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Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit, Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Ignore U.S. Sanctions On "Teapot" Refineries President Donald Trump is set to travel to Beijing in mid-May for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first U.S. presidential visit to China in eight years, and a meeting already delayed once by the Iran war. The pair will obviously discuss the U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting energy shock, which has hit Asia fastest and hardest. There is no shortage of issues for the two leaders to discuss, including Taiwan, trade, AI chip...

Amb. Huckabee Claims Israel Has 'Biblical Right' To Conquer Whole Middle East In a jaw-dropping exchange with Tucker Carlson, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee openly framed Israel's territorial claims in biblical terms - suggesting the Jewish state has a divine mandate over virtually the entire region. Asked whether a passage from the Book of Genesis could be read as granting Israel the right to claim all the land between Egypt's Nile River and Syria's Euphrates, Huckabee didn't hedge. He bluntly and without apology said it would be "fine" if Israel...

South Korea Gives Almonty's Major Tungsten Mine Final Green Light To Supply The West Bloomberg reports that Almonty Industries has secured final administrative approval from South Korean authorities to commercially process tungsten at its Sangdong mine. The approval positions Sangdong to begin supplying major Western customers and accelerate supply chain decoupling from China for the critical industrial metal. As Beijing restricts tungsten exports, the West's looming rearmament cycle adds urgency to securing conflict-free supplies. South Korea granted Almonty inspection certificates last Thursday that authorize commercial operation of Sangdong's processing plant and...