The Chinese leader meets his US counterpart in a position of strength. But dig into the numbers and it’s a totally different story.
Xi Jinping looks to be in the box seat before his showdown with Donald Trump next week.
The American president is a lame duck after a bruising midterm election defeat. Voters are rebelling against the sprawling data centres powering America’s artificial intelligence ambitions, while Trump’s Middle Eastern war has drained US military resources, damaged Washington’s prestige and left him struggling to find a way out.
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A US trade panel reviewing lamb imports is unable to agree on whether Australian meat imports have hurt the American industry, leaving Donald Trump to rule on tariffs.
President purchased up to $5m of stock before revoking Biden-era rule that limited Nvidia’s ability to sell to China
In the two years since President Donald Trump unveiled a slew of aggressive tariffs on America’s global trading partners, the prospect of stock market backlash has been the biggest restraint on his agenda. The midterms may have just changed that.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned this week after reports of multiple affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy, Alice Huang.
It’s among the documents scrubbed in the past week. You can, however, retrieve it on the Wayback Machine internet archive.
Some Republican state officials are reviving a bid for mail-in voting restrictions for the 2028 election by appealing a court order blocking the Postal Service from carrying out a revised ballot rule.
