https://www.scmp.com/rss/522337/feed The US administration, primarily referring to the executive branch, is the governmental body responsible for governing the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., its core mission involves implementing the President’s vision, improving citizens’ quality of life, and ensuring national security and economic stability. Key activities include policy implementation, public service provision, financial management and regulating various sectors. It oversees federal agencies, manages the... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Steven Okun Steven Okun In his farewell address, then US president Ronald Reagan advocated for the United States to do “a better job of getting across that America is freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare”. The Trump administration should follow Reagan’s advice as it designs global celebrations for the country’s 250th anniversary. The US should showcase its founding principles of equality, pluralism, freedom of speech and religious liberty. It should... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3344465/250-us-should-promote-its-values-asia-not-spectacle?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3344465/250-us-should-promote-its-values-asia-not-spectacle?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:30:06 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump threatened to hit French wines and champagnes with 200 per cent tariffs in an apparent effort to cajole French President Emmanuel ‍Macron into joining his Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts. Trump’s initiative, which would start by addressing Gaza and then expand to deal with other conflicts, raises questions about the role of the United Nations and a source close to Macron said the French president intended to decline the invitation to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3340517/trump-threatens-200-wine-tariff-push-france-join-board-peace?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3340517/trump-threatens-200-wine-tariff-push-france-join-board-peace?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:21:54 +0000 Reuters Reuters A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard soldiers in Illinois, five days after another US judge blocked a similar deployment in Portland, Oregon. US District Judge April Perry said that permitting Guard troops in the state would only “add fuel to the fire”, after hearing more than two hours of arguments from lawyers for the US government and the state of Illinois, which sued the Trump administration over the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328447/us-judge-blocks-trumps-deployment-national-guard-illinois?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328447/us-judge-blocks-trumps-deployment-national-guard-illinois?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:43:00 +0000 Denise Tsang,Ambrose Li Denise Tsang,Ambrose Li Hong Kong’s economy will expand by between 2 and 3 per cent this year as previously forecast despite worsening geopolitics, with a robust local stock market, stabilised property sector and rising wages sustaining further growth, the government has said. The Census and Statistics Department said on Friday that economic growth for the second quarter was 3.1 per cent, in line with its advanced estimate. The figure was about the same as first-quarter growth of 3 per cent year on year. Acting... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3322008/hong-kong-economy-forecast-grow-2-3-2025-despite-us-tariffs-geopolitics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3322008/hong-kong-economy-forecast-grow-2-3-2025-despite-us-tariffs-geopolitics?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:04:23 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chair and CEO Lisa Su said that the integrated circuits her company gets from supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) cost more when these are produced in the chipmaker’s Arizona facilities. Compared with similar parts from factories in Taiwan, the US chips will be “more than 5 per cent but less than 20 per cent” in terms of higher costs, she said at an artificial intelligence (AI) event in Washington on Wednesday. AMD expects its first chips from... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3319386/amds-lisa-su-sees-chips-tsmcs-arizona-plant-costing-5-20-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3319386/amds-lisa-su-sees-chips-tsmcs-arizona-plant-costing-5-20-more?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:03:10 +0000 Nicholas Spiro Nicholas Spiro US President Donald Trump’s administration has Asia’s economies in its sights. The region has become more trade-dependent since the 2018-19 US-China trade war. Asia ex-China’s trade surplus with the US doubled from September 2019 to US$400 billion at the end of last year. However, it is not just the widening trade imbalance that has incurred the Trump administration’s wrath. The surge in Asian, particularly Southeast Asian, exports to the US was accompanied by a sharp increase in Chinese imports... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3318955/what-does-trumps-transshipment-crackdown-mean-asian-industrial-property?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3318955/what-does-trumps-transshipment-crackdown-mean-asian-industrial-property?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:30:51 +0000