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1. Trump cuts tariffs on beef, coffee and other foods, in inflation U-turn

   US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to exempt a wide range of food imports, including beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas, from sweeping tariffs imposed earlier this year on nearly every country, the White House said. The order is part of a major push by Trump and his top officials to address Americans’ growing concerns about persistently high grocery prices. The new...

2. Flooded Thai restaurant lets customers dine with live fish

   A restaurant in central Thailand was bursting with a stream of customers coming for a unique dining experience: enjoying a meal while sitting in floodwaters, surrounded by live fish they bring into the establishment. Since an adjacent river breached its banks 11 days ago, the flooded riverside restaurant has become an internet sensation, drawing customers keen to pose in the lapping brown water...

3. Why China studies scholars in the West have been left in ‘crisis’ mode

   As China’s global influence grows, the landscape of China studies is undergoing a profound transformation. Scholars both within China and internationally are confronting new challenges, from escalating geopolitical tensions and mutual distrust – especially between Washington and Beijing – to increasingly limited access, making research and academic collaboration more difficult than ever. Some...

4. A very Chinese funeral and all the things my family didn’t say

   I never thought I would write about my grandfather’s funeral – my paternal grandfather’s, to be exact. The distinction matters, for all the years spent memorising how to address everyone in the family properly. Unlike in English, where “grandma” and “grandpa” suffice, the Chinese have entirely different words for maternal and paternal grandparents. These words also vary from region to region. I...

5. Trump calls Thailand and Cambodia after new clashes upend his ceasefire deal

   US President Donald Trump called Thailand and Cambodia on Friday to bolster the peace deal he brokered after fresh clashes erupted between the Southeast Asian neighbours, the White House said. Trump co-signed a truce between the two countries on October 26 during a tour of Asia, touting it as one of several peace deals around the world that he believes should win him the Nobel Prize. But...

6. Anthropic warns of first reported AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China

   A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it had disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers had linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use of an artificial intelligence system to direct the hacking...

7. Nexperia civil war erupts as Chinese and Dutch arms trade blows

   The crisis surrounding the chipmaker Nexperia erupted into a war of words on Friday, with the company’s Chinese and Dutch arms trading barbs, while Beijing slammed the Dutch minister involved. The fiery exchange, which took place over several hours late on Friday evening, will raise tensions ahead of crunch government talks in the Chinese capital next week aimed at resolving the future of the...

8. Beijing warns Japan after PM’s Taiwan comments fuel concerns of nuclear shift

   Beijing on Friday voiced deep concern and issued a stern warning to Tokyo against shifting its non-nuclear policy, after comments by Japan’s prime minister about Taiwan sharply escalated tensions between the two countries. Sanae Takaichi, who took office on October 21, has been considering revising Japan’s long-standing non-nuclear weapons principles, Japanese media reported on Friday citing...

9. 3 killed as Stockholm bus slams into pedestrians

   A bus rammed into a bus stop queue during Stockholm’s afternoon rush hour on Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, police said. The driver had been arrested and a manslaughter investigation opened, according to police. But they gave no other details of the traumatic incident in the Ostermalm district of the Swedish capital. Shortly after the crash, a swarm of police officers,...

10. Trump demands probe of Epstein ties to Bill Clinton, amid scrutiny of own role

    The US Justice Department said on Friday that it would fulfil President Donald Trump’s request to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties with former Democratic president Bill Clinton and JPMorgan, as Trump sought to shift the focus from his relationship with the convicted sex offender. The move comes two days after a congressional committee released thousands of documents that raised new questions...