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China's annual trade surplus hits a record $1.2 trillion, even as exports to U.S. decline by 20%
www.cnbc.com

... Exports surged 6.6% in U.S. dollar terms last month from a year earlier, topping Reuters-polled analysts' median estimate for a 3% growth.

Imports rose 5.7% in December from a year earlier, topping expectations for a 0.9% growth.

Shipments to the U.S. plunged 30% in December from a year ago, declining for a ninth straight month. ...


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Nicaraguan man arrested by ICE in Minnesota dies at Camp East Montana
www.elpasotimes.com

... A Nicaraguan immigrant arrested by ICE in Minneapolis has become the third detainee to die at Camp East Montana in El Paso while facing deportation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced. ...

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Treasury secretary defends Greenland tariffs: 'The national emergency is avoiding the national emergency'
www.nbcnews.com

... Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended proposed tariffs targeting eight European countries that oppose President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland, telling NBC News' "Meet the Press" that the goal is to avoid a future national emergency. ...

Asked by moderator Kristen Welker what national emergency justifies tariffs against countries that oppose Trump's Greenland ambitions, Bessent argued that "the national emergency is avoiding a national emergency." ...



How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle (July 2025)
www.bbc.com

... "I am the evidence," was the eyebrow-raising comment made by Donald Trump when he appeared before the Scottish Parliament in 2012.

He was speaking as an "expert" witness on green energy targets, describing how he believed wind turbines were damaging tourism in Scotland.

Five years before he first became US president, it was one of his earliest interventions on renewable energy - but since then his opposition to them has grown to become government policy in the world's biggest economy.

He was objecting to 11 turbines which were planned -- and ultimately constructed -- alongside his Aberdeenshire golf course.

On his latest visit to Scotland, he described those turbines as "some of the ugliest you've ever seen".

When Trump bought the Menie estate, about eight miles north of Aberdeen, in 2006, he promised to create the "world's greatest" golf course.

But he soon became infuriated at plans to construct an offshore wind farm nearby, arguing that the "windmills" -- as he prefers to call the structures -- would ruin the view. ...

They generate enough electricity to supply up to 80,000 homes but the wind farm was also built as a test and demonstration facility for new technology.

Trump battled the plans through the Scottish courts, then appealed to the UK's Supreme Court - but he was unable to stop the "monsters" from going ahead.

It clearly left him smarting and he's not had a good word to say about wind power since. ...

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... Last week brought some good news for the East Coast's struggling offshore wind industry.

Federal courts ruled three times for developers of northeast projects " one of them being New London-based Revolution Wind " which so far have succeeded, barely, in fighting back against the Trump administration's continuing effort to shut them down.

Trump has long opposed offshore wind turbines, dismissing them as ugly threats to bird and marine life that, if completed, will produce unreliable and prohibitively expensive electricity.

But the administration's latest stop work order " turned back at last temporarily in court by Revolution, New York's Empire Wind and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind " is based on the claim that a classified Pentagon report, one too secret to discuss, has identified offshore wind turbines as a threat to national security.

The security claim has met skepticism not only in court, but in Congress and elsewhere. The administration and Pentagon have so far refused to elaborate, but there is widespread belief that the claim is based on concern that enormous, revolving windmill blades interfere with military radar by producing unwanted images known as clutter.

If that is the claim, the wind industry and its supporters say the potential problem was identified by the Pentagon and resolved to its satisfaction years ago. ...

Whatever the reason for its latest concern, the Pentagon won't talk about it, even when pressed by powerful members of Congress with seats on committees that control the defense budget and weapons procurement. ...



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