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Post by Admin on Jun 27, 2019 17:31:36 GMT
Donald Trump will be the center of attention at the Group of 20 summit in the Japanese city of Osaka this weekend, with high stakes trade and security talks on the agenda. The highest profile meetings will take place on Saturday morning, when Trump will meet Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman followed by talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Bloomberg reported, citing White House spokesman Hogan Gidley. The talks with the crown prince come amid the fallout of the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. After intelligence investigations suggested that the crown prince was most likely to be behind the murder of Khashoggi, Trump insisted the kingdom was a "great ally." Earlier this week, Trump repeated his defense of the kingdom, emphasizing to NBC News how much money Riyadh spends on U.S. weapons and products. Trump's meeting with President Xi comes as the U.S. continues its trade battle with China. He has already imposed 25 percent tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods and is looking to levy duties on the remaining $325 billion of goods the U.S. imports from the country, Politico reported. Trump has said that if no deal can be struck, he will go to "plan B" and impose billions of dollars of more tariffs, telling the Fox Business Network on Wednesday that this might comprise of a 10 percent duty. The trade spat with China is also expected to be high on the agenda in Trump's first meeting at the G20 which takes place on Thursday with the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison.
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2019 5:13:28 GMT
The G20 is an annual meeting of leaders from the countries with the largest and fastest-growing economies. Its members account for 85% of the world's GDP, and two-thirds of its population. The group has no permanent staff of its own, so every year in December, a G20 country from a rotating region takes on the presidency. That country is then responsible for organising the next summit, as well as smaller meetings for the coming year. They can also choose to invite non-member countries along as guests. Spain is always invited. The first G20 meeting took place in Berlin in 1999, after a financial crisis in East Asia affected many countries around the world. The existing Group of Eight (G8) club of the world's richest economies was expanded to include fast-growing economies like China, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia – though the G8 has since dropped Russia and is now the G7.
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2019 7:08:11 GMT
Live: Trump holds press conference at G20 summit in Osaka, Japan
President Trump wraps his trip to the G20 world leaders' summit in Osaka, Japan with a press conference in front of U.S. and world media. Trump then jets off to South Korea for a meeting with President Moon on concerns over tension on the Korean Penninsula #FoxNewsLive #FoxNews
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Post by Admin on Jun 30, 2019 4:19:18 GMT
Trump says he is still hoping to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un when he visits the fortified strip dividing the two Koreas shortly.
He told a banquet in South Korea he was still "trying to work out" a meeting at the demilitarised zone (DMZ).
He invited Mr Kim in an apparently spontaneous tweet from the G20 summit in Japan on Saturday.
North Korea described the offer as interesting, but has not said whether Mr Kim will take it up.
Mr Trump is in South Korea to discuss the flagging North Korea denuclearisation talks and trade.
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2019 3:40:37 GMT
Eyebrows were raised when the US president’s daughter took centre stage alongside world leaders at the G20 summit. So what is Ivanka Trump’s White House job and how effective has she been? When Donald Trump and his advisers crossed over from South Korea into the heavily fortified demilitarized zone between North and South Korea over the weekend, the cameras were ready. Images of the president greeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as “my friend” in a last-minute meetup streamed across televisions worldwide. Trump wasn’t alone. After a few snapshots, Ivanka Trump, along with her husband, Jared Kushner, followed the president into what’s known as the Freedom House—a building on the South Korean side of the zone. That’s when the cameras stopped. The media was reportedly blocked from entering and covering the historic event. It wasn’t until later that reporters learned Ivanka and Kushner did more than accompany the president into the Freedom House. They were reportedly present at a closed-door meeting between the two leaders, who ended up speaking about one of the most sensitive topics on the planet—North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program.
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