Trump Says He Spoke with China’s Xi, Agreed on Farm Deal and State Visits

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said he held a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where the two discussed issues including the Ukraine war, fentanyl, and agricultural trade. Trump claimed the conversation led to an important deal benefiting U.S. farmers, particularly on soybean and farm product exports.

He described the call as a follow-up to their meeting in South Korea three weeks earlier, adding that both sides had made “significant progress” in implementing prior agreements. According to Trump, Xi invited him to visit Beijing in April, an invitation he accepted, while also extending an invitation for Xi to make a state visit to the United States later in the year.

Trump said both leaders agreed to maintain frequent communication moving forward.

Reference Sources

1. Truth Social -https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115605897178712132
2. CNBC - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/trump-xi-call-trade-taiwan-ukraine.html

China criticizes Japan's plan to deploy missiles on island near Taiwan

Japan's decision to deploy medium-range surface-to-air missiles to Yonaguni, a quiet Island near Taiwan, signals a strategic shift with implications far beyond Japan's immediate defence posture.

The deployment confirms what regional observers have long feared: Asia's most dangerous flash point is no longer confined to the Taiwan Strait alone, but has expanded to include the Southern reaches of Japan's Island chain, where the security anxieties of Japan, China and Taiwan intersect with unprecedented intensity. For Tokyo, the deployment is framed as necessary and defensive.

China called Japan's plan to deploy missiles on an island near Taiwan a deliberate attempt to "create regional tension and provoke military confrontation" on Monday, as a diplomatic dispute simmers between the two nations.

The remarks come amid their worst diplomatic crisis in years, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said this month that a hypothetical Chinese attack on democratically governed Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo.

Reference Sources

1. malaymail - Asia’s most dangerous flash point now rests in the south of Japan — Phar Kim Beng
2. pnagov - Japan, China leaders have no interaction at G20 summit
3. nikkei - Japan's Takaichi did not speak with China premier at G20 amid tensions
4. abc - Japan 'crossed a red line' with Taiwan military intervention remarks, Chinese foreign minister says
5. nbc - China criticizes Japan's plan to deploy missiles on island near Taiwan

Amazon to invest up to $50 billion in AI, supercomputing for US government clients

Amazon has announced that it will invest up to $50Bn to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing capacity for US government customers.

The project is expected to break ground in 2026 and will add nearly 1.3 GW of new AI and high-performance computing capacity across AWS's top secret, AWS secret and AWS GovCloud regions through new data centres equipped with advanced compute and networking systems.

One GW of computing power is roughly enough to power about 750,000 US households on average.

As part of the investment, agencies will have access to Amazon Web Services' AI tools, Anthropic's Claude family of models and Nvidia chips, as well as Amazon's custom Trainium AI chips.

The move follows similar announcements from Anthropic and Meta to expand AI data centres in the US.

Oracle, OpenAI and Softbank announced their Stargate joint venture in January, which aims to invest up to $500Bn in AI infrastructure in the US over the next four years.

Reference Sources

1. thestarmy - Amazon to invest up to $50 billion in AI, supercomputing for US government clients
2. cnbc - Amazon to spend up to $50 billion on AI infrastructure for U.S. government

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