OCTOBER 27, 2025
The US and China have agreed a framework for a trade deal only days before Donald Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, are due to meet. Photograph: Damir Šagolj/Reuters
The US and China have agreed a framework for a trade deal only days before Donald Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, are due to meet.
The treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said the agreement, forged on Sunday on the sidelines of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Malaysia, would remove the threat of the imposition of 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting on 1 November and include “a final deal” on the sale of TikTok in the US.
Trump arrived in Malaysia yesterday for the summit, his first stop in a five-day Asia tour that is expected to culminate in a face-to-face meeting with Xi in South Korea on Thursday.
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What about other trade deals that are still up in the air? There were hopes of a truce between the US and Brazil after what President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described as a positive meeting with Trump in Malaysia. He said their respective teams would start discussing tariffs and other matters “immediately”.
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And Canada? Trump said Saturday that he would raise US tariffs by 10% in retaliation for an advertisement sponsored by the Ontario government that accurately quoted Ronald Reagan at length saying tariffs don’t work.
Republican senator calls Trump’s military airstrikes ‘extrajudicial killings’
The Trump administration’s military airstrikes against boats off Venezuela’s coast that the White House claims were being used for drug trafficking are “extrajudicial killings”, said Rand Paul, the president’s fellow Republican and US senator from Kentucky.
Paul’s strong comments came on Sunday on the Republican-friendly Fox News, three days after Trump publicly claimed he “can’t imagine” federal lawmakers would have “any problem” with the strikes when asked about seeking congressional approval for them.
Courtesy/Source: The Guardian
