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President Trump said his landmark trade deal with China was still in place after a top White House aide suggested it would be scrapped. “The China Trade Deal is fully intact. Hopefully they will continue to live up to the terms of the Agreement!” Trump wrote on Twitter late Monday. The tweet came after White …

Four more Chinese media outlets with operations in the U.S. are being labeled as “foreign missions” to highlight their close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. State Department announced Monday. China Central Television, China News Service, People’s Daily, and the Global Times are all joining the list of designated foreign actors, State Department …

Delta Air Lines said on Monday it would resume flights between Seattle and Shanghai on June 25, making it the first US airline to restart operations between the US and China after flights were suspended in February due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The flights will operate twice a week in June and once a week …

China has reportedly halted chicken imports from a Tyson Foods plant over concerns about a crop of coronavirus infections there. China’s General Administration of Customs suspended imports from a Tyson facility in Springdale, Arkansas with a Sunday order covering meat that is already in China or on its way there, The Wall Street Journal reported. …

Former Google CEO and chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board Eric Schmidt said that “there’s no question” Chinese telecom giant Huawei has business practices “not acceptable in national security.” Speaking to BBC Radio 4 for a documentary, Schmidt said that a proper understanding of Huawei should make one see the company as a means …

China will speed up its purchases of American farm goods under its trade deal with the US following a summit between the two countries, a new report says. Beijing plans to ramp up purchase of products such as soybeans, corn and ethanol after the coronavirus crisis caused purchases to fall behind, according to Bloomberg News. …

The Indian army has confirmed that at least 20 of its soldiers have died after a clash in the Himalayan Mountains on Monday. “Indian and Chinese troops have disengaged at the Galwan area where they had earlier clashed on the night of 15/16 June,” the Indian army said in a statement. “17 Indian troops were …

US lawmakers and policymakers should be wary of China’s moves to target vulnerable US assets and expand its market share in the wake of the global economic crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus, according to a study prepared for a US trade group and released on Tuesday. The Horizon Advisory report for the Alliance for …

The city of Beijing closed all K-12 schools on Tuesday following the onset of a new coronavirus outbreak. College students in the city were also forbidden from returning to campus, and the city has locked down residential compounds and disinfected over 30,000 restaurants. There were 106 new coronavirus infections recorded in Beijing as of Tuesday. …

There were losses on both sides of the battle as one of the Indian army’s officers and two soldiers were killed in a “violent faceoff” at Galwan Valley, one of the four clash points in the eastern Ladakh sector. These are the first reported casualties in decades to result from a clash between the nuclear-armed Asian …