Category: Donald Trump

Colombia, whose president crossed swords with U.S. President Donald Trump on accepting deportation flights, announced plans on Thursday to strengthen ties with China by adding a new shipping route to Shanghai. Colombia's commerce ministry said the new route would take ships ...

By Melissa Conley Tyler One of the executive orders U.S. President Donald Trump signed the day he was inaugurated was a 90-day pause in U.S. foreign development assistance. The U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, ...

The Trump administration’s decision to halt and review U.S. foreign assistance to developing countries instantaneously turned the United States from many countries’ biggest helper into their biggest problem. In the process, he kicked off a massive experiment. The research question ...

India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri arrived in Beijing on Sunday for two days of talks with his counterpart, Vice-Foreign Minister Sun Weidong. The two, who were both ambassadors to each other's countries, are expected to discuss the resumption of direct flights and the easing of visa restrictions ...

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated Thursday his threat to place 100 percent tariffs on BRICS nations, as the deadline loomed for him to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Trump had previously threatened 100% tariffs on BRICS nations—a bloc including Brazil, ...

New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is breaking with tradition to make Latin America the destination for his first overseas trip later this week. Previous Secretaries of State typically prioritized Europe and Asia for their initial visits. That's probably a ...

A ship carrying a chemical used to make missile propellant is reportedly traveling from China to Iran, and a second will leave in February. The Iran-flagged Golbon departed the Chinese island of Daishan on Tuesday loaded with enough sodium perchlorate to power 260 mid-range missiles. It is reportedly ...

Donald Trump roared back into power this week, signing dozens of executive orders on his first day that upended large parts of the U.S. foreign policy agenda. The president withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, the Paris Climate ...

By Juan José Rodríguez U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to seize the Panama Canal over alleged undue Chinese influence may really be aimed at limiting Beijing's growing diplomatic and economic presence in Latin America, experts say.

Panama has complained to the United Nations over U.S. President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway. In a letter to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a raft of executive orders on his first day in office that will significantly shift the United States’s relationship with the developing world. The orders, while framed as promoting the interests of the U.S. voters, will ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping praised their deepening cooperation in a video call on Tuesday, hours after Donald Trump's inauguration as United States president. The Republican has promised to take a hard line on Washington's adversaries since ...