Asked by a reporter if protesters should be “labelled domestic terrorists,” Trump said “I’ll do it.” “You do it to Tesla and you do it to any company, we’re going to catch you and you’re going to go through hell,” he said. Musk said that thanks to Trump’s “great policies”Continue Reading
As President Donald Trump has been trying to keep House Republicans in line over a continuing resolution to keep the government open through the fall, Elon Musk has expressed a desire for a government shutdown, four sources familiar with his position tell WIRED. Sources also tell WIRED that Musk hasContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Mar 11) doubled his planned tariff on all steel and aluminum products coming into the United States from Canada, bringing the total to 50 per cent, in response to the province of Ontario placing a 25 per cent tariff on electricity coming into theContinue Reading
The trilateral cooperation between Japan, South Korea, and the United States is showing cracks. Already fragile under the previous U.S. President Joe Biden, the alliance faces further strain under President Donald Trump, whose role as a mediator between historical antagonists Japan and South Korea is seen as unlikely by bothContinue Reading
A new wave of tariffs due this week will see steep levies of 25 per cent on steel and aluminium imports. Uncertainty over Trump’s tariffs and threats have left US financial markets in turmoil and consumers unsure of what the year might bring. Fears about the future battered Wall Street,Continue Reading
I forget which comedian it was who joked, “A friend will help you move house; a good friend will help you move a body.” My mind, of late, has been preoccupied with broken friendships and impending doom. Perhaps it’s to be expected given the events since Donald Trump’s inauguration justContinue Reading
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday (Mar 9) that his administration was in touch with four different groups about the sale of Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, and that all options were good. TikTok’s fate has been up in the air since a law requiring its owner ByteDance toContinue Reading
NOT A POLITICIAN? Carney made a fortune as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before entering the Canadian civil service. Since leaving the Bank of England in 2020, he has served as a United Nations envoy working to get the private sector to invest in climate-friendly technology and has heldContinue Reading
Last week, the United States said it had approved the sale of more than US$3 billion in munitions, bulldozers and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect in Gaza. The Turnberry property in southwest Scotland is one of two resorts that Trump owns in theContinue Reading
“Civilizations die by suicide, not by murder.”—Arnold Toynbee This observation by historian Arnold Toynbee encapsulates the strategic risk now facing U.S. power in the Indo-Pacific. While U.S. naval vessels continue their patrols and military hardware flows to allies, a dangerous pattern has emerged: the institutional foundations that translate military presenceContinue Reading
