President Donald Trump and officials from China announced that they have agreed on a framework for a trade deal between the two major economic powers.

Beijing has gained time to build up its own strengths by drawing out negotiations with the United States, using its chokehold over critical minerals.

President Donald Trump's eventful week included securing a preliminary trade deal with China, deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles, and responding to Israel's strikes on Iran.

United States and Chinese officials said they had agreed on a framework for a trade truce, which removed China's export restrictions on rare earths.

The tentative deal between the United States and China may represent a retreat from the worst-case scenario of a total collapse of trade between the world's two biggest economies, but it creates more problems than it solves.

The United States and China have agreed on a framework to implement their trade truce, officials on both sides said Wednesday, after concluding two days of talks in London to defuse tensions and ease export restrictions that threaten to disrupt global manufacturing.

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If a handshake agreement holds, it will merely undo some of the damage from the trade war that President Trump started.

Severely condemning Pakistan's alignment with China in the "ongoing genocide in Occupied East Turkistan", the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) on Saturday expressed grave concern over Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Asim Munir's visit to the United States.

The Trump administration says its reviewing a deal to sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia over concerns that the U.S. is not producing enough of its own.

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three times the size of the U.S. system.

Two days of trade talks resulted in what leaders called a framework agreement meant to solidify terms of a truce that the superpowers reached in Geneva last month.