President Donald Trump has extended a ban on Russian ships docking in U.S. ports, citing national security concerns. The move, announced in a U.S. Federal Register document published Thursday, continues a policy first enacted by his predecessor, Joe Biden, in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In the months prior to the November 2024 presidential election in the United States, Donald Trump claimed that if elected to office, he would end the war in Ukraine “in one day.” By Christmas Eve, the president-elect had moderated his claim,

IPA Senior Fellow and Chief Economist Adam Creighton believes the Ukraine-Russia conflict will end in a “couple of months”.

The possibility of sanctions being eased and an end to the war in Ukraine has some Western businesses and investors eying opportunities in Russia

By Arnaud Bertrand in Switzerland Fundamentally, the extreme tariffs on China are the exact same mistake as the sanctions on Russia and will have the same principal effect: to prove in the eyes of the world the impotence of the United States.

China on Thursday said that if the United States continues to play the "tariff numbers game", it will pay no attention to it, reported Reuters. China's foreign ministry made the comment in response to the White House's statement that China faces tariffs of up to 245% due to its retaliatory action.