China and the US agreed to mutual tariff reductions worth $30 billion following the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the United States. According to China’s Foreign Ministry, the sides also extended the bilateral trade truce, known as the «Busan Agreement», until January 10, 2027.

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Major American TV networks resumed work in the White House television pool after several days of boycott, which they began because of Donald Trump’s ban on journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. On Friday, for the first time during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit, the pool showed live his arrival at the White House and the subsequent events involving the U.S. president.

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U.S. President Donald Trump personally greeted Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where the Chinese leader arrived for a three-day visit to the United States. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the sides had agreed to extend the current 11-month trade truce until January 10.

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The Kremlin said that a meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, in November has not yet been scheduled. The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, said that, hypothetically, such contact cannot be ruled out if the leaders happen to be in the same place.

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At the Russian Antiwar Committee conference held last week in Strasbourg, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov debated with columnist Tatyana Rybakova about the prospects for the Russian economy in the fifth year of the war in Ukraine. We publish the most interesting parts of their conversation

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Of course, technologies are not yet capable of fully replacing the charisma and intellect of a real person. Even the richest and most powerful are mortal. But what seemed like science fiction in the 20th century (cryogenically frozen «leaders,» endless organ transplants, supercomputers making state decisions) is gradually taking shape as a scientific project in the 21st century. Authoritarian immortality is now not only a metaphor but also a goal that commands significant resources.

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Two autocrats – and Chairman Xi – talked last week in Beijing about the perception of age (at 70, still boys) and eternal life, which will soon become possible thanks to organ transplants; in any case, living to 150 is not a problem at all. However, in the Russian case, the Constitution will have to be changed once again so that the presidential terms of the current head of state are not limited to 2036 but extend much further in time. But that is definitely not a problem.

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China used the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II to showcase high-tech weaponry and assert its claims to global leadership

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