Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden has said he is considering whether to drop tariffs on China and plans to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping. While Biden might have a deal to offer Beijing, unless the US is willing to stop hollowing out its ‘one-China’ commitment, he may not make much headway.

Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler paid his first visit to Türkiye since the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate.

Tai says removing the duties is likely to have a limited effect on inflation, indicating she is pushing for the president to maintain tariff pressure on Beijing.

China has the power to take countermeasures against Washington’s ‘arbitrary’ forced labour law, including imposing its own trade bans and suing the US at the World Trade Organization, experts say.

The US Senate took an initial step towards passing the country’s first major gun-control legislation in decades, galvanised by two recent mass shootings.

Former Chinese officials say Beijing must ‘consider’ neighbouring nations who have signed onto Washington’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, despite growing rivalry with the United States.

As debate rages on whether the US is shifting away from its long-standing policy on Taiwan, sparked by Biden’s apparent gaffes, Beijing will prepare itself for the worst-case scenario of a military conflict. And it won’t make the same mistakes Russia is making in Ukraine.

Besieged PM Naftali Bennett will be replaced by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid until new polls can be held.

Even though the Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act does not take effect until Tuesday, traders in China’s Xinjiang region say losses have been mounting for months, as buyers shun what was once prized as the world’s most expensive cotton.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said China ‘engages in range of unfair trade practices’ but ‘the tariffs we inherited, some serve no strategic purpose’.

Citizens across the country are marking ‘Juneteenth’, the June 19, 1865 end of the legal enslavement of black Americans.

‘I’m good,’ Biden told reporters after US Secret Service agents quickly helped him up. ‘I got my foot caught’ in the toe cages.

US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to roll out the vaccines to the under-5 age groups as early as next week.

Biden said he would be talking to Xi and was ‘in the process’ of making a decision about the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese imports.

The US President will have a bilateral meeting with King Salman and his team next month, which will include crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.

If the IPEF seems to offer little to its Southeast Asian members, that’s because it was never really meant to. Instead, the framework is another attempt to bring India into the Western fold while positioning it more strategically in the Indo-Pacific trade network.

Washington DC’s local government changed street signs in honour of the Saudi dissident who was strangled to death and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

A world in chaos as a result of war in Ukraine and the pandemic does not need another crisis, which the US threatens to create by pushing its China agenda in Asia. Washington officials need to shake off their outmoded Cold War mindset in which China is seen as a ‘systemic rival’ – or risk a global catastrophe.

The package includes anti-ship and artillery launchers, as well as additional ammunition for rocket systems.

The US President will visit Saudi Arabia in mid-July for a scheduled summit, where he is expected to table a “national security programme” for Israel and eight Arab states, to integrate their militaries into an alliance against Iran.

US President Joe Biden confirmed that he will visit Saudi Arabia next month for talks with its leaders, a dramatic change in his stance on the kingdom.

Centre for Strategic and International Studies panellists from Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia discuss speeding pharmaceutical production and trade with US.

Members of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against the former US president for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

While US President Joe Biden’s remarks on defending Taiwan militarily have sparked a flurry of commentary, they are consistent with the Taiwan Relations Act. However, given the wide range of potential scenarios in the event of military action by Beijing or a blockade, no one truly knows how the US would respond.

The new proposals include tougher background checks for gun buyers under the age of 21 and cracking down on illegal gun purchases.

One Ukrainian official said Biden’s words were “not quite true”, while another stated that the phrase “did not want to hear” probably needs “clarification”.