Published: 10:00pm, 15 Oct 2025Updated: 10:39pm, 15 Oct 2025
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1. Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called China “economically hostile” for not buying American soybeans and threatened to halt imports of cooking oil and other products from the country in retaliation.
2. ‘Red gift bag’: US national security expert arrested over classified documents
Ashley Tellis, a prominent Indian-American national security expert and long-time US adviser, has been accused of hoarding classified documents and repeatedly meeting Chinese officials, stirring concern over possible Beijing ties and jolting Washington’s foreign policy circles.
3. Heated US-China trade war could put fire in Beijing’s belly: scholars
As China’s fourth plenum and new five-year plan approach, analysts say a trade conflict with the US could sideline other issues and create unity.