Trump tariffs stay updates: Vance says good probability of UK commerce deal as China warns of ‘unilateral bullying’ | EUROtoday

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Vietnam to “oppose unilateralism and bullying practices” because the commerce battle between Beijing and the uscontinues.

Xi is on a state go to to the South Asian nation, which additionally faces excessive export duties to the usunder the Trump administration’s reciprocal tariff program.

State media outlet Xinhua reported the Chinese president as urging Vietnam to affix Beijing in opposing unilateralism and protectionism.

While Xi didn’t point out America by identify, China’s overseas ministry spokesperson mentioned the uswas hurting your entire world with its excessive tariffs.

“The U.S. uses tariff as a weapon to exert maximum pressure and seek selfish gains, and puts its own interests over the public good of the international community,” Lin Jian mentioned in a press convention on Monday.

“This is a typical move of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying, which severely hurts the interests of China, the EU and the rest of the world.”

The Trump administration is freezing greater than $2.2 billion in grants for Harvard University after the varsity refused to adjust to the White House’s listing of calls for.

The funding freeze, in addition to a freeze on $60 million in contracts, comes because the White House continues to attempt to push the nation’s most prestigious universities to adjust to Donald Trump’s agenda.

The White House has focused seven faculties, together with Harvard, demanding broad management, governance and admissions reforms.

In a letter to Harvard, the administration made a protracted listing of calls for together with that Harvard scrap all range, fairness and inclusion applications, that it reform its admissions for worldwide college students and supply audits of its worldwide pupil program, and crack down on pupil teams.

Harvard defied the Trump administration’s orders, saying in a reply letter: “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

The administration has additionally paused federal funding for Brown, Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, and the University of Pennsylvania. Colombia was additionally focused, and the varsity acquiesced to the federal government’s calls for.

U.S. vice chairman JD Vance mentioned Washington was “working very hard” there was a “good chance” a commerce deal may very well be reached with the UK.

“We’re certainly working very hard with Keir Starmer’s government,” Vance advised UnHerd web site.

U.S. president Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports to the U.S., rocking the world economic system, sending inventory costs tumbling and sparking fears of a world recession.

Since then, Trump has rowed again on tariffs, decreasing the speed paid on imports from most nations to 10 per cent and, on Saturday, exempting electronics corresponding to smartphones and laptops from the levy.

“The president really loves the United Kingdom. He loved the Queen. He admires and loves the King. It is a very important relationship. And he’s a businessman and has a number of important business relationships in [Britain]. But I think it’s much deeper than that.

“There’s a real cultural affinity. And, of course, fundamentally, America is an Anglo country. I think there’s a good chance that, yes, we’ll come to a great agreement that’s in the best interest of both countries.” he added.

Vance added that the “reciprocal relationship” between the US and UK gave Britain a extra advantageous place than different European nations to barter new commerce agreements.

“While we love the Germans, they are heavily dependent on exporting to the United States but are pretty tough on a lot of American businesses that would like to export into Germany.”

President Donald Trump claimed Chinese president Xi Jinping was visiting Southeast Asian nations to seek out methods to “screw” the U.S.

China and Vietnam signed dozens of cooperation agreements yesterday, strengthening ties between the communist-run nations throughout Xi’s go to to Hanoi.

Xi is in Vietnam for the primary leg of a Southeast Asia tour, as Beijing tries to current itself as a secure various to an erratic Trump following his imposition of sweeping tariffs. Xi warned that protectionism “leads nowhere” and {that a} commerce battle would have “no winners”.

Reacting to his go to, Trump mentioned: “I don’t blame China; I don’t blame Vietnam.””That’s a lovely meeting. Meeting like, trying to figure out, ‘how do we screw the United States of America?’”

Vietnam was hit by one of the highest tariffs of 46 per cent earlier this month.

Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence supercomputers in the United States for the first time.

The tech giant said it has commissioned more than one million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its specialized Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas — part of an investment the company said will produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure in the next four years.

Air Force Gen. Dan Caine has been sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a flurry of paperwork was finished to allow him to fill the job nearly two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor.

A formal White House ceremony is expected to take place this week.

Caine, a decorated F-16 fighter pilot and well-respected officer, took over on Saturday after Trump signed the necessary documents. He will serve the remainder of the four-year term of Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who was fired by Trump as part of a broader purge of military officers believed to endorse diversity and equity programs.

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Bukele, who met with Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, was asked by a reporter if he’d consider releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland before he was arrested and deported back to his home country last month despite an immigration judge’s years-old order preventing the government from deporting him.