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...Several prominent US lawmakers will travel to Taipei in the coming weeks in a show of support for Lai Ching-te, who will be inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president in May following his election victory on...
...to attack Nato member states which don’t make the necessary contributions to the Nato budget....
...“As we have done previously following a Taiwan presidential election, the US government has asked former senior officials to travel in their private capacity to Taiwan....
...This will allow Trump to more easily direct party resources towards his political needs — and possibly even his legal bills — rather than down-ballot candidates in congressional and state elections....
...So I’ve come back to this lush and lavish island, which has one of the highest concentrations of wealth in America — some estimates put the number of billionaires with homes here as high as 57 in less than...
...Friday 70th anniversary of the first hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. 40th anniversary of the UK’s National Coal Board announcing the closure of Cortonwood Colliery in South...
...Bluebell Capital Partners, which has $120mn in assets, also said BlackRock’s 17-member board was too large and criticised an “unequivocal failure” in governance....
...But rather than incorporate the island into China, Zheng, also known as Koxinga, made it his base for fighting the Manchurian Qing dynasty that had conquered China in 1644....
...Bank of England watchers are expecting a rate cut. The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June....
...And also joining me are Political Fix regulars, the FT’s Miranda Green. Hi, Miranda. Miranda GreenHello, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...cent as the president tries to shore up support among union workers in Pennsylvania ahead of November’s election....
...Elections: Michigan is the latest state to hold its presidential primary vote. The state has a large Arab-American population and has become a centre of opposition to the war in Gaza....
...Hello and welcome to the working week. US presidential election primary season reaches a peak this week, as delegates in 15 states vote for Republican and Democrat candidates on Super Tuesday....
...The arrests came just days after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz returned from a state visit to China, his country’s biggest trading partner....
...And in fact, I was talking to a member of the House Lords recently who said, well, of course Sunak will get his bill....
...In August, he proposed an across-the-board 10 per cent tariff on imports. “I think we should have a ring around the collar, as they say,” Trump told Fox Business....
...His administration is keen to emphasise labour market strength in an election year when he has to overcome a deficit in the polls against his likely opponent, former president Donald Trump....
...election....
...China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and reserves the option to take the island with force if Taipei resists unification....
...China has frequently leaned on Taiwanese businesses to support the Kuomintang, the opposition party that views Taiwan as part of a greater Chinese nation, in past elections....
...ahead of the November presidential election....
...People familiar with Peltz’s thinking said his main issues were with Disney’s share price and its margins as well as the board’s decision in July to extend chief executive Bob Iger’s tenure as chief by two...
...Officials across Europe are warning of an “avalanche of disinformation” from Russia aimed at weakening support for Ukraine and interfering with EU elections in June....
...Isabel Schnabel, the most hawkish member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, warned that the “last mile remains a concern” in the fight against inflation and that cutting rates too soon risked...
...by election fraud in front of a crowd of his supporters....
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