- July 4th, 2025

As the July 9 deadline approaches for the expiration of a crucial freeze on U.S. tariffs targeting South Korean exports, South Korea’s Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo is heading to Washington with a high-stakes mission: to request an extension and avert...

A $13.9 billion deal to deliver advanced fighter jets to Indonesia—an agreement years in the making—now teeters on the edge as a sudden escalation in U.S. trade policy threatens to upend one of Southeast Asia’s most strategically significant defense partnerships....