In an official announcement, China said that it will no longer offer oil supply or buy textile from the politically isolated nation, North Korea. China is known to be the biggest trading partner of North Korea and also the sole source of hard currency. The ban laid on the textile buying will hit Pyongyang’s income significantly while the China’s oil …

FILE – In this Friday, April 21, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington, where he signed an executive order to review tax regulations set last year by his predecessor, as well as two memos to potentially reconsider major elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms passed in the wake of the Great Recession. …

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday strongly raised with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi the issue of China blocking its bid to have JeM chief and Pathankot terror attack mastermind Masood Azhar designated as a terrorist by the UN. According to official sources, Swaraj raised the issue besides other issues also. The conflict is mainly regarding the matter that …