Category: World

To break China’s strategic grip on critical minerals, the US must remove impediments, streamline issuance of permits and marshal capital to mine resources from the sea floor, witnesses told Congress … Read More

King Frederik X of Denmark arrived in Greenland on Tuesday, kicking off a visit to the semi-autonomous territory that US President Donald Trump wants to annex because of its strategic … Read More

The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and others in a forum that excludes the United States will criticise unilateral protectionist measures and call for a … Read More

Three people were killed in a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala on Tuesday and a murder investigation has been launched, police said. Police are searching for one suspected … Read More

The White House lashed out at Amazon on Tuesday after a report that the e-commerce giant plans to display tariff costs on its product listings, condemning the move as politically … Read More

Americans’ confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, as anxiety over the impact of tariffs takes … Read More

Now 100 days in, Donald Trump’s second term as US president has been defined by his determination to upend the established order on nearly all fronts of domestic and foreign … Read More

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Walmart tells some Chinese … Read More

Nearly a month into US President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “Liberation Day” trade war, Washington has retreated, at least temporarily, on tariffs against most nations – even admitting its sky-high duties … Read More

Malta’s “golden passports” programme for wealthy investors violates European Union rules on citizenship, the bloc’s top court ruled in a case that could have transformed the EU into a haven … Read More