two leaders held their first call in three months. The US president said he would visit China early next year, while Xi would visit the US later.

‘Show of regional solidarity’—global media’s reading of Modi, Xi, Putin huddle at SCO & Trump factor

Reports weigh in on the significance of Modi's visit to China, what it reveals about Trump's diplomacy & implications for India.

‘Development partners, not rivals,’ say Modi-Xi at meet; PM underlines peace at borders key to growth of ties

Meeting between 2 leaders comes a day before SCO Heads of State Summit in Tianjin, where Modi will meet Putin, Shehbaz Sharif, Erdogan & Ilham Aliyev, too.

Modi meets Xi, to hold bilateral with Putin but summit of Russia-India-China bloc not on agenda

Prime Minister Modi, in China for SCO summit, is in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and will hold a bilateral dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday.

When Apple CEO Tim Cook apologised to China in Mandarin & flew to Beijing for a secret meeting

In 'Apple in China', Patrick McGee analyses how the American tech giant helped build China’s dominance in electronics—and passively cooperated with an authoritarian regime.

Chinese President Xi Jinping signs treaty with Central Asia to boost economic ties

Since Russia’s Ukraine invasion, China has deepened economic ties with Central Asian nations, eyeing their strategic location and rich energy resources.

India-Pakistan conflict is a sandbox for China’s peacekeeping pretensions

For China, Pakistan is not a problem at all – it is an instrument, a conduit for influence, a state useful precisely because of its instability.

Hints of thaw in US-China tariff war—as Trump says duties to ‘come down’, China open to talks

Trump has expressed optimism about reaching a tariff agreement ‘pretty quickly’, while Xi said that tariff & trade wars undermine the legitimate rights and interests of all countries.

Trump’s economic coercion to secure US hegemony feels like it’s 1940s all over again

Through the massive tariffs imposed on China, journalist Will Dunn says, Trump is telling other powers that the price of access to America’s markets is in obedience to America’s rules.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.