China explores export limit to placate Trump
Chinese officials weigh Japan’s 1980s strategy – restraining exports while charging more – for products such as electric vehicles or batteries.
Donald Trump's America
‘Sign the deal’: Ukraine minerals row fuels Trump’s war of words
The Trump administration is insisting Ukraine hand mineral rights worth hundreds of billions of dollars, after Zelensky’s initial rejection of the demand fuelled Trump’s broadsides against him.
Trump jolts Taiwan with ‘cold reality’ of realpolitik as US cuts Ukraine
There is a sense of shock among senior Taiwanese officials as they watch the President of their most important security backer America give Ukraine a lesson in the ‘cold reality’ of international relations.
Zelensky ‘not a dictator’ says Trump ally Farage
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK advised that while Donald Trump should always be taken seriously, he shouldn’t always be taken literally.
McConnell to step down after 40 years in US Senate
The veteran senator has had a decades-long career marked by brass-knuckled tactics in crafting a conservative Supreme Court as well as repeated tangles with President Trump.
Election Commentary
ANALYSIS
How Apple’s Cook cracked the code on working with Trump
The election is leading to a return of personal lobbying by CEOs, hoping to develop ties with the new administration; Cook’s one-topic meals.
COMMENTARY
Trump’s picks will be agents of vital change
Many US voters see the pre-Covid Trump era as a time of prosperity and record employment of African-Americans. They are willing to give their new President a fair shot at the job.
INQUIRER
War and appeasement: why a deal with Putin will backfire
US president-elect Donald Trump’s idea to negotiate a swift end to the Ukraine war is unrealistic.
US POLITICS
Billionaire’s simple pitch for Treasury
When Scott Bessent, a billionaire Wall Street mogul, was asked to advise Donald Trump on economic policy, he had a simple answer: 3-3-3.
COMMENTARY
Four more years of Trump may make America normal again
Donald Trump’s election win is an Emperor’s New Clothes event for America, an overdue recognition and repudiation of the regime of oppressive insanities we have been subjected to for a decade or more.
OPINION
How Trump can help Ukraine win
He could sway Putin by mobilising the $300 billion in Russian money frozen in Western banks.
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How Putin flattered and deceived five US presidents
US leaders have come and gone while Russia’s autocratic leader maintains his grip on power.
‘I love King Charles’: Trump likes idea of US joining Commonwealth
Suggestions that Britain will invite America to be an associate member of the group of nations have been welcomed by the president.
Warship shows why US Navy is falling behind China
A blizzard of design changes by the military have put production of USS Constellation years behind schedule and millions over budget. Labour shortages, old equipment and rising steel costs aren’t helping the industry.
Musk to receive top-secret briefing on US war plans for China
Elon Musk is to receive a briefing on the US military’s top-secret war plans for China, according to two US officials.
Trump pauses $US175m to Penn over trans swimmer
The Trump administration will withhold $US175m from the university for allowing a transgender athlete to compete on the women’s swim team.
Greenpeace may leave US after $US660m fine for pipeline protests
Greenpeace has been ordered to pay more than $US660m in damages relating to its protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Judges become targets in combative political environment
Having taken the White House and congress, Donald Trump’s movement is unleashing its fury on the branch of government it doesn’t control: the judiciary.
Judge defied: Trump deports gang members
The Trump administration has deported alleged Venezuelan gang members despite a court order that blocked it from doing so.
Canadian PM Mark Carney orders review of deal to buy US F-35 jets
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has ordered a review of a deal worth tens of billions of dollars to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US.
Judge blocks Trump’s use of wartime act for deportations
The US President had looked to the Alien Enemies Act to help speed up the pace for removing migrants.
Trump dismantles programs, including Voice of America
President Donald Trump has ordered the dismantling of seven government offices, including the parent of Voice of America.
Trump makes political show of force in Justice Department visit
US president takes a victory lap at agency that twice indicted him, vowing to avenge ‘wrongs and abuses’ and to expel enemies.
Launch to space station opens way to return ‘stranded’ astronauts
A Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon atop blasted off, but the focus of its arrival at the International Space Station is the long overdue return of NASA duo Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
US Senate passes bill averting shutdown, after critical boost from Democrats
Chuck Schumer takes heavy criticism from fellow Democrats for backing GOP measure, which he called the better of two bad options.
‘Never, ever’: New PM rejects Trump threat to make Canada part of US
Mark Carney launched his term as Canada’s 24th prime minister with a wholehearted rejection of the US president’s repeated threats to annex his northern neighbour.
UK royals back Canada in discreet show of medals, music and red
The Palace makes a point of staying apolitical but nevertheless has found ways to express solidarity with the Commonwealth nation in the face of Donald Trump’s antics.
Canadian provincial leader going toe-to-toe with Trump
Ontario’s Doug Ford once called the president a ‘marketing genius,’ and now he blasts his tariff plans.
How foundation and eyeliner became a political battleground
Appearance-based insults are becoming more common, all the way up to the Capitol Building.
Putin doing what anyone else would, says Trump
Hopes for a ceasefire rest on Saudi Arabia talks between Ukraine’s President Zelensky and US officials next week, after the proposed minerals deal stalled.
Opportunist or sycophant? JD Vance is both
The Vice-President is a ubiquitous agent provocateur who has done more in 45 days than Kamala Harris did in four years.
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