After all, as a new report from the Global Capital Allocation Project (a joint hub between Stanford, Chicago and Columbia universities) notes, it is China that actually has hegemonic power over global manufacturing, via its dominance of many supply chains.

Fort Worden Hospitality, a nonprofit corporation that runs accommodation and food and beverage services at the century old fort-turned-state-park, is ceasing all operations.

Britain’s Independent Media Group has secured funding from Bill and Melinda Gates’ foundation to invest in new reporters and investigative stories.

The trial, now in its third month and heading towards closing arguments, is the culmination of a sprawling, decade-long corruption investigation that has netted several convictions, including the chief executive of a public utility and a longtime member of Chicago’s city council.

US President Donald Trump said the US would take back the Panama Canal, decrying China’s influence over the important waterway and the high rates being charged to American ships. In his inauguration speech on Monday,

I expected to talk to 11-year-olds, the senior grade in the school, but was startled to be escorted into a kindergarten classroom of 5 and 6-year-olds. Thinking quickly, I asked the class which of them had a pavement in front of their homes. All hands went up.

Bezos’s rush to cosy up to the Trumps has been matched by corporate executives across America, as tech billionaires, financiers and the leaders of some of the US’s best-known consumer groups hurry to adjust to a more conservative zeitgeist in the wake of Trump’s election victory and the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress.

American defence executives are braced for a Donald Trump return to the White House that could be more disruptive than his first term, when he showed a willingness to shake up the status quo and personally intervened in procurement decisions.

The measures include sanctions on Russian oil producers Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas, and the blacklisting of 183 vessels involved in Russian energy exports. Dozens of traders, Russia-based oilfield service providers, and energy officials were also targeted, according to a notice posted by the US Treasury.

Lord Peter Mandelson will still hold shares in the lobbying firm he co-founded as he takes up his new post as the UK’s ambassador in Washington, despite the company’s work for Chinese clients like TikTok and links to a prominent ex-adviser to Barack Obama.

Donald Trump promised to act with “historic speed and strength” to end “American decline” as he addressed a jubilant crowd of supporters in Washington on the eve of his re

Trump is expected to make early moves to help the US oil and gas industry as part of his promise to usher in a new era of American “energy dominance”. Among his day one executive orders, he has vowed to direct the federal government to slash red tape and “end all Biden restrictions on energy production”.