President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House.

Shipments fell because of the high tariffs China has imposed on U.S. imports and as previously harvested U.S. supplies, known as old-crop beans, have already been traded. China is the world’s biggest soybean importer.

A small group of countries led by China and Russia has repeatedly tried to block funding for human rights-related work at the United Nations over a five-year period, according to a report by the non-profit International Service for Human Rights.

Earlier this month, President Trump threatened to impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China starting next month.

China's Ministry of State Security accused the NSA of “long-term, highly covert, and employed state-level cyberespionage.”

The Dutch economy minister spoke to his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday but failed to find a solution to an impasse over chipmaker Nexperia BV, as Germany's car industry warned it faces possible production shortages if the situation is not resolved quickly.

China has reported that its economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July-September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand

China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of cyberattacks on its national time center. The Ministry of State Security claims the U.S. agency exploited vulnerabilities in a foreign mobile phone brand's messaging services in 2022.

China's been steadily upgrading its submarine fleet and weapons to detect those of the US should the two nations go to war.