Foreign investment into the US could be threatened by Donald Trump’s new “revenge” taxes, analysts have warned. A provision within the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will allow the US to apply higher taxes on foreign individuals, businesses and investors connected to jurisdictions that impose “unfair foreign taxes” on US individuals and companies. Companies
Chinese diplomacy: a school of ancient wisdom President Xi last visited Kazakhstan in July 2024 at the invitation of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Following the talks, the two countries signed more than 30 agreements covering trade, technical and economic cooperation, transport, infrastructure and engineering, energy, industry, agriculture, and education. As Aliya Musabekova, Chief Expert at
Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Kazakhstan for talks with Central Asian leaders, providing a counterpoint to a Group of Seven summit by visiting a vast region at the nexus of competing interests from Washington to Beijing. Xi, who’s making only his third overseas trip this year, is set to meet with Kazakh President
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Ryan Hass is director of the John L. Thornton China Centre and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also a senior fellow at the think tank’s Centre for Asia Policy Studies. He is a former diplomat with a focus on China and served as a
There’s a new craze in town and everyone, including celebrities, are jumping on the bandwagon. Labubu dolls are everywhere lately. Stores can’t keep them on shelves, resellers are selling them for crazy prices, and you can’t scroll for too long on TikTok without seeing a video of a Labubu unboxing. They are attracting kids, adults,
US President Donald Trump rejected a plan by Israel to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three US officials have told BBC’s US partner CBS News. Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that assassinating Khamenei was not a good idea, according to one official. The president has not commented publicly on the
“From my point of view, it’s a question of knowing whether President Trump is ready to put forward much stronger sanctions against Russia” if Moscow doesn’t respect a U.S.-proposed ceasefire, Macron said during a press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Macron also suggested that Trump could play
