Gibo, Austin affirm PHL-US defense ties in Jakarta meet
The Philippines and US reiterated their commitment to strengthen their alliance, which helped keep the peace in the region for the past seven decades.
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The Philippines and US reiterated their commitment to strengthen their alliance, which helped keep the peace in the region for the past seven decades.
THE US is deepening intelligence cooperation with countries across Asia as it looks to counter Beijing’s sophisticated spying apparatus and blunt Chinese cyber attacks.
The trade ministers of China and Japan exchanged protests over chip export controls and the detention of Japanese citizens at a meeting in Detroit last week, according to statements from both governments.
The jobless rate dropped to 4.4 percent in April, the lowest level in more than a decade, the government said last Friday, signaling the economy’s resilience and showing a labor market closing in on full capacity.
The US stopped short of branding China a currency manipulator, but urged the world’s second-largest economy to let the yuan rise with market forces and embrace more trade.
WASHINGTON—The commander of United States forces in the Pacific has ordered an aircraft carrier and several other warships toward the Korean Peninsula in a show of force by the Trump administration just days after North Korea tested another intermediate-range missile.
United States officials said President Donald J. Trump’s first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week was an opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to get to know each other and set up future meetings.
PLYMOUTH, Michigan—Amanda Kessel rediscovered just how good it feels to score a goal for your country.
BAGHDAD—An air strike targeting Islamic State (IS) militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul that witnesses say killed at least 100 people was, in fact, launched by the US military, American officials said last Saturday.
UNITED NATIONS—Russia and the Trump administration clashed in a vote at the United Nations Security Council for the first time on Tuesday, as the Kremlin vetoed a measure backed by the United States and its Western allies to punish Syria for using chemical weapons.
TAMPA, Florida—A counterpropaganda program aimed at thwarting Islamic State (IS) recruiting over social media is plagued by incompetence, cronyism and skewed data, an Associated Press (AP) investigation has found.
CHINA’S rapid nuclear expansion will result in it overtaking the US as the nation with the largest atomic power capacity by 2026, according to BMI Research.
PYONGYANG, North Korea—With Donald J. Trump getting ready to take office as president, North Korea is talking about launching a newly perfected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
GUANGZHOU Automobile Group Co. (GAC), which produces cars in China with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, plans to start exporting its own brand of automobiles to the US next year and become the first Chinese carmaker to begin retail sales to American consumers.
WASHINGTON—Russian warplanes have carried out air strikes to support Turkey’s offensive in northern Syria against the Islamic State (IS), an important evolution in a budding Russian-Turkish partnership. The deepening ties threaten to marginalize the United States in the struggle to shape Syria’s ultimate fate.
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Saturday on Twitter the United States should let China keep the US Navy’s unmanned underwater glider that it seized in the South China Sea.
FOR decades, Singapore has walked a careful line between the US and China. Now, the tiny Southeast Asian state is finding itself in Beijing’s cross hairs.
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump’s threat on Monday to “terminate” the US detente with Cuba could trigger opposition from some Republican lawmakers and corporate leaders who favor continued engagement with Havana. Since 2014, when President Barack Obama began to normalize relations with the island, the United States has taken numerous steps to increase commercial travel, commerce and the flow of information to Cuba.
A nation’s power is ultimately only as strong as its economy. No better example can be found than with the Soviet Union, which, despite its nuclear missiles and military might, crumbled into dust, as its economy was nothing more than a hollow shell.
GENEVA—The impact of Donald Trump’s threat to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal will depend on what the president-elect lays out as the alternative, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Donald Trump was a trustworthy leader in comments after his first meeting with the US president-elect, whose statements on trade and security have sparked concern in Japan.
MEXICO CITY—One week after Donald Trump’s election as the next US president, Mexico has issued a message of support for Mexican immigrants living in the United States: “We are with you.”
China’s bid to assert its economic leadership is gaining traction in its push for an Asia-wide trade pact in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, which dashed hopes for a US-led deal that would have taken in about 40 percent of the global economy.
As if defusing the world’s biggest debt bomb while keeping economic growth humming wasn’t tough enough, Donald Trump’s shock-election victory has just made the policy outlook even more complex for People’s Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Zhou Xiaochuan.
The Philippines’s own pivot to Asia and its intent to mend relations with Beijing are seen to help speed up the conclusion of the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, especially now that the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is at a standstill, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Reince Priebus will be chief of staff (COS) and Stephen Bannon, who was chief executive of Donald Trump’s winning campaign, will serve as chief strategist and senior counselor when the Republican takes over as US president in January.
BEIJING—Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed the importance of relations with the US in a phone conversation with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, opening communication with a politician who had been strongly critical of China during his campaign.
As Donald Trump sees it, America’s trade deficit is a sign of economic weakness, proof that lousy trade deals have sent production overseas. Uncle Sam does not simply import goods from the rest of the world and send nothing in return, however, though that would be a lucrative arrangement. Rather, the net inflow of goods is matched by a net outflow of stocks, bonds and other financial assets.
The government of Canada immigration and citizenship web site crashed on Tuesday night, presumably under the weight of anxious Americans worried about their status under a Trump presidency. A spokesman for that office did not immediately return a request for comment.
By Georgina A. Verdeflor
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