2 w. ago Trump Sanctions Revive Barter Trade: China's Chery Trades Half

Trump Sanctions Revive Barter Trade: China's Chery Trades Half-Built Cars for Iran's Copper  Yahoo Finance

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3 w. ago Trump revives debunked ‘MedBed’ conspiracy theory in deepfake video

Donald Trump stirred online outrage on Monday after posting an apparent AI-generated video of himself promising every American access to all-healing “MedBed” hospitals, reviving a widely debunked conspiracy theory. The deepfake video – posted on Saturday on the US president’s Truth Social account and later deleted – was styled as a Fox News segment and featured his daughter-in-law Lara Trump promoting a fictitious White House launch of a “historic new healthcare system”. The phoney clip then...

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3 w. ago Did Amelia Earhart spy on Japan? Trump’s declassification order revives mystery

Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a presidential order to declassify every US record on her final, ill-fated flight has sparked a fresh surge of interest in one of aviation’s most enduring enigmas. US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had ordered the declassification of “all records” related to Earhart – but among those who have devoted their lives to the mystery, there was a sense of weary deja vu. The information the US government has on Earhart...

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3 w. ago Will Kim meet Trump again? Hopes grow for ‘surprise encounter’ at Apec

The prospect of a fourth summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is gaining traction ahead of the Apec summit in late October, observers say, amid signs that both sides may be testing the waters for a return to high-level nuclear diplomacy. Speculation intensified after North Korea’s vice-foreign minister, Kim Son‑gyong, travelled to New York last week – the first visit by a senior North Korean diplomat since 2019 – to lead Pyongyang’s delegation at the UN...

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3 w. ago As Apec summit nears, analysts see ‘possibility’ of a fourth Trump

The prospect of a fourth summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is gaining traction ahead of the Apec summit in late October, observers say, amid signs that both sides may be testing the waters for a return to high-level nuclear diplomacy. Speculation intensified after North Korea’s vice-foreign minister, Kim Son‑gyong, travelled to New York last week – the first visit by a senior North Korean diplomat since 2019 – to lead Pyongyang’s delegation at the UN...

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4 w. ago How will Trump revive US shipbuilding after years of protectionist rot?

US hopes of getting China to place big orders of Boeing jets have risen anew after reports of progress, including a framework agreement on TikTok, at the fourth round of trade negotiations in the Spanish capital of Madrid. Praising the progress, US President Donald Trump said he would meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Seoul, which starts at the end of next month, and plans to visit China early next year. But why would China wish to buy US...

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4 w. ago The View | How will Trump revive US shipbuilding after years of protectionist rot?

The View | How will Trump revive US shipbuilding after years of protectionist rot?  South China Morning Post

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