India’s arms sector eyes pivotal breakthrough with UAE: ‘confidence booster’

A potential sale of BrahMos missiles to the United Arab Emirates could mark a significant step in India ’s push to become a serious arms exporter, giving New Delhi a foothold in one of the world’s most competitive security markets, analysts have said.

The talks also include the potential sale of Akashteer, India’s automated air-defence command-and-control system, according to a Reuters report from June 22.

No deal has been signed and discussions remain in the early stages, but analysts say a


Trump reports more than US$1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures

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The government ethics disclosure report shows Trump ‌now earns most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies

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US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office in the White House in Washington. Photo: EPA

US President Donald reported more than US$1.4 billion in income from his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now ‌earns most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies, according to a review of his latest


Hong Kong, mainland China to start sharing data this year: tech minister Sun Dong

Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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US, China should de-escalate from tit-for-tat actions, US lawmaker says

Steve Daines calls Beijing’s export controls on US companies and Pentagon’s blacklisting of Chinese tech firms ‘unfortunate developments’

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Wheel loaders fill trucks with ore at the MP Materials' rare earths mine in Mountain Pass, California. MP Materials is one of the US companies that China imposed export controls on last week. Photo: Reuters

“These are unfortunate developments,” the Republican Senator from Montana said on Monday. Daines is a member of two of the most powerful committees in the US Senate: the Foreign Relations and Finance Committees.

“The


US hollows out G20 agenda, casts Miami summit as ‘backdrop for Trump-Xi meeting’: sources

Two delegation members described the effort as the group’s top negotiators, also known as sherpas, met in Washington on Monday and Tuesday for their second in a planned series of sessions to draft the Joint Declaration that leaders are to issue at the summit.

They said the US “pressed to strip the text of language on poverty reduction, energy transition and gender” and to narrow the agenda to immigration, transnational crime, terrorism, foreign investment and what it calls “fair trade”.

Both spoke on condition of anonymity


US must innovate faster to counter China’s tech rise, lawmakers told

A US congressional hearing on Tuesday urged the United States to innovate faster, smarter and better to counter China’s growing technological muscle, even as several lawmakers slammed the US President Donald Trump administration for policies they said undercut US national interests.

The testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce comes as the two economic giants increasingly and aggressively face off over standards, economic models and supply chains, despite last month’s summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at easing tensions.

“At this very moment,


UK trade secretary hosts Chinese delegation in bid to boost services

Peter Kyle and China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao will launch an initiative to support UK businesses expanding their exports into China

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Britain’s Trade Secretary Peter Kyle outside 10 Downing Street in London. Photo: EPA

UK Trade Secretary Peter Kyle is seeking to boost UK services exports to China as he hosts a delegation from the country on Tuesday.

Peter Kyle and China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao will jointly host the 15th UK–China Joint Economic and Trade Commission at Mansion House in London.

UK patient tested for possible Ebola as cases rise in Africa

If confirmed, the suspected infection in Glasgow, Scotland would be the first Ebola case the UK has seen during the current DRC outbreak

A laboratory technician at work in Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. On Tuesday, a patient at the hospital was tested for Ebola. Photo: AFP

A hospital in Scotland is testing a patient for Ebola as central Africa faces a deadly outbreak of the virus.

The person arrived at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday, according to a report from the BBC. A representative for the hospital declined to comment.

Public Health Scotland (PHS), the government


The great AI reckoning: how China is flipping the script on US’ new industrial revolution

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, it confronts a new world order dominated by its relationship with China. In this wide-ranging series, we examine the pressure points and possibilities in those ties, from hard tech to soft power. Here, Vincent Chow looks at how China challenges core American assumptions about innovation and technology, and the historical stakes of their competition in artificial intelligence.

In 1969, the renowned British sinologist Joseph Needham posed a series of questions about China


Trump ally Steve Daines rejects claims of talks with KMT leader

KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun holds a news conference in Taipei following her US visit earlier this month. Photo: AFP

“She met my staff. She did not meet me,” the conservative lawmaker from Montana told the South China Morning Post on Monday.

Cheng visited Washington earlier this month as part of a broader effort to strengthen ties with US policymakers during a multi-city two-week tour that also included San Francisco , Boston and New York.

In a June 12 Facebook post