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Although United States-India cooperation remains a fundamentally positive-sum enterprise, advancing both economic and strategic interests, the manner of the new bilateral trade deal’s announcement was as striking as its substance. President Donald Trump framed the deal as a decisive reset of a year-long tariff standoff, unveiling it through social media posts following a direct call…
The Walt Disney Company announced on Tuesday that Josh D’Amaro, head of its theme parks division, will replace Bob Iger as chief executive when the entertainment titan steps down in March. D’Amaro, 54, will take the helm on March 18 following a unanimous board vote, the company said. He will succeed Iger, who has led…
US President Donald Trump appeared to bury the hatchet with his Colombian counterpart on Tuesday after months of tensions, praising the leftist leader as he hosted him behind closed doors at the White House. “You are great,” Trump wrote to Gustavo Petro as he signed a copy of his 1987 book Art of the Deal,…
Now we know why they didn’t want to release the Epstein files. It’s not just about implicating US President Donald Trump, who was a long-time close friend of the infamous paedophile and sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. Rather, they basically implicate the ruling and business elites of the Anglo-American world. In the 1980s and 1990s, there…
The partial US government shutdown is on track to end later on Tuesday after the House passed a funding deal US President Donald Trump negotiated with Senate Democrats, overcoming opposition from both ends of the political spectrum. The spending package, which Trump has said he wants enacted quickly, now goes to the president for his…
This article, originally published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission. “The powerful have their power. But we have something, too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home and to act together.” With those words during a landmarkspeechat the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, Canadian…
Beijing has slammed a Panamanian Supreme Court ruling that nullified Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings’ right to operate two major ports at the country’s canal as “legally unfounded”, warning the Central American nation that it could pay a heavy political and economic price. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said in a commentary on…
Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), Hong Kong’s largest developer by market capitalisation, said executive director Maureen Fung Sau-yim resigned with immediate effect on Tuesday due to health issues, according to a stock exchange filing. “Ms Fung has confirmed that she has no disagreement with the board of the company and that she is not aware…
In a landmark interview during the Cold War, Pakistan’s then-president and military chief General Muhammed Zia-ul-Haq defended his country’s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) with a succinct assertion: “Freedom has no price.” For Zia and for other non-signatory states like India, Israel, and South Sudan, the ability to independently chart national security…
Two men are set to be charged with murder in Malaysia following the discovery of the charred skeletal remains of six people – including three young children – in a remote, abandoned house in Johor state. Johor police chief Ab Rahaman Arsad confirmed on Tuesday that the grisly findings were made on January 9 in…
