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“He’s going to run again, all right,” said Bill O’Reilly.

Why Typhoid Trump and COVID are so similar

Given the moveable feast that is Donald Trump’s trade policy, it is impossible to determine if the world is in for a short-lived shock or a case of long COVID.

  • Elizabeth Knight

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New bridge-making barges are believed to give China an advantage if it were to invade Taiwan.

China’s new barges would make invading Taiwan easier and more efficient

China has been practising unusual manoeuvres off its southern coast involving three special barges. Experts say it changes the equation on Beijing’s war readiness.

  • Chris Buckley, Christoph Koettl and Agnes Chang
Boeing will be required to spend at least $US455 million to bolster its compliance and safety programs.

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China has told its domestic airlines not to order Boeing planes or US parts. That will hurt America’s biggest exporter of manufactured goods and could damage China’s own aviation ambitions.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Chinese Xi Jinping arrives in Hanoi on Monday as part of a five-day tour of South East Asia.

Xi’s neighbourly charm offensive touches a raw nerve for Trump

Donald Trump has already hit out at Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam, accusing the two sides of “trying to figure out, ‘How do we screw the United States of America?’ ”

  • Lisa Visentin
Apple has spent decades building a finely calibrated supply chain in China.

The contradictions in Trump’s trade policies are on display

Donald Trump’s exemption of electronic goods from his tariffs highlights the inconsistency, lack of logic and the risks for the US in the way he is pursuing his trade war on everyone.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump’s tariff policies have sent markets on a rollercoaster ride.

Trump’s boosters laud his tariff flip-flop but consumers are not buying it

Every time the president changes direction on tariffs, his lieutenants insist he is following a grand plan. Americans know better.

  • Michael Koziol
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The heavy rare earth metals covered by the export suspension are used in magnets essential for many kinds of electric motors, including EVs.

China halts critical mineral, magnet exports as trade war intensifies

The move threatens to choke off supplies of components central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.

  • Keith Bradsher
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Trump has made his choices to advantage America. We must make ours for Australia

Since World War II, there has been a high degree of alignment between Australia’s national interests and American global leadership. Not any more.

  • Stuart Rollo
Poland’s Radek Sikorski

Ex-war reporter turned foreign minister leading the charge to keep Russia – and China – in check

At a time when Europe’s leadership has been diffuse and distracted, Radek Sikorski has emerged as one of the West’s most forceful voices.

  • Rob Harris
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are engaged in a Godzilla-like scuffle over tariffs.

GFC or UFC? This economic prize-fight has us all on the edge of our seats

Economics is no longer boring. Trump’s decision to pick a fight with China is a heavyweight bout for the ages.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness

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