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Thai authorities said on Thursday they are searching for the people responsible for an attack in the country’s troubled deep south region that killed five…
Current Affairs
US Congress explores new tariffs, sanctions to counter China’s shipbuilding dominance
US lawmakers are examining tariffs, port fees and sanctions targeting China’s shipbuilding industry, as US Congress searches for ways to rebuild America’s severely diminished commercial…
What is Beijing thinking? Why Washington is struggling to understand its rival
After Donald Trump’s high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping in May, the idea of US-China “strategic stability” appeared in readouts from both sides.
While the White House…
Chile hunts for copper buyers beyond China with US$100 billion mining plan
Chile wants to widen the group of countries buying its copper and attract about US$100 billion in mining investment over the next decade, its foreign…
US not getting enough critical minerals from China, Greer says as Xi-Trump meeting looms
Washington is still not receiving sufficient critical mineral exports from China, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday, even as top American and Chinese…
How China and Indonesia can build a truly sturdy partnership
In April 1955, amid the Cold War, 304 representatives across 29 Asian and African nations convened in Bandung, Indonesia, to discuss the principles of a…