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15.03.26 - 21:48
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Bessent Leads Trade Talks With China In Paris Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit (ZeroHedge)
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Bessent Leads Trade Talks With China In Paris Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit
Ahead of the upcoming Trump-Xi summit, China and US have begun a fresh round of trade talks to set the stage for the main event.
Trade negotiators led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and China's Vice Premier He Lifeng held talks in Paris on Sunday to map out plans for a leaders' summit later this month. The first day of the talks concluded around 6 pm local time, and the delegations will meet again on Monday, Bloomberg reported. The trade negotiators are expected to review the latest developments in a truce reached in November and discuss topics including the war in Iran as well as investment and purchases.
According to Bloomberg, Bessent, Greer and He have a history of bilateral negotiations. They met in Geneva last May to launch a series of talks that saw follow-on sessions in London, Stockholm, Madrid and Kuala Lumpur. That resulted in a truce under which Washin...
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15.03.26 - 21:48
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Trump Administration Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee From TikTok U.S. Deal (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Administration Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee From TikTok U.S. Deal
The Trump administration is poised to receive roughly $10 billion in payments from investors involved in the recently completed transaction to take control of TikTok's U.S. operations, delivering an unusual financial windfall tied to the government's role in keeping the popular social-media platform active in the United States.
ByteDance is the Chinese parent of TikTok. John G Mabanglo/EPA/Shutterstock
The payments are part of the arrangement under which a consortium of admin-aligned investors took control of TikTok's American business from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. The payments are separate from the capital investors committed to establish a new entity that now operates the platform in the U.S.
Backers of the deal include cloud-computing firm Oracle, private-equity company Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi investor MGX. Those investor...
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15.03.26 - 19:51
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Anduril Lands $20 Billion Pentagon Contract For "Modern Battlefield" Hardware (ZeroHedge)
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Anduril Lands $20 Billion Pentagon Contract For "Modern Battlefield" Hardware
Nine days after Axios reported that Palmer Luckey's Anduril was raising around $4 billion at a $60 billion valuation led by a16z and Thrive Capital, Luckey landed a major enterprise contract with the US Army worth up to $20 billion over 10 years.
Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Announced on Friday, the deal features a five-year base period with an option to extend for another five years - and includes over 120 separate procurement actions into a single agreement which covers the full range of Anduril's commercial solutions - including hardware, software, infrastructure, data, computer systems, and technical support services.
"The modern battlefield is increasingly defined by software. To maintain our advantage, we must be able to acquire and deploy software capabilities with speed and efficiency," said Gabe Chiulli, chief technology officer at the Department of War's Offi...
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15.03.26 - 19:31
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Eric Trumps neues Buch „Kampf um Amerika“ (Tichys Einblick)
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Sucht man nach einem Erklärungsmodell für die Denk- und Handlungsweise der Demokratischen Partei und ihrer Anhänger in den USA, muss der Hass auf Donald Trump und Elon Musk stets an erster Stelle stehen. Keiner der anderen Faktoren, wie das Postulat offener Grenzen oder die unbedingt positive Sichtweise auf jegliche Form von Einwanderung, kommt dem „Trump-Musk-Faktor“
Der Beitrag Eric Trumps neues Buch „Kampf um Amerika“ erschien zuerst auf Tichys Einblick....
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15.03.26 - 18:18
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Trump ′Not Ready′ For Iran Deal; US Urges Citizens To Flee Iraq, Israel Reportedly ′Critically Low′ On Interceptors (ZeroHedge)
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Trump 'Not Ready' For Iran Deal; US Urges Citizens To Flee Iraq, Israel Reportedly 'Critically Low' On Interceptors
Summary:
Iranian retaliation accelerates, including use of cluster munitions, especially against Israel
Gulf countries reported new attacks Sunday morning, a day after Iran called for the evacuation of three major ports in the United Arab Emirates.
Iran says it targeted U.S. forces at Saudi base with missiles
Israel reportedly running low on missile interceptors
Iran arrests dozens accused of spying for Israel amid escalating conflict
World's largest Aluminum smelter shutdown
Araghchi said the strait was only shut to US ships and those of its allies
Trump not ready to reach a deal with Iran yet
Days after President Trump told reporters that Iran has "shot everything they have to shoot" and has "nothing left," Iran continues to rain retaliatory fire down on the region. Amid fresh imagery of fires burning around Tel Avi...
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15.03.26 - 17:18
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Druck auf US-Sender wegen Iran-Berichterstattung (DPA-AFX)
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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Wegen der Berichterstattung über den Iran-Krieg erhöht die US-Medienaufsicht den Druck auf Rundfunksender. Wer Falschnachrichten verbreite, dem drohe ein Lizenzverlust, schrieb Brendan Carr, Chef der Medienaufsichtsbehörde Federal ......
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15.03.26 - 17:09
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USA und China starten neue Handelsgespräche in Paris (DPA-AFX)
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PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Vertreter der USA und Chinas haben in Paris eine neue Runde von Handelsgesprächen begonnen. Der Beginn der Konsultationen wurde von der staatlichen chinesischen Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua bestätigt. Das Treffen gilt als Vorbereitung für ......
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