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Trump: "One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say, 'let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that."

Trump: I will hold talks with China, Russia on reducing military spending and denuclearization when things calm down

Trump: Trade with BRICS could be subject to at least 100% tariffs

Trump: Taiwan took our chip business.. and we want that business back

SecDef @PeteHegseth on China - "We don't feel like conflict is inevitable and certainly don't seek conflict with China, and that's why President Trump has that good relationship with Xi Jinping. But it was prudent for us to work with allies and partners in the Pacific to ensure that that deterrence, hard power deterrence, not just reputational. exists. And that's why a lot of my first phone calls as Secretary of Defense were to Pacific allies."

British Foreign Secretary: I discussed global stability with my Chinese counterpart, including the Middle East and Ukraine

Australia protests to China over 'dangerous' fighter manoeuvres in disputed waters

NATO is hoping Trump can be persuaded that he needs allies to win against China and that therefore he'll stay engaged in Europe. Today SecGen Rutte emphasized that Beijing would be empowered by a "bad deal" in Ukraine

China protests to US and Japan for "attacking" and "smearing" Beijing over maritime disputes

Hong Kong police arrest man in connection with helping 4 2019 protesters hide from authorities

Chinese dry cargo ship runs aground off Sakhalin. The An Yang 2 ran aground south of the port of Nevelsk. The An Yang 2 is carrying 54 tons of diesel and 706 tons of fuel oil

Police and protesters from at least 28 diasporic groups - including Hong Kong, Tibetan, Uyghur, Chinese Dissident, and other resident organisations - outside the proposed site of the new Chinese Embassy redevelopment in Royal Mint Court central London

Taiwan Ministry of Defense: 11 sorties of PLA aircraft and 8 PLAN vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC 8) today. 9 out of the aircraft crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern and southwestern ADIZ. 1 PRC balloon were detected during this timeframe

Trump says “no” DeepSeek does not pose a national security threat “It’s a technology that's happening… I think we're going to benefit if it's correct… it'll be a lot less expensive.”

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced the first action in U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s “Maximum Pressure” campaign against Iran. Sanctions have been announced on the vast shipping network that sees millions of barrels of Iranian oil go to China. The shipments, brokered by the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff (AFGS), were facilitated by a number of front companies who will also be designated and sanctioned

South Korean foreign, trade ministries block access to DeepSeek

Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 74 km ESE of Kuqa, China

Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 43 km NNW of Huoshilafu, China

Australia has banned DeepSeek AI services from all government systems and devices

China to impose 10% tariff on U.S. Oil, 15% tariff on coals and LNG in response to Trump's tariffs

Trump: We will contact China within 24 hours, probably

Panama President Mulino expressed willingness to review certain Chinese businesses in Panama, particularly a 25-year concession to Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings, which operates ports at both entrances of the Panama Canal. Mulino also announced that Panama will not renew its broad agreement with China on the Belt and Road initiative, under which China expanded investment in Panama during previous administrations, and may even terminate it early

AFP: China vows to respond to US tariffs with 'countermeasures'

John Rogers, a former Senior Adviser to the Federal Reserve, has been arrested for giving trade secrets to China

White House: Trump to impose 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico on Saturday, and 10% tariffs on goods from China

US President Donald J Trump posts, "The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER. We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. economy. They can go find another sucker nation. There is no chance that BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, or anywhere else, and any Country that tries should say hello to Tariffs, and goodbye to America!"

FT: China builds huge wartime military command centre in Beijing. Several current and former US officials said the intelligence community is closely monitoring the site, which could serve as a wartime command centre 10 times larger than the Pentagon

The terms of the Chinese-mediated ceasefire agreement also include the military’s cessation of airstrikes in areas controlled by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA)

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, according to people familiar with the matter

White House spokeswoman: Trump sees China's DeepSeek AI app as wake-up call