Won’t tolerate China trade ‘abuse’: Trump
Donald Trump delivered a stinging rebuke to China’s trade practices at the United Nations General Assembly, saying he would not accept a “bad deal” in Us-china trade negotiations.
Trump emphasised the need to correct structural economic abuses at the heart of the countries’ nearly 15-month-long trade war. He said Beijing had failed to keep promises that it made when China joined the WTO in 2001 and was engaging in predatory practices that had cost millions of jobs in the US and other countries.
Speaking of China’s “market barriers, heavy state subsidies, currency manipulation, and product dumping forced technology transfers”, Trump said, “as America is concerned, those days are over.”
Trump also denounced Iran’s “blood lust” and called on other nations to join the US to pressure Iran after attacks on Saudi oil facilities, but said there is a path to peace.
“America knows that while anyone can make war, only the most courageous can choose peace,” Trump said.
China believes India and Pakistan should resolve their disputes peacefully and will support any move conducive to improving relations, China’s new ambassador to New Delhi, Sun Weidong, said.
“It would not only create a stable environment... but also helps maintain regional peace and tranquillity,” Sun said in an interview.
Sun said China and India should see each other as a positive factor in the changing international landscape.
The Supreme Court has given the Union government three weeks to submit details of its progress in coming up with regulations to prevent misuse of social media, while protecting the privacy of individuals.
The court is hearing a case in which Facebook wants petitions filed in the high courts of Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh to be transferred to the Supreme Court. Most of the petitions deal with the regulation of social media. The Madras one also deals with the possibility of linking social media accounts with the Aadhaar numbers of users and of social media companies not responding to requests from law enforcement agencies.
A bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Deepak Gupta said the government has to frame the regulations and that courts are not the right fora to deal with the issue. It added that the issue spans the state’s sovereignty, an individual’s privacy, and the imperative of preventing illegal activities. The hearing before the SC is important because most social media companies claim intermediary protection.
Two months into the post as British PM, Boris Johnson on Tuesday faced growing demands to resign in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that his decision to prorogue parliament in the run-up to Brexit on October 31 is “unlawful”.
The court said, “This court has … concluded that the prime minister’s advice to Her Majesty (to suspend parliament) was unlawful, void and of no effect. This means that the order in council to which it led was also unlawful, void and of no effect should be quashed.” House of Commons speaker John Bercow called for the reopening of parliament on Wednesday, while Johnson, on a visit to New York, said he disagreed with it and indicated that he could again suspend parliament.