As US-China relations lurch between escalation and detente, some local American officials are pursuing their own diplomacy to secure access to the world’s second-largest market.

China’s largest and most advanced warship has officially entered its military fleet, boosting Beijing’s ability to project naval power amid rising US concern about its assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.

Viktor Orban expected a political boon and a flood of investments after Donald Trump was re-elected to the US presidency. A year later, the Hungarian prime minister is going to the White House with cap in hand.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast, South Korea’s military said Friday, a day after Pyongyang bristled at US sanctions imposed on some of its bankers that Washington accused of laundering funds for the regime’s nuclear program.

The US Treasury Department has opened an investigation into $9 billion in “preference-based contracting,” including the awarding of Small Business Administration funds.