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Bessent Blames China For Derailing G20 Joint Communique The Group of 20 finance meetings in Asheville, North Carolina, concluded on Tuesday after four days of discussions among finance ministers and central bank chiefs on global trade. The news late Tuesday was that China had derailed the group's efforts to issue a joint communiqué by refusing to endorse specific language targeting trade surpluses and export-dependent economic models. "The country with the world's largest and unsustainable current account surplus, the People's Republic of China, was the dissenter," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told...

China Dominates The Humanoid Robot Race. Can Trump Close The Gap? It should surprise no one that new data from Smart Analytics Global, cited by Bloomberg, shows that Chinese humanoid robot makers accounted for a staggering 97% of global shipments in the first half of 2026. The figures come as the Trump administration increasingly recognizes that humanoids will be critical to the emerging physical AI era, creating an urgent need to build out America's robot supply chain, including motors, actuators, sensors, batteries, and AI models. via Barclays. Smart Analytics Global said global...