Topline Typhoon Ragasa, the most powerful storm of the year so far, made landfall in southern China on Wednesday evening after causing a wave of destruction and killing more than a dozen people in Taiwan and remote parts of the Philippines. Waves crash onto a beach near a giant sculpture in Shenzhen in southern China’s…
John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, speaks at the Hill & Valley Forum 2025 at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Earlier this month, the bipartisan House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and…
Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko salutes in front of servicemen during the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises Zapad-2017. Zapad 2025 begins September 12. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Moscow seems bent on escalating tensions against the West around the sensitive time of 9,11 what with…
Russian President Vladimir Putin Hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping for a high-level meeting in 2025 in Moscow. Getty Images China and Russia have now given the go ahead for one of the world’s most consequential natural gas deals in a decade. During the recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjin, China, leaders Xi…
Snowboarders and skiers enjoy a run at the Shanghai L+SNOW Indoor Skiing Theme Resort, one of the world’s largest indoor ski resorts. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images China’s booming ski industry chalked up new growth in the latest season, helped by an increase in ski visits as well as…
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 30: U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on “Investing in America” on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump was joined by CEOs to highlight companies and their investments in the United States during…
Strong demand and disruptions to supply have restored investor interest in uranium, which has outperformed most other commodities over the past month, and could keep rising. Revived interest in nuclear power as a source of clean energy is providing the demand while operational problems at two of the world’s biggest uranium mines is crimping supply….
A Pop Mart store in Shanghai. The company released a mini-series of Labubu dolls this week that sold out quickly online. Getty Wang Ning, founder of toy maker Pop Mart International Group, has become richer than Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma thanks to the global mania for the company’s Labubu dolls. The 38-year-old chairman and CEO,…
“Imposing Section 232 tariffs on medicines would worsen shortages, drive up prices, and leave patients with fewer options,” writes Pipes. getty The Trump administration is considering massive “Section 232” tariffs on imported medicines from key U.S. allies, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, and South Korea. While tariffs on some countries, such…
Furnace slag skimming at a nickel plant operated by PT Vale Indonesia in Sorowako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Saturday, June 11, 2022. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Sovereign wealth fund, Danantara Indonesia, has agreed to invest in the $1.4 billion nickel smelting facility being developed by Chinese battery maker GEM and Brazilian…