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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says upcoming U.S.-China talks will tackle a top Biden administration complaint that Beijing’s economic model and trade practices put American companies and workers at an unfair competitive disadvantage By FATIMA HUSSEIN and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press April 5, 2024, 11:27 PM ET • 4 min read GUANGZHOU, China — U.S. […]
ATTARAT, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s Attarat power plant was envisioned as a landmark project promising to provide the desert kingdom with a major source of energy while solidifying its relations with China. But weeks after its official opening, the site, a sea of black, crumbly rock in the barren desert south of Jordan’s capital, is […]
I bought a paperback version of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker nearly 50 years ago when I was a young law school dropout sick of living in the traffic-wracked New York City that Robert Moses, the subject of the book, created. Like many others, I placed the book prominently on my bookshelf and left it […]
China will “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwan from declaring independence, the country’s defence minister has vowed in a speech amid his counterparts from other countries including the United States. “We will fight at all cost and we will fight to the very end. This is the only choice for
SEOUL — Neither President Biden nor other American officials are going, but the Russian leader might. New Zealand says it decided months ago that its diplomats wouldn’t be attending. On Wednesday, Australia said its officials would be staying home, too. Political leaders of other nations are expected to bow out, whether they announce an explicit […]
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