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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Amman, Jordan. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

Shutdown strains US diplomacy around the world

16 Jan 2019 - 10:28am 1

The shutdown could also cost the US government more than a billion dollars in lost productivity for 350,000 workers who are forced to stay home. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

Shutdown’s economic damage: US$1 billion a week

10 Jan 2019 - 8:21pm 1

US President Donald Trump’s evolving justifications are taking on new significance now that he is weighing whether to declare a national emergency in a controversial attempt to circumvent Congress and secure the billions of dollars that would be needed to build the barrier. File photo: EPA

United States & Canada

A quick history of Trump’s evolving justifications for a border wall

9 Jan 2019 - 2:33pm 2

US President Donald Trump has embarked on a one-man public-relations effort to sell the shutdown that has left some White House officials scrambling to catch up. Photo: EPA

United States & Canada

Trump wages intense but lonely campaign for his border wall

8 Jan 2019 - 9:50pm 3

Donald Trump struggles to replace James Mattis as Pentagon chief

United States & Canada

Trump struggles to replace Mattis as Pentagon chief

8 Jan 2019 - 12:48pm 7

Economist Nellie Liang would have been the first minority woman to serve on the Fed’s board. File photo: Bloomberg

United States & Canada

Trump nominee Nellie Liang withdraws from Fed board consideration

8 Jan 2019 - 11:03am 1

Despite cautious optimism, economic worries hang over US-China trade talks

Diplomacy

Despite cautious optimisim, economic worries hang over US-China trade talks

7 Jan 2019 - 10:04am 4

Bipartisan US bill seeks to toughen Donald Trump’s approach to China

United States & Canada

Bipartisan US bill seeks to toughen Trump’s approach on China

5 Jan 2019 - 4:09am 11

Donald Trump boasts he ‘essentially’ fired James Mattis

United States & Canada

Trump boasts he ‘essentially’ fired Mattis

3 Jan 2019 - 1:04pm 5

Mitt Romney savages Donald Trump’s leadership in Washington Post op-ed

United States & Canada

Romney savages Trump’s leadership in op-ed

2 Jan 2019 - 11:54am 6

President Donald Trump rarely addresses religious freedom or human rights, and when it comes to China he focuses mainly on Beijing’s trade practices. Photo: AFP

Politics

An ‘atheist’ empire? Trump aides rally evangelicals in China fight

1 Jan 2019 - 9:05pm 45

Former US president Barack Obama called his wife Michelle’s memoir his favourite book of 2018. Photo: AFP

Books

Barack Obama names his wife’s book as his favourite of 2018

1 Jan 2019 - 5:33am 2

How Donald Trump gave away his secret war zone trip

United States & Canada

How Trump gave away his secret war zone trip

27 Dec 2018 - 12:09pm 6

‘Ideological soul mates’: how China sceptic Robert Lighthizer sold Donald Trump on a trade war

Diplomacy

‘Ideological soul mates’: how a China sceptic sold Trump on a trade war

27 Dec 2018 - 6:54am 37

A federal judge ruled BuzzFeed adequately tied the Steele dossier to the ongoing federal investigation by linking to a CNN report on the briefings of Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

Russian entrepreneur’s libel suit against BuzzFeed thrown out

20 Dec 2018 - 12:47pm

It’s becoming increasingly clear Trump can’t have both tariffs and a rising stock market. Photo: AFP

China

Trump can’t have his tariffs and the stock market too

20 Dec 2018 - 1:12am 9

US President Donald Trump President wants lower drug prices, drastic action on the opioid crisis and protection for people with pre-existing conditions. Photo: Bloomberg

United States & Canada

Why Donald Trump still needs Obamacare

18 Dec 2018 - 3:32pm

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on January 19, 2018. Photo: TNS

United States & Canada

Trump names budget office head Mulvaney acting White House chief of staff

15 Dec 2018 - 11:03pm 5

US Senator Joe Lieberman, seen in a 2006 file photo, has been hired by ZTE to conduct an ‘independent’ assessment of the US national security implications of its products. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

China’s ZTE taps Joe Lieberman for Washington damage control

15 Dec 2018 - 4:19pm 3

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, both advisers to US President Donald Trump, tend to favour cosmopolitan political moderates over the kind of hard-core conservative activists who appeal to the president. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

What does it take to become Trump’s chief of staff?

13 Dec 2018 - 4:45pm 4

Nancy Pelosi privately disses Donald Trump’s ‘manhood’ after White House meeting

United States & Canada

Pelosi disses Trump’s ‘manhood’ after White House meeting

12 Dec 2018 - 3:23pm 6

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has down played any negative impact that the arrest of Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, might have on US-China talks. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

Lighthizer says Huawei case ‘totally separate’ from US-China talks

12 Dec 2018 - 8:46pm 24

Former US vice-president Joe Biden has stoked speculation he may run for the White House in 2020. File photo: Bloomberg

United States & Canada

Biden: ‘I’m the most qualified person in the country to be president’

5 Dec 2018 - 11:57am 2

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pay their respects as former president George H.W. Bush lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday. Photo: EPA

United States & Canada

Trump handles Bush’s death with abnormal normality

4 Dec 2018 - 12:36pm 13

G20 leaders reaffirm ‘rules-based international order’

Diplomacy

G20 leaders reaffirm ‘rules-based international order’

2 Dec 2018 - 2:47pm 16

Wilbur Ross, US commerce secretary, left out of G20 activities

United States & Canada

Wilbur Ross, US commerce secretary, left out of G20 activities

1 Dec 2018 - 6:21am 4

Donald Trump trashed Mike Pompeo’s new aide as a ‘major loser’

United States & Canada

Trump trashed new Pompeo aide as a ‘major loser’

28 Nov 2018 - 12:52pm 1

As Donald Trump’s so-called ‘body man’, an aide who accompanies the president on travel and looks after his personal needs, Jordan Karem is often the first aide Trump sees in the morning and the last to see him at night. Photo: AFP

United States & Canada

Trump’s trusted ‘body man’ to depart White House

27 Nov 2018 - 2:29pm

Democrats going nuclear to rein in Donald Trump’s arms build-up

United States & Canada

Democrats going nuclear to rein in Trump’s arms build-up

25 Nov 2018 - 2:44pm 3

Who’s coming and going in Donald Trump’s Cabinet

Europe

Who’s coming and going in Donald Trump’s Cabinet

21 Nov 2018 - 2:17pm

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer takes part in a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in August. Photo: AFP

Diplomacy

Lighthizer: China has not corrected actions that led to tariffs

21 Nov 2018 - 9:19pm 33

Race to watch: Peas and Carrots vie for presidential turkey pardon

United States & Canada

A turkey will be pardoned at the White House

20 Nov 2018 - 12:41pm

Donald Trump’s landmark Mexico-Canada trade deal hits trouble in Congress

United States & Canada

Landmark Trump trade deal hits trouble in Congress

19 Nov 2018 - 11:02am 4

US President Donald Trump referred to Vice-President Mike Pence as ‘a trooper’ who has ‘already been tested, in many ways’. Photo: EPA

United States & Canada

Trump disputes report that he asked aides about Pence’s loyalty

18 Nov 2018 - 12:01pm 2

Minnesota soybean farmer Michael Petefish stands inside a bin with his crops in July. Photo: AP

China

Report points to ‘difficult and worrying’ 2019 for US agriculture

16 Nov 2018 - 11:36am 2

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

How will Trump take Amazon’s move to Washington?

14 Nov 2018 - 4:06pm 4

Experts predict that US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss trade and tariffs, climate change, immigration, and relations with Russia. File photo: AFP

United States & Canada

‘King of the world’ Trump to ditch US for Paris after midterms

6 Nov 2018 - 1:30pm 3

An 1894 notarised statement by witnesses attesting to the identity of Wong Kim Ark. A photograph of Wong is affixed to the statement. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Diplomacy

The Chinese-American whose Supreme Court case changed the country

1 Nov 2018 - 7:08pm 5

As a freewheeling president in one of the world’s most regimented jobs, Donald Trump appears to be redefining the nature of the role. Photo: Reuters

United States & Canada

A Trump workday with 9 hours of ‘Executive Time’

1 Nov 2018 - 2:04am 8

The Qualcomm Inc. booth at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai in Shanghai, China, in June. Photo: Bloomberg

United States & Canada

China rattles Washington’s tech debates

28 Oct 2018 - 10:27am 61

Treaty that limits number of nuclear weapons will expire in 2021 unless Trump and Putin agree to extend it

United States & Canada

Nuclear fears: last US-Russia arms pact could ‘simply die’

24 Oct 2018 - 1:05pm 1

America’s nuclear treaty ultimatum is as much about China as it is Russia

United States & Canada

Chinese missile build-up has also strained US-Russia arms pact

23 Oct 2018 - 11:22am 6

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

United States & Canada

US Treasury secretary says he won’t go to Saudi conference

19 Oct 2018 - 5:31am 2

In an unusually outspoken attack, two top US officials made clear that Donald Trump was growing frustrated with Europe’s foot-dragging over a promised trade deal

Europe

Juncker and Trump’s transatlantic trade truce falters

18 Oct 2018 - 8:52am 11

The US Treasury Department said in a report released Wednesday that Beijing was not intentionally devaluing its currency. Photo: Reuters

China

Treasury sends warning shot to China on currency

18 Oct 2018 - 6:22am 14

The headwinds heading China’s way are unmistakable, particularly with Donald Trump, at right, threatening to up the tariff ante. Photo: AP

Insight & Opinion

How Trump’s trade war is driving China nuts

17 Oct 2018 - 12:30am 61

Meanwhile, Pentagon reporters have complained they were not receiving information they need to keep the public informed about US military activities

United States & Canada

Actor Gerard Butler gives press briefing at Pentagon about new movie

16 Oct 2018 - 9:13am