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The confrontation near the Scarborough Shoal was the latest flare-up of the long-simmering territorial standoff in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
Trump has extended his tariff pause on China for another 90-days just hours before the last trade truce was set to expire.
The joint naval exercises — carried out over two days — are likely to antagonise China, which claims to control the entire contested maritime area.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said in June that China posed an imminent threat and urged Indo-Pacific countries to increase military spending to 5% of GDP.
After a one-day summit in Beijing, the European Union insisted on the need to immediately rebalance trade relations with China.
China’s dominance should be a ‘wake-up call’ for Europe to ‘do its own homework’, the former European Commission President told Euronews’ Europe Today.
The expectations for the EU-China summit are so low that officials in Brussels claim as a victory the fact that it is happening at all.
List of Chinese investments in Europe namechecked, and cooperation on research and intellectual property underlined, though mood music for EU-China summit has dampened expectations.
The London talks are the latest in the two countries’ joint efforts to find a middle ground to resolve a trade dispute which threatens to plunge...
A new wave of trade tensions is unfolding between the European Union and China, just weeks ahead of a pivotal summit in Beijing set for mid-July...
