In today’s Daily on Energy, we explore a newly approved graphite mining project in Alaska that will be covered by the federal government’s fast-track permitting program, also known as FAST-41.

TRUMP TALKS TRADE WITH CHINA’S XI JINPING: Earlier today, President Donald Trump held a lengthy phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss U.S.-China trade relations.

Tehran expected a bulwark from Beijing. Instead it got a bystander.

Trump "is obsessed with having a call with Xi," according to a news outlet, but China's leader would want assurances, an expert told Newsweek.

In 2024, Xinhua also argued that Jinping’s “commitment to reform was influenced by his father, Xi Zhongxun, a champion of reform and opening-up.” ...

But Rush Doshi, former National Security Council official, told the publication that Beijing would be reluctant to put Xi "at risk of a potentially embarrassing or unpredictable encounter ...

Investor and business enthusiasm for Hong Kong’s equity capital markets is roaring back, as a wave of Chinese firms rush to ...

Ahead of a scheduled call to discuss tariffs and trade, President Donald Trump said he likes China's Xi Jinping but finds the Chinese leader very tough and difficult to make a deal with.

The primary reason most people will pick up a biography of veteran Chinese revolutionary Xi Zhongxun is that his eighth child, Xi Jinping, is the most powerful man in China today. That’s too bad ...

“I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!,” Trump wrote early Wednesday in a post on Truth Social.

President Trump held a much-anticipated phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, “focused almost entirely on trade” — with the leaders agreeing to have their reps ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his view on having to negotiate with Chinese President Xi Jinping, describing him as “extremely hard to make a deal with”. Taking to his Truth Social ...