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When Chinese leader Xi Jinping inserted a reference to “twists and turns” in his relationship with President Donald Trump in the opening remarks of their summit this week, he could hardly have imagined the twist that came minutes before the talks began. Writing from Marine One, which was gliding toward the airport in South Korea […]
Barack Obama has said the US is in the middle of a “tug of war” between two visions of the future, criticising progressives for becoming “smug” and “complacent” while populists pushed a conservative vision. The former US president said on one side was the progressive view in which change comes through democracy, while the other, […]
The married CEO who was filmed at a Coldplay concert in the US with his arms around his company’s HR head in a video that went viral has now resigned, the company Astronomer said on Saturday. In a post on Linkedin, the software startup said: “Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of […]
Asked if he wanted to see further sanctions against Russia, Trump replied: “I’m looking at it.” On Monday he said he was “disappointed” with Russia’s president and would send “more weapons” to Ukraine, reversing the Pentagon’s pause. Russian authorities claimed a Ukrainian drone attack on a beach in Kursk city killed three people, including a […]
As he takes office, Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, faces a delicate test: dealing with a Russia willing to flex its muscle on its eastern flank, and with an American president intent on making NATO allies bear more of the burden for their own defense. Squeezed by the two sides, Mr. Merz has been trying […]
Hong Kong CNN — The Trump administration’s move to bar Harvard University from enrolling international students has ricocheted across China, with officials and commentators seeing it through one lens: the growing rivalry between Washington and Beijing. “China has consistently opposed the politicization of educational collaboration,” a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said Friday, adding that […]
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Getty Images With the meteoric rise of Nvidia, chief executive Jensen Huang has been nicknamed a tech “rock star” and the ‘Taylor Swift of tech’ Computer chip giant Nvidia has once again found itself at the centre of US-China tensions over trade and technology. On Thursday Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang flew to Beijing to […]
There is only one building in North America, probably in the world, where one can browse bestsellers and children’s books by crossing an international border and then sit for an amateur theatre troupe in a regal opera house with each half of your body in two different countries. Standing near the Tomifobia River, a rushing […]
Few in the sport have experienced the rapid evolution of American hockey as up close and personally as Mike Modano. Growing up just outside Detroit, Modano was a minor hockey star. He spent his junior years in the WHL in Prince Albert, Sask., which was at that time the highest level available to American teenagers. […]