“Yes, we’re talking to China”

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Trump surprises: “Yes, we’re talking to China”

Trump promises an agreement with the EU at the customs dispute. US central bank boss Jerome Powell is considered a strict critic of customs policy, and he threatens to dismiss. All developments in the news blog.

According to their own statements, the US armed forces destroyed the Ras Isa oil port controlled by the Huthi militia in Yemen. The aim was to support the fighters from Iran an important source of financing, said the central command of the US military (Centcom) responsible for the Middle East. The militia finances its military activities with revenue from the sale of fuel imported across the port.

“The aim of these attacks was to weaken the economic power of the Huthi, who continue to exploit their compatriots and add great suffering,” the statement said. The US military did not give details of the use and possible victims. The Huthi-Nahse broadcaster Al-Masirah reported, however, that the attack was killed in 17 people and dozens were injured. The information could not be checked independently.

In Yemen, the capital Sanaa and other regions of the country are under the control of the militia support from Iran. Since the outbreak of the Gaza War in October 2023, the Huthi has repeatedly attacked ships with Israel reference in the Red Sea with Islamist Hamas.

US President Donald Trump confirmed talks with China in the customs conflict for the first time. “Yes, we’re talking to China,” said Trump in the White House on Thursday. Beijing has already “registered” several times with his government. However, Trump reacted alternately to the question of whether he was on the phone with the Chinese head of state Xi Jinping. He called it “inappropriate” to comment on it.

The Chinese government had recently given itself hard and had conditions for negotiations. Before that, “the threats and extortion would have to stop,” said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Beijing towards the USA. China wants to be treated “based on equality, respect and mutual benefit”.

The US tariffs imposed by Trump on Chinese imports now add up to 145 percent. China reacted with counter-tariffs to US goods of 125 percent.

US President Donald Trump once again attacked the former government of his democratic predecessor Joe Biden with drastic words. “They were useless. They were incapable,” said the Republican at a meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the White House. The bidet government was the “worst in the history of the United States”-even “worse than that of Jimmy Carter,” said Trump. “Jimmy Carter died as a happy man. You know why? Because he wasn’t the worst president. That was Joe Biden.”

Carter died last December at the age of 100. The Democrat held the presidency from 1977 to 1981. After his death, the then President Biden ordered a 30-day funeral period. As a result, the US flags of public buildings blew while Trump’s second inauguration in January-which met with significant trouble at Trump.

Every year on May 9, Russia celebrated the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with a military parade in Moscow. This year, connoisseurs of the spectacle expect a special show because the anniversary of the 80th anniversary. A cell phone video circulating on the Internet is now supposed to show preparations for the victory parade – and makes military experts take notice. Read exactly what can be seen in the video here.

The Bundestag excludes the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus from the central commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War on May 8. Parliament President Julia Klöckner (CDU) invited the diplomatic corps to which all ambassadors in Berlin belong to participation in the grandstand of the Bundestag, according to the Bundestag. However, she took into account the Federal Government’s assessment of the invitation of representatives of other countries. “This assessment caused the ambassadors of the Russian Federation and Belarus not invited.” Read here how the Ukrainian ambassador in Germany, Oleksii Makeieev reacts.