CNBC TV18 PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA – China's President Xi Jinping and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim hold a bilateral meeting amid Xi's Southeast Asia tour.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim welcomes visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping for bilateral talks, Memorandum of Understanding, and a dinner.
China's President Xi Jinping called for support for the international system centred around the United Nations, trade and the rule of law as he continued on a Southeast Asian tour amid a sharp deterioration in China-U.S. relations.
Xi is in Malaysia as part of a three-nation Southeast Asian trip that includes Vietnam and Cambodia, to consolidate ties with some of China's closest neighbours as trade tensions with the United States escalate.
"We must uphold the multilateral trading system, keep global industrial and supply chains stable, and maintain an international environment of openness and cooperation," Xi said.
Xi's comments come after U.S. President Donald Trump, who took office in January, shocked markets by imposing sweeping tariffs on countries across the world.
While some of the tariffs have since been delayed, Beijing faces 145% duties.
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The swift move was in response to a policy issued late Tuesday by the White House, which suffered a courtroom loss last week over The Associated Press’ ability to cover Trump. The plans, the latest attempt by the new administration to control coverage of its activities, sharply curtail the access of three news agencies that serve billions of readers around the world.
...McFadden agreed with AP’s argument that the government cannot punish the news organization for what it says — for exercising its right to free speech. . .
The administration has appealed McFadden’s ruling, and is scheduled to be in an appeals court on Thursday to argue that ruling should be put on hold until the merits of the case are fully decided, perhaps by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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“The best way to put it, I think, is either we die quickly or we die slowly,” Hay said, according to Politico. She plans to leave by May 1.
Dubbed the Pentagon’s “SWAT team of nerds,” the DDS was created in 2015 with the aim to modernize defense operations with fast tech fixes and digital tools for the military.
Hay’s 14 person team was reportedly blindsided at being sidelined by DOGE, having expected the DDS, with its tech talent, to be brought into Musk’s drive to automate operations at the Pentagon and integrate AI.
“The reason we stuck it out as long as we have is that we thought we were going to be called in,” Hay told Politico.
Instead, DOGE appears to have followed a familiar playbook, cutting employees and pressuring them to quit. Hay and 11 DDS staffers are taking President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation package.
Every employee interviewed by Politico said they would have stayed if not for DOGE.
An unidentified departing team member said that with the resignations, critical initiatives—like improving the Pentagon’s tech talent pipeline and countering enemy drones—will be abandoned.
A former senior Pentagon official dismissed DOGE’s supposed mission to eliminate “waste and fraud,” arguing Musk’s brainchild is essentially a wrecking ball.
“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.
DOGE’s cost-cutting crusade has already shuttered other digital modernization programs, including the General Services Administration’s 18F program. Staff there—who built open-source digital tools for government use—had less time to resign, losing access to their email accounts immediately after receiving an overnight shutdown notice on March 1.
A Pentagon spokesperson told Politico the office’s functions would be absorbed by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAIO), the broader department it falls under.
When reached for comment, a press officer at the Department of Defense told the Daily Beast, “We don’t have anything to provide on this currently.”
Trump raised the idea in talks on Monday with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele -- the self-proclaimed "world's coolest dictator" who has already taken detained migrants from the United States into his country's jails.
But the 78-year-old Republican doubled down on the idea of sending US citizens to El Salvador too, amid fundamental questions about whether it would actually be legal.
"I call them homegrown criminals," Trump said according to excerpts of an interview with Fox Noticias, a Spanish-language program being broadcast later Tuesday.. .
"We are looking into it and we want to do it. I would love to do it."
The iron-fisted Bukele made the extraordinary offer to take in prisoners from the United States shortly after Trump's inauguration for a second term.
Trump has already sent more than 250 migrants there, mostly under a centuries-old wartime law that deprives them of due process -- in exchange for a fee of $6 million paid to El Salvador.
But he has increasingly started talking about sending US citizens to foreign jails too.
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