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Analysts say address to symposium suggests crackdown on sector may be ending in effort to tackle economic slump

Debate over China's military readiness and intentions sparks discussions on political influences, combat skills, and regional security implications.

Shares in BAE Systems, Rheinmetall and Saab soar, as Keir Starmer offers to put British ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine

An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content

Alibaba shares soared by more than six percent on Friday following reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping was poised to meet with the tech juggernaut's co-founder Jack Ma. Alibaba, which has already surged more than 40 percent in 2025, piled on 6.3 percent after also being given an extra leg-up…

US president says Washington’s existing nuclear arsenal could destroy the world ‘100 times over’.

Donald Trump unveiled an extraordinary vision of a shake-up to the world order Thursday, eyeing a three-way summit with the Russian and Chinese leaders just a day after saying he had agreed with Vladimir Putin to start Ukraine peace talks.

President Trump suggests a trilateral meeting with China and Russia to discuss cutting military budgets in half and reducing nuclear weapons. Potential out...

Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, spoke for much of the European diplomatic community when she reacted to news of Donald Trump’s phone chat with Vladimir Putin: “This is the way the Trump administration operates,” she declared. “This is not how others do foreign policy, but this is now the…

New ambassador to US and his consultancy firm under spotlight over links to agency said to have aim of co-opting western businesspeople

‘We want to raise defense spending. I think we have to have it,’ the president told Fox News in a recent interview