Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, and dictator Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrived in China over the weekend on a state visit to improve bilateral trade and mend diplomatic fences, even as he insisted his government wants to diversify its supply chains and “increase our relationships with other countries in the region.”
A man who has claimed to be the world’s oldest marathon runner has died at 114 years of age after being hit by a car.
President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Indonesia on Monday, eight days after he announced a 32 percent tariff on the nation, set to take effect on August 1.
According to the always-dubious data released by the Chinese Communist government, China’s economy grew by 5.2 percent in the second quarter of 2025, which is slower than its 5.4 percent growth in the first quarter, but better than the 5.1 percent growth projected by analysts.
Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), the newly appointed Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Environment, introduced the Securing America’s Mineral Supply (SAMS) Act to codify executive orders issued by President Donald Trump aimed at revitalizing U.S. critical mineral production and ending reliance on the Chinese Communist Party for essential resources.
China’s customs agency on Monday released data that showed trade between China and Russia slipped by 9.1 percent to $106.48 billion in the first half of 2025.
China’s state propaganda newspaper Global Times described “widespread disappointment” in Shanghai this weekend following a concert by American rapper Kanye West, who has attempted to rehabilitate his career in the past six months by performing in China.
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) posted its lowest polling numbers since 2012 on Monday, a grim omen of the ruling party’s fortunes heading into this Sunday’s elections for the upper house of the National Diet, the Japanese parliament.
During Monday’s broadcast of FBN’s “Mornings with Maria,” Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang urged Western nations to be more assertive in their dealings with China.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov concluded a visit to Pyongyang on Monday that included engagements with communist dictator Kim Jong-un and a vow that North Korea would offer “unconditional” support for the invasion of Ukraine.
Largest-ever war-fighting drills in Australia, Exercise Talisman Sabre, are underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spies.
James Gunn’s “Superman” laid an egg this weekend in China despite the director’s fawning over the communist nation while promoting the film, that played in over 55,000 Middle Kingdom screens.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese kicked off a visit this weekend to China meant to shore up trade relations between the two countries.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the secretive country and key Moscow ally.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, their first meeting in person since Rubio took office.
Australia, which passed a first-of-its-kind ban on social media for children under 16 in December, will soon require search engines to check the age of users before responding to their queries.
Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia’s “cultural diplomacy” agency Rossotrudnichestvo, said on Tuesday that his government plans to launch a foreign aid and development program modeled on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – the agency the Trump administration folded into the State Department due to its profligate spending.
Chinese vape companies that manufacture disposable e-cigarettes are on pace to avoid more than $2 billion in tariffs on these goods in 2025.
Director James Gunn’s “Superman reboot,” hitting theaters this weekend, carries a production and promotional budget in the $300 to $400 million range. The David-Corenswet-starring film will need a big debut in China, where DC Studios has seen its superhero movies go to die or never show at all. Early “Superman” ticket sales figures suggest the Middle Kingdom could prove to be Kryptonite.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry acknowledged on Thursday the news of the arrest of two Chinese nationals in Ukraine on charges of espionage for allegedly attempting to steal missile designs, offering few details and claiming Beijing was still “verifying the information.”
Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on Tuesday he found it “deeply regrettable” that President Donald Trump announced he would impose reciprocal tariffs of 25 percent on exports from Japan.
China banned exports of several critical minerals to the United States in December, but enterprising American buyers have found ways to obtain the metals through third-party nations like Thailand and Mexico, and some Chinese companies have proven willing to work around the ban.
South Korea sent its National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac to Washington this week to meet with top officials in the administration of President Donald Trump, telling reporters that his government sought to handle security concerns alongside trade negotiations in anticipation of the August 1 tariff deadline.
Kyiv claims to have arrested a father-son team of alleged Chinese spies attempting to smuggle missile plans to Beijing.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued two arrest warrants for the “supreme leader” of the Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and the terrorists’ top judge Abdul Hakim Haqqani on Tuesday in response to the Taliban’s systematic abuse and repression of women and girls, which the court deemed a crime against humanity.
China’s latest social media celebrity is a man with the surname Jiao, known online as the “Red Uncle,” who lured a large number of straight men into sexual intercourse by disguising himself as a woman, and then secretly filming the encounters.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that his administration is close to finalizing a trade deal with India. India hedged its bets last week by notifying the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it could impose up to $724 million in retaliatory tariffs against American goods if a trade deal is not reached.
The Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption “Central Commission for Discipline Inspection” announced on Tuesday that it had launched an investigation into Zhou Xianwang, a longtime Party stooge who served as mayor of Wuhan during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin warned fellow members of the anti-American BRICS coalition during the group’s summit this week to work to strengthen their respective nations as “the liberal globalisation model is becoming obsolete.”
Nearly half a million Afghans have returned from Iran since June 1, the United Nations migration office revealed.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced new tariff rates for South Africa, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan, posting letters to the leaders of each country on his Truth Social account.
President Donald Trump on Monday sent letters to the leaders of Japan and South Korea announcing that each will face a 25 percent tariff on goods exported to the United States.
China’s TikTok is reportedly planning to launch a new app tailored specifically for U.S. users in September as the company seeks to address national security concerns and comply with federal legislation. The move could signal that Tiktok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance is close to selling its American operations to comply with federal legislation.
A North Korean man crossed the forbidding DMZ on Thursday and made it to South Korea with help from the South Korean military.
The BRICS security and trade coalition is concluding its annual summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, publishing a “declaration” notably missing some of the most strident anti-American policies it previously promoted, including the creation of a unified currency to challenge the U.S. dollar.
President Donald Trump said late Sunday that imports from countries aligning with “the Anti-American policies of BRICS” would face an additional ten percent tariff.
World War III will start with simultaneous invasions launched by China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, NATO chief Mark Rutte has warned, adding the combined force of the disruption will kick the lid off hell and push the planet to the very edge of Armageddon.
China said Sunday that European medical device companies will be barred from selling to the Chinese government as a countermeasure for the European Union’s restrictions on the sale of similar products from China.
The DOJ has busted 29 North Korean laptop farms across 16 states, alleging that illicit IT workers located in the communist dictatorship obtained employment with over 100 American companies to help fund the regime’s weapons programs.
