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Nvidia flew to Beijing with Trump to sell but China said no

A month ago, the CEO of the world’s most valuable company boarded Air Force One in Alaska as a last-minute addition to President Trump’s Beijing delegation. Jensen Huang came to sell Nvidia’s H200 chips, just cleared for export by Washington. But Beijing said no. It’s pushing

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NATO exists to guard against Russia, not to appease Donald Trump

What is the point of NATO? The defense ministers’ summit on June 18 and the visit by the NATO Secretary General to Washington last week in advance of the leaders’ summit due to take place on July 7-8 in Turkey have made it seem as if the military alliance’s main purpose is the

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O Tsinghua – the long and winding road leads me to your door

The long and winding road That leads to your door Will never disappear. I’ve seen that road before. It always leads me here. Lead me to your door. – The Beatles Steelhead. Seafaring rainbow trout. Anadromous oncorhynchus mykiss. Steelhead are a puzzling fish. Are they salmon?

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Indian court detains eight in Ram temple graft case, ANI says

NEW DELHI, June 29 - An Indian court detained eight men on Monday in connection with the alleged embezzlement of donations and offerings at a new temple dedicated to Hindu god Lord Ram, news agency ANI said, an incident that has come as an embarrassment for Prime Minister

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Will AI make companies outsource more or less?

It’s almost hard to remember nowadays, but before the pandemic a lot of us were worried about falling business dynamism in the United States. For whatever reason, Americans just weren’t starting companies — either high-growth startups or small businesses — at the rate they used

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Wall Street’s got China’s currency ambitions all wrong

Wall Street has spent nearly two decades operating on a flawed assumption about China’s financial intentions. Eventually, Beijing would want what Washington has: the world’s reserve currency, the deepest capital markets and the extraordinary geopolitical advantages that come

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Iran deal Trump trashed looks a lot like the one he’s signing

At Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne last week, US Vice President JD Vance announced that Iran had agreed to let United Nations nuclear inspectors back into the country and called it a first step toward permanently ending Tehran’s nuclear program — a claim Iran’s foreign ministry

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Philippines poised to squander a rich nickel future

The Philippines is approaching a critical moment in its nickel policy. As one of Southeast Asia’s largest nickel producers, it has a rare opportunity to transform nickel from a raw mineral export into a foundation for national industrialization. But that opportunity is not

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Iran’s Hormuz toll gambit is doomed to fail

Tensions have again escalated in the Middle East, with the United States and Iran trading strikes around the Strait of Hormuz. It follows reports of an Iranian drone attack on a cargo ship trying to transit through the strait. Both the US and Iran have accused each other of

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China vows support for Belarus' national sovereignty

BEIJING, June 29 - China supports Belarus in safeguarding its national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Beijing on Monday, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

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To beat China in the lab, America’s edge is trust not speed

The United States is right to worry about losing ground to China in clinical research. But if Washington frames trial reform mainly as a race, it risks missing the larger prize: a faster, safer and more trusted model for developing medicines that the rest of the world can rely.

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