Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States.
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Va. Some of China’s financing in the United States has been in the form of lines of credit to big companies like Amazon.
Post-election violence has tarnished the country’s reputation for stability, and the crackdown may have backfired on the government, as officials in Washington call for a re-examination of U.S. ties.
Decades ago, a Chinese village became an official symbol of revolutionary “self-reliance.” The slogan hasn’t changed, but nearly everything else has.
Jia Tianlian tending his tiny plot of land in Dazhai, a village in northern China that Mao Zedong once hailed as a model for the nation. In the background are residential buildings from the “people’s commune” of that era.
TotalEnergies uses facilities like gas-fired power plants and this battery farm on the site of a closed refinery near Dunkirk, France, to balance the power grid.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is to visit the White House on Tuesday for the first time since 2018, when the killing of a journalist by Saudi agents made him a pariah.
President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, the capital, in May in Mr. Trump’s first major trip abroad of his second term.
In his remarks at the McDonald’s Impact Summit on Monday in Washington, President Trump made only fleeting reference to the issue of beef prices, after boasting about getting his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to eat a Big Mac.
New emails showed that Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.
Mr. Summers, a former treasury secretary, had sought money from Mr. Epstein for a poetry foundation led by his wife, Elisa New, an emerita Harvard literature professor.
The president has reversed himself and encouraged lawmakers to vote for compelling the Justice Department to turn over investigation documents, but he never really needed their approval.
President Trump said on Monday that he would sign a bill related to the release of the full Epstein files should it reach his desk after passing the House and Senate.
President Trump said that he was open to talking with President Nicolás Maduro but that the United States has “to take care of Venezuela” as the U.S. builds a military force in the Caribbean.
President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday. Last month, Mr. Trump called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela, but the president has raised the possibility of renewed engagement.
If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization.
New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and a Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, sought to publicize the role of the housing official, Bill Pulte, in executing President Trump’s retribution agenda.
The regulator is cutting staff and easing oversight in ways that critics say might make supervisors less equipped to spot a crisis in advance, risking deeper damage to the economy.
Faced with a mass defection on a bill to demand the release of the Epstein files, the president rushed to avoid an embarrassing loss, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on the G.O.P.
Demonstrators outside the Capitol last week. As Republicans gear up for midterm elections and some begin to plot a future after Mr. Trump, the Epstein episode is a rare instance in which he has lost control.
A polling station in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, in 2022. The French government faces the same debates over foreign malign influence that have taken place in the United States.
Russia and China abstained in the vote, which provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
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