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China said on Wednesday that if the US wants to resolve ongoing tariff tensions through negotiations, it must stop “threatening” and “coercing” Beijing. “If the US truly wishes to resolve issues through negotiations, it should stop threatening and coercing and engage in talks with China based on equality, mutual respect, and reciprocity,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing, according to the Global Times. Responding to a statement from US President Donald Trump, who said the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods are “very high” and will be “significantly reduced but it won’t be zero,” the spokesperson said:…
There are currently no concrete plans for negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv regarding a potential suspension of strikes on civilian targets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reaffirmed his willingness to discuss the matter, Peskov told a press briefing in Moscow. Any decision on this issue, he added, would take into account the lessons learned from the recent Easter ceasefire. “With regard to civilian infrastructure, it is essential to clearly distinguish situations in which such facilities may be considered military targets and those in which they are not,” Peskov said. The official reiterated Russia’s…
The US Department of Commerce has finalized tariffs as high as 3,403.96% on solar products from four Southeast Asian countries, according to a statement released Monday. The department said final determinations were made in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations involving crystalline photovoltaic cells imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Solar cell and panel imports will face duties varying according to the products’ country of origin with tariffs reaching up to 3,403.96% for Cambodia, 799.55% for Thailand, 542.64% for Vietnam, and 168.80% for Malaysia. The Commerce Department concluded that solar cells and panels from these countries were being sold in…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he hopes Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week to end the conflict in Ukraine. “BOTH WILL THEN START TO DO BIG BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHICH IS THRIVING, AND MAKE A FORTUNE!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Trump recently called on Ukraine and Russia to show willingness to compromise in the war that Russia started when it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. The US government made it clear that it could otherwise halt efforts to end the war.…
China said Monday that it firmly opposes any deal between the US and its trading partners at the expense of Chinese interests amid a barrage of tariffs. If such a situation arises, China will not accept it and will resolutely take corresponding countermeasures, a spokesperson for the Commerce Ministry said in a statement. The remarks came in response to reports that the US is preparing to pressure other countries to limit trade ties with China in exchange for tariff exemptions, Xinhua News reported. A fact sheet released last week by the White House suggested that Chinese exports to the US…
Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement on Monday, ending an often turbulent reign marked by division and tension as he sought to overhaul the hidebound institution. He was 88, and had recently survived a serious bout of double pneumonia. “Dear brothers and sisters, it is with profound sadness I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis,” Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced on the Vatican’s TV channel. “At 7:35 this morning the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father.”
The Kremlin on Monday said it is “satisfied” with the US administration’s position ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. “We have heard from Washington at various levels that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is out of the question. This is something that satisfies us and coincides with our position,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow. Kyiv should have no prospect of integration with the military alliance, Peskov said, adding that Ukrainian membership in NATO would be a threat to Russia’s national interests. “And this is one of the root causes of the conflict (in Ukraine),” he added. Peskov also…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States had very good talks with Iran, two days after the second round of negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Qatar’s chief negotiator voiced frustration over talks for a truce in Gaza in an interview with AFP, a month after Israel resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory and another round of negotiations ended without a deal. “We’re definitely frustrated by the slowness, sometimes, of the process in the negotiation. This is an urgent matter. There are lives at stake here if this military operation continues day by day,” Mohammed Al-Khulaifi said on Friday. Qatar, with the United States and Egypt, brokered a truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas which came into force on January 19 and largely halted…
The United States will reduce the number of troops it has deployed in Syria from around 2,000 to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said on Friday. “Today the secretary of defense directed the consolidation of US forces in Syria… to select locations,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. “This deliberate and conditions-based process will bring the US footprint in Syria down to less than 1,000 US forces in the coming months,” he said. Stressing that in the last 10 years, the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS has made “major gains,” Parnell said US Central…