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An Invitation, A Rejection, Now What? Trump And Xi Jinping Play Mind Games

December 13, 2024 admin

Washington DC: Sun Tzu, A Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher who lived approximately in the 5th Century BC, is best known for his famous book ‘The Art Of War’. In it, he wrote a proverb well-known to the world even today – “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”. US President-elect Donald Trump…

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Xi Vows To Work With Trump Administration As He Held Final Talks With Biden

November 17, 2024 admin

Lima: Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to work with the incoming US administration of Donald Trump as he held his final talks with outgoing President Joe Biden on conflicts from cyber crime to trade, Taiwan, the South China Sea and Russia. Biden met Xi for about two hours at a hotel where the…

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How The Trump Presidency Will Impact The Global Economy

November 9, 2024 admin

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election – and his threat to impose tariffs on all imports to the United States – highlights an important problem for the global economy. The US is a technological powerhouse, spending more than any other country on research and development and winning more Nobel prizes in the last five…

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Chinese-Controlled Bot Army Tries To Influence US Voters: Microsoft Report

October 23, 2024 admin

An army of Chinese-controlled social media bots is attempting to influence voters in Alabama, Texas and Tennessee, while denigrating Florida Senator Marco Rubio, according to new research published on Wednesday by Microsoft. The operation represents a coordinated interference effort against down ballot races, experts say, in which the fake accounts are denigrating Representative Barry Moore…

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Chinese Hackers Breached US Court Wiretap Systems: Report

October 6, 2024 admin

Chinese hackers accessed the networks of US broadband providers and obtained information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized wiretapping, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Verizon Communications, AT&T and Lumen Technologies are among the telecoms companies whose networks were breached by the recently discovered intrusion, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with…

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U.S. plans to impose major new tariffs on EVs, other Chinese green energy imports

May 11, 2024 admin

President Joe Biden, left, greets China’s President President Xi Jinping in Woodside, Calif., Nov, 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP The Biden administration plans to impose major new tariffs on electric vehicles, semiconductors, solar equipment and medical supplies imported from China, according to a U.S. official and another person familiar with the plan. Tariffs on…

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U.S. imposes curbs on Chinese firms over spy balloon incident

May 10, 2024 admin

The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, U.S. on February 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States added 37 Chinese entities to a trade blacklist on May 9, including some companies accused of supporting a suspected spy balloon that…

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Blinken back in China seeking pressure but also stability

April 24, 2024 admin

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks with U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns with U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai Scott Walker, while attending a basketball game between the Shanghai Sharks and the Zhejiang Golden Bulls at Shanghai Indoor Stadium, in Shanghai, China on April 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Secretary of State…

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China Accuses US Of Hypocrisy Over Joe Biden “Xenophobic” Claims

April 18, 2024 admin

The United States also this week announced a probe into China’s trade practices. Beijng: Beijing on Thursday accused the United States of hypocrisy in response to accusations by President Joe Biden that China is “xenophobic” and “cheating” on trade. “I would like to ask him: are you talking about China or the US itself?” foreign…

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Xi Jinping tells top senator U.S.-China relations impact ‘destiny of mankind’

October 9, 2023 admin

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China-U.S. ties would impact the “destiny of mankind”, as he met with a group of American senators in Beijing. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is the latest high-level American official to go to China as Washington seeks to ease tensions with Beijing, leading a six-person delegation. “How…

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