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The copper price surged toward an all-time high on concerns of potential Trump tariffs, alongside China’s stimulus measures. A weak US dollar may have also added to its rally.

The French Foreign Minister’s two-day visit to China is an opportunity to gauge Beijing’s attitude toward Ukraine ahead of major talks on a possible European peacekeeping force.

European Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is heading to China as the country’s companies come under the EU’s investigatory lens. But with a trade war with the United States intensifying, what’s he after in a rapprochement between the EU and China?

Taiwan’s Defence Minister Wellington Koo said the exercises were further evidence that China was a ‘troublemaker’ endangering peace in the region.

A raft of new national security measures was needed in response to China’s increased efforts to undermine the island’s security, says Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te.

The trilateral meeting in Beijing came after Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s supreme leader aiming to restart negotiations over the nuclear issue.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian denounced US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s statement that the US is “prepared” to go to war with China following Beijing’s warning over escalating trade tensions.

US President Donald Trump launched a trade war against China, alongside Mexico and Canada, by doubling the tariff he slapped last month on Beijing’s products to 20%.

The increase, the same as last year, and far below the double-digit percentage figures of previous years, reflects an overall slowdown in the economy but keeps pace with the fast changing trend in defence spending across the world.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the move ‘runs counter to the Thai people’s longstanding tradition of protection for the most vulnerable’.