2026-01-16
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America agreed to cap tariffs on Taiwanese imports at 15% in exchange for the island's chip makers,
including the world's largest, TSMC, investing $500 billion in their American operations.
The Trump administration agreed to cut levies from 20% to the level faced by South Korea and Japan.
America's Commerce Department said that the deal would lead to a,
quote, massive reshoring of the country's chip-making sector.
Maria Carina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader,
said her meeting with Donald Trump was, quote, great.
America's president has repeatedly undermined Ms Machado, who won a Nobel Prize last year.
Previously, he claimed that she lacked the respect to rule Venezuela.
Earlier, American Armed Forces boarded a tanker near Venezuela,
the sixth seizure since it began intercepting ships carrying sanctioned oil last month.
Mr Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act,
which allows the president to deploy troops to suppress armed rebellions to quell unrest in Minnesota.