3 d. ago Trump offers more US troops to Poland’s nationalist president

US President Donald Trump hosted new Polish President Karol Nawrocki on Wednesday at the White House with a military flyover and an offer to send more US troops to the eastern European ally. Talks were expected to focus on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, where Trump’s peacemaking efforts have been struggling to get traction. Trump called it a “stupid war” and said he thought ending it would have been “much easier” for him. “It’s going to get done,” he vowed to reporters in the Oval Office,...

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2 w. ago ‘It’s their continent’: Vance tells Europe to take lead on Ukraine’s security

US Vice-President J.D. Vance said on Wednesday that European countries will have to take the “lion’s share” of the burden of Ukraine’s security guarantees as Washington tries to broker a peace deal between Kyiv and Russia. “I don’t think we should carry the burden here. I think that we should be helpful if it’s necessary to stop the war and to stop the killing. But I think that we should expect, and the president certainly expects, Europe to play the leading role here,” Vance told Fox News’ The...

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2 w. ago Top mathematician Zhang says he left US for China due to political climate

Mathematician Zhang Yitang, who joined Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou from California in June, has called the wave of Chinese researchers exiting the US a “positive trend”. Zhang, known for his prime number research, told Phoenix TV, a partially state-owned broadcaster, in a programme aired on Monday that he had been thinking about returning to the mainland “in light of recent international political issues that have strained China-US relations”. The Shanghai native, 70, is now a full...

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3 w. ago Chinese tourists flock to artificial wave pool, raising safety concerns

Hundreds of visitors flocked to an artificial wave pool in northern China to beat the heat, sparking safety concerns online.

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3 w. ago Global investors pivot to China’s US$25 trillion bond market amid de

Global investors’ search for alternatives to US-dollar assets is driving more capital into China’s domestic bond market, according to UBS. A new wave of increased allocations to the Chinese bond market had just begun and was expected to continue if the trend of de-dollarisation continued, said Raymond Gui, Asia head of fixed-income portfolio management in the Swiss bank’s asset-management arm. UBS launched its first yuan-denominated bond fund in 2018. Foreign investors, mostly institutional...

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4 w. ago Europe is expecting a wave of Chinese tourists. Should it thank Donald Trump?

Europe is basking in summer, with sunny skies, high temperatures – and a surge in Chinese tourists. Despite lingering challenges such as visa requirements and reduced airline capacity due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the continent’s tourism industry is hopeful that 2025 could mark the highest number of Chinese visitors since the Covid-19 pandemic. “We’re pretty optimistic. I work at the centre of Brussels and we see a lot of Chinese. I hear Mandarin everywhere,” said Ludivine Destrée, senior...

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