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Senators Plan Taiwan Trip Ahead Of Trump's Summit With Xi Jinping Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Four U.S. senators from both sides of the aisle are planning to visit Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea within the coming days to strengthen U.S. alliances that they see as critical to challenging China’s sphere of influence. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who serves as the ranking Democrat member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced the trip on March 28. Sens. John Curtis (R-Utah), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) will join her...

US Says Iran's Threat To Hormuz Traffic "Degraded" As 23 Nations Signal Waterway Support Three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration's central focus now is very clear: reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore the normal passage of crude and LNG tankers through a maritime chokepoint that carries roughly one-fifth of global oil and LNG flows. On Saturday morning, Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command and the official overseeing Operation Epic Fury, released an update on day 22 of the combat mission and stated: Iran...

"Blockbuster Week" Preview: Fed, ECB, BOJ On Deck, Earnings Avalanche, GDP, PCE Tomorrow marks exactly two months since the strikes on Iran began. As DB's Jim Reid writes, while there is currently a rolling, open ended ceasefire that started on 8 April, the risk of it collapsing at any point remains real. Just as the weekend news looked like it was leaning negatively though, last night reports came through that Iran have offered the US a fresh proposal to reopen the strait and end the war. However as Axios and...