{"id":169669,"date":"2025-10-27T23:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/first-thing-us-and-china-agree-framework-for-trade-deal-ahead-of-xi-trump-meeting-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:25:47","slug":"first-thing-us-and-china-agree-framework-for-trade-deal-ahead-of-xi-trump-meeting-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/first-thing-us-and-china-agree-framework-for-trade-deal-ahead-of-xi-trump-meeting-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: US and China agree \u2018framework\u2019 for trade deal ahead of Xi-Trump meeting – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

US treasury secretary anticipates tariff truce with China will be extended, and that Beijing will revive substantial purchases of US soybeans. Plus, is Wikipedia\u2019s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?
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The US and China have agreed a framework for a trade deal<\/a> only days before Donald Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, are due to meet.
The treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said the agreement, forged on Sunday on the sidelines of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Malaysia, would remove the threat of the imposition of 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting on 1 November and include \u201ca final deal\u201d on the sale of TikTok in the US.
Trump arrived in Malaysia yesterday for the summit, his first stop in a five-day Asia tour that is expected to culminate in a face-to-face meeting with Xi in South Korea on Thursday.
What about other trade deals that are still up in the air?<\/strong> There were hopes of a truce between the US and Brazil after what President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva described as a positive meeting with Trump in Malaysia. He said their respective teams would start discussing tariffs and other matters \u201cimmediately\u201d.
And Canada?<\/strong> Trump said Saturday that he would raise US tariffs by 10%<\/a> in retaliation for an advertisement<\/a> sponsored by the Ontario government that accurately quoted Ronald Reagan at length saying tariffs don\u2019t work.
The Trump administration\u2019s military airstrikes against boats off Venezuela\u2019s coast that the White House claims were being used for drug trafficking are \u201cextrajudicial killings\u201d<\/a>, said Rand Paul, the president\u2019s fellow Republican and US senator from Kentucky.
Paul\u2019s strong comments came on Sunday on the Republican-friendly Fox News, three days after Trump publicly claimed he \u201ccan\u2019t imagine\u201d federal lawmakers would have \u201cany problem\u201d with the strikes when asked about seeking congressional approval for them.
How many people have been killed in the airstrikes?<\/strong> US forces in recent weeks have carried out at least eight strikes against boats in the Caribbean off Venezuela\u2019s coast, killing about 40 people that the Trump administration has insisted were involved in smuggling drugs.
Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a powerful category 5 hurricane<\/a> today, threatening days of catastrophic winds and rain in the northern Caribbean.
Jamaica\u2019s government ordered mandatory evacuations for vulnerable areas across the country including in the capital, Kingston. Officials had earlier urged those in low-lying and flood-prone areas to seek refuge as Melissa rapidly climbs up the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
During a press conference in Kingston on Sunday, Jamaican authorities said both international airports were closed and 881 shelters had been activated.
What is the threat to Jamaica? <\/strong>\u201cMany of these communities will not survive the flooding. Kingston is extremely low,\u201d said Desmond McKenzie, the minister of local government.
Two US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani<\/a><\/strong>, the Democratic candidate favored to win the 4 November election for New York City mayor. Meanwhile, thousands of supporters packed Forest Hills stadium to hear him<\/a>.
The party of Argentina\u2019s far-right president, Javier Milei, has won yesterday\u2019s midterm elections<\/a> <\/strong>after a campaign in which Donald Trump announced a $40bn bailout for the country and made continued aid conditional on the victory of his Argentinian counterpart.
A recovery team has begun excavating the wreckage of a US P-47 Thunderbolt<\/a> that crashed <\/strong>in the UK in 1944<\/strong>. Parts of the aircraft, piloted by 2nd Lt Lester Lowry, will be repatriated to his home state of Pennsylvania.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country\u2019s biggest social assistance programs would not be issued in November amid the ongoing federal government shutdown. More than 41 million depend on the monthly payments<\/a>, according to the USDA.
In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the \u201cpeople\u2019s encyclopedia\u201d stands out \u2013 a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk calling it \u201cWokipedia\u201d and AI looming large, can it survive<\/a>?
After the removal of the four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, the largest project of its kind in US history, the once-imperiled waterway has begun to thrive again. Native plants now bloom along the banks, wildlife has returned and the river\u2019s ecosystems are regenerating from the microscopic level up. Recently 28 teenage tribal representatives celebrated this rebirth by becoming the first people in more than a century to kayak the entire 310-mile stretch<\/a> from the Cascades to the Pacific.
Authors will come to rely on artificial intelligence to help them beat writer\u2019s block<\/a>, the boss of the book publisher Bloomsbury has said. Nigel Newton, the founder and chief executive of the publisher behind the Harry Potter series, said the technology could support almost all creative arts, although it would not fully replace prominent writers.
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