Foreign Affairs
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Lula wins a fourth term in Brazil’s runoff as Flávio Bolsonaro vows to challenge the result
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva overcame a first-round deficit to defeat the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro by about 3.6 points, setting up a renewed test of relations with the Trump administration.
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Brazil votes today in a presidential runoff that final polls call too close to call
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro enter Sunday’s second round within the margin of error, with Brazilians in Northern California voting at a polling site in San Francisco’s Financial District and U.S.…
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Inquirer Investigation: U.S.-Mexico trade talks slow over steel, aluminum and auto tariffs
Mexico wants relief from 50 percent U.S. duties on steel and aluminum and a cut in vehicle tariffs to 15 percent from 25 percent, while the Trump administration says the metals tariffs are rebuilding domestic industry…
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Taiwan says Chinese coast guard ships trailed Japanese patrol vessels sheltering from Typhoon Champi
Eight Japan Coast Guard ships rode out the storm in the Taiwan Strait under Taiwanese monitoring, and Taipei says five Chinese vessels followed them in an effort to assert jurisdiction over waters that Beijing considers its…
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Treasury proposes wider limits on American investment in Chinese technology, reaching into biotech
A draft Treasury rule would bar U.S. investment in Chinese developers of advanced A.I. and a range of biotechnologies, with consequences for Bay Area venture capital and life sciences.
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As Washington and Beijing spar over AI, OpenAI steps back from the fight over chip sales to China
The San Francisco company has stopped pressing Congress for tighter export limits, Politico reported, just as China protested a U.S. ban on DeepSeek and Chinese tech giants placed more than $35 billion in orders for Nvidia…
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State Department says it has revoked more than 300,000 visas since January 2025
The figure, announced Tuesday, marks a sharp acceleration since summer and lands in the state that hosts more international students than any other.
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Fees on Chinese-built ships are set to return Nov. 10, and no notice extending the pause has been published
A two-month extension of the U.S.-China trade truce, announced in September, has not been written into the Federal Register, leaving the Port of Oakland, California exporters and West Coast carriers planning around a deadline that may…
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DeepSeek is said to be shaping Huawei’s AI chips, a new test for Nvidia and U.S. export policy
A report that Huawei engineers are working inside China’s best-known AI start-up adds pressure on Santa Clara’s Nvidia, and on a Washington chip policy that has loosened this year, a month before President Trump and Xi…
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Philippines summons China’s ambassador over remark that Beijing could ‘easily win’
Manila’s formal rebuke of Ambassador Jing Quan deepens a war of words between Beijing and a U.S. treaty ally, a dispute of particular interest in California, home to more than a third of the nation’s Filipino…