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Americas only rare-earths producer has agreed a deal to ship output from its new processing plant to Japan, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The move comes amid a push by Washington to upgrade relations with allies and reduce Chinas role in their critical minerals supply chains.

US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo on Tuesday warned companies in China and around the world that they will be punished if they keep doing business with Russia in violation of US sanctions, according to a Bloomberg report.

With the Russia-Ukraine conflict set to enter the second year, Western calls for resolve to fight a long war in Ukraine seem to have left the worlds emerging-markets increasingly frustrated about the future outlook as their needs for a peaceful development environment have been largely ignored.

Global luxury conglomerates LVMH and Kering cheered the return of Chinese consumers after China readjusted its COVID management and reopened to the world, expressing confidence in a strong market recovery in the country, the most promising market for luxury products.

NATO’s 2030 agenda, as published recently on its website, bears the headline “relations with partners in the Indo-Pacific region.” NATO is coming to Asia.

The US has taken a substantial step in encouraging Japan to rearm itself. Japanese Minister of Defense Yasukazu Hamada said on Tuesday that Japan plans to order Tomahawk cruise missiles in one go from the US within the 2023 fiscal year, rather than the initial plan that will take several years.

Washington’s attempt to lure Manila into its anti-China orbit has become more evident recently. It is now using every opportunity to sow discord between China and the Philippines in a bid to rope in Manila to its side to jointly contain China.

The Norwegian Consulate General in Shanghai, the Scandinavian Tourist Board and the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) jointly held the Norwegian Froztventure in Shanghai on Friday, in a bid to promote Norways tourism resources and seafood.

The West has long believed that there is only one modernity, and that is Western modernity. The origins of this belief lie in the fact that modernization began in the West with Britain’s Industrial Revolution and then spread to Europe and the US. As late as 1900, the West enjoyed a virtual monopoly of modernization, the exception being Japan, the only non-Western country to industrialize in the 19th century. Japanese modernity was very distinct from Western modernity, and still is. But this di...

The US is weaponizing the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and trying to set up an anti-China front to serve Americas adventurism, experts warned on Monday, following the US announcement that it has made