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  • Exclusive | Trump Officials Torpedoed Nvidia’s Push to Export AI Chips to China

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    Shortly before President Trump met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, an urgent issue emerged. Trump wanted to discuss a request by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang to allow sales of a new generation of artificial-intelligence chips to China, current and former administration officials said.

    Greenlighting the export of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips would be a seismic policy shift potentially giving China, the U.S.’s biggest geopolitical competitor, a technological accelerant. Huang—who speaks to Trump often—has lobbied relentlessly to maintain access to the Chinese market.

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  • Opinion | A U.S. Troop Exit From Eastern Europe?

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    It’s a safe bet that most Americans won’t notice if the U.S. pulls an Army brigade out of Romania, but you can bet Vladimir Putin will. Behind a reshuffling of U.S. forces abroad is a larger debate within the Trump Administration about America’s posture in the world, and senior Republicans in Congress are expressing alarm.

    The U.S. Army confirmed last week that soldiers from a brigade combat team of the 101st Airborne Division will return to Kentucky “without replacement.” Romania’s defense ministry called the decision “an effect of the new priorities of the presidential administration”—that is, the Trump Pentagon. About 1,000 troops will remain in the country, and the U.S. footprint in Romania is a small share of the roughly 85,000 troops on the continent.

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  • Opinion | The New Right’s New Antisemites

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    Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation flounders in the Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes fever swamps.

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  • Trump Threatens Military Action in Nigeria in Defense of Christians

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    The president said the U.S. could go in “guns-a-blazing” to halt the perceived targeting of Christians by Islamist militants.

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  • Canadian PM Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Antitariff Ad

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    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he apologized to President Trump over an antitariff television ad that had angered Trump and sent the two countries’ trade talks into a tailspin.

    Carney made the apology earlier this week during a dinner in South Korea for Asia-Pacific leaders, he told reporters Saturday at a news conference. Trump had been offended by the advertisement, Carney said, which was sponsored by the Ontario government and included audio of former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.

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  • Essay | The Trade War Couldn’t Change China’s Economy

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    President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have walked back from the ledge—again. But even as the world’s two superpowers deescalate a trade fight that had threatened to destabilize the global economy, a new reality is setting in—that Washington may finally have to give up on its long-standing aim of pushing Beijing to restructure its economy.

    For years and through successive U.S. administrations, senior officials in Washington had hoped that bringing China into the global trading system would open up the country’s political system. In the decades since China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, those hopes of political liberalization have largely been dashed. The sense of disappointment has only grown as Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who took power in late 2012, has tightened his control over the domestic political system and civil society more broadly.

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  • Trump Says He’s Not Planning Venezuela Strike

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    President Trump on Friday said he isn’t considering ordering military attacks in Venezuela, two weeks after suggesting ground strikes were possible.

    Asked by reporters on Air Force One about reports that he is weighing airstrikes against Venezuela, Trump responded: “No, it’s not true.”

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  • Israel’s Top Military Lawyer Steps Down Amid Leak Controversy

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    The official resigned after an investigation was launched into her alleged role in authorizing the release of footage that appeared to show soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee.

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  • Argentina Has the World’s Weirdest Tax. Can Milei Scrap it?

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    Argentina’s export tax hurts its critical agricultural industry. President Javier Milei has yet to follow through on a promise to end it.

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  • The Long Road to a U.S.-China Trade Pact

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    In March, Sen. Steve Daines traveled to Beijing with a group of American chief executives in hopes of calming a tense trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

    Weeks earlier, President Trump had added an additional 20% in tariffs on China over what he said was its role in the fentanyl trade. The Montana senator and close Trump ally, who lived in China and Hong Kong for six years in the 1990s as an executive for Procter & Gamble, saw an opening to smooth things over.

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  • Trump Pivots Second Term Toward Foreign Policy

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    BUSAN, South Korea—President Trump wrapped up his six-day swing through Asia by touting trade deals and new investments in the U.S. But as he arrives back in Washington, the gold-plated receptions abroad are giving way to a shuttered government and deepening voter anxiety about the economy.

    The split screen sheds light on why Trump has turned much of his second-term attention to foreign policy.

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  • U.S. Eyes Striking Venezuelan Military Targets Used for Drug Trafficking

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    The Trump administration has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. If President Trump decides to move forward with airstrikes, they said, the targets would send a clear message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that it is time to step down.

    While the president hasn’t made a final decision on ordering land strikes, the officials said a potential air campaign would focus on targets that sit at the nexus of the drug gangs and the Maduro regime. Trump and his senior aides have been particularly focused on unsettling Maduro as the U.S. military has attacked boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

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  • Dutch Hard-Right Leader Geert Wilders Set to Exit Power

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    Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders’s hard-right Freedom Party was on the brink of losing power after elections in the Netherlands on Wednesday, indicating that Europe’s populist politicians who draw strong support while in opposition can struggle once they are in government.

    The Freedom Party was on track to place second in parliamentary elections, according to exit polls, with a sharp drop in support, as voters punished Wilders’s party for failing to deliver on its promises.

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  • U.S. Reduces Troop Numbers in Romania, Signaling Shifting Priorities

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    The Pentagon will no longer rotate Army combat brigades through Romania as part of a strategy that focuses on Asia and Latin America.

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  • Bank of Canada Exhausts Tools to Help Tariff-Battered Economy

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    OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada signaled it has emptied its toolbox to help an economy hurting from the trade row with the U.S.

    Canada’s central bank cut its main interest rate on Wednesday, to 2.25%, and said the rate is “at about the right level” to keep inflation intact at its 2% target. It’s taking this approach even though its own economic outlook is bleak over the next two years.

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  • On Trump’s Asia Trip, Many Opportunities Were Golden

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    GYEONGJU, South Korea—A golden crown in a golden city. Golden desserts served by a foreign leader donning a golden tie. A golden golf ball for the man proclaiming to have ushered in a “golden age.”

    For President Trump, much of his whirlwind diplomatic tour across Asia was golden—often quite literally.

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  • Trump Tells Asia Allies: It’s Your Turn to Boost Military Spending

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    GYEONGJU, South Korea—Amid the pageantry and backslapping, President Trump’s weeklong Asian swing drew attention to a sour point for allies: The U.S. demand that they spend more to respond to a rising threat of Chinese aggression.

    Washington first pressured Europeans to boost their military budgets shortly after Trump took office in January. That push ultimately proved successful, with many allies pledging to increase spending.

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  • Trump Hails Golden Era in Japan Relations

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    The president heaped praise on Japan’s first female prime minister as the two leaders pledged to renew their countries’ alliance aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier.

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  • Japan-U.S. Outline Investment Plan; Trump Says Toyota to Invest $10 Billion in U.S. Auto Plants

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    TOKYO—President Trump said Japanese auto giant Toyota is poised to invest $10 billion in auto plants in the U.S., coming as Tokyo released some details about the over half a trillion dollars it has pledged to invest in America as part of a trade deal.

    Trump made the remark while addressing U.S. military personnel in Japan, saying that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told him of the carmaker’s plan.

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  • Shinzo Abe’s Killer Says ‘I Did It’ as Trial Begins

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    A 45-year-old man admitted to killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022, and his defense team asked the court for leniency at the opening of his trial.

    Tetsuya Yamagami fired a homemade gun at Abe while the former leader addressed a campaign rally in the city of Nara, Japan. He was immediately arrested. Abe was hit twice and died shortly afterward, aged 67.

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