US says it struck framework deal with China to restore trade war truce
Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says he will present plan to Donald Trump
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‚We are preparing for war‘ with China ‚threat‘, says US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a hawkish speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025 summit, demonizing China as a “threat”, saying, “We are preparing for war” in the Asia-Pacific region.
| Ben Norton Jun 09, 2025 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an extremely hawkish speech in which he demonized China as a „threat“ and said, „We are preparing for war“. „Those who long for peace, must prepare for war. And that’s exactly what we’re doing. We are preparing for war, in order to deter war — to achieve peace through strength“, Hegseth stated. The top Donald Trump administration official made these aggressive remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025, a summit held in Singapore on 31 May. „The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent. We hope not, but it certainly could be“, Hegseth claimed, indicating that the Pentagon was preparing for a war over Taiwan. „Beyond our borders and beyond our neighborhood, we are reorienting toward deterring aggression by Communist China“, he stressed. Ben Norton Jun 09, 2025 The message of Trump’s Pentagon: war is peace The Trump administration’s Pentagon has essentially pushed the message „war is peace“. Hegseth has incessantly reiterated the slogan „peace through strength“. „President Trump said it himself [in May] in Riyadh – and will never hesitate to wield American power swiftly and decisively if necessary. That is re-establishing deterrence“, the defense secretary emphasized in Singapore. Hegseth is a war hawk and a religious fundamentalist. He made his name as a former host on the conservative TV network Fox News, where Trump discovered him. In 2020, Hegseth published a book called “American Crusade”, in which he proudly identified as a “crusader” and wrote that the US right wing is waging a “holy war” against China, the international left, and Islam. “Communist China will fall—and lick its wounds for another two hundred years”, he promised in the extremist book. Trump admin pressures Asia-Pacific countries to minimize "economic cooperation with China"speech in Singapore in May 2025, threatened China and boasted of US “war-fighting” preparations a war could be coming soon. China opposes hegemony, while the US empire seeks itfight imperialism, colonialism, and hegemonism”. had to be an „anti-hegemony“ clause. Wolfowitz Doctrine stated Bipartisan warmongering in Washingtonnear total continuity with the previous administration”. Biden’s neoconservative Secretary of State Antony Blinken had also maintained a hardline anti-China position. , Blinken announced what was essentially a containment policy targeting China. Read the whole article |
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Xi, Trump hold phone talks, discussing trade and Taiwan question
| Li Jingjing Jun 07, 2025 1. Xi, Trump hold phone talks “The two sides should enhance communication in such fields as foreign affairs, economy and trade, military, and law enforcement to build consensus, clear up misunderstandings, and strengthen cooperation, said Xi.” – CGTN Continue reading |
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Understanding the economic ‚protracted war‘ between the US and China
Economist John Ross analyses the precise situation of the US economy as it entered the first battle of its tariff war with China
| This article was first published at John Ross’ Substack. It has been cross-posted here with his permission. John Ross Understanding the economic ‚protracted war‘ between the US and China Economist John Ross analyses the precise situatio This article was first published at John Ross’ Substack. It has been cross-posted here with his permission. China and the U.S. have come to a 90-day trade agreement. This was a clear victory in the first battle of the “trade war” for China — as was admitted even in the U.S. media. As Bloomberg, a fiercely anti-China source, summarised the analysis of the overwhelming majority of Western media: “Xi Jinping’s decision to stand his ground against Donald Trump could hardly have gone any better for the Chinese leader.” But it would be an error to mistake this decisive victory for China in the first battle with a belief that the U.S. will abandon the economic struggle against China – it will not. This is in economic terms a “protracted war”, not a single battle. This article, therefore, analyses the precise situation of the U.S. economy as it entered the first battle of the tariff war, and what forces will determine the outcome of this “protracted” economic war. Continue Reading on Geoploitical Economy |
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