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By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bahrain’s crown prince announced on Wednesday plans to invest more than $17 billion in the United States at a meeting with President Donald Trump focused on trade, Iran and regional security issues. Under the plan, Bahrain signed a deal that a White House official said was valued at about $7 billion for its national carrier, Gulf Air, to buy 12 Boeing (NYSE:BA) aircraft with an option for six more and 40 General Electric (NYSE:GE) engines. Bahrain’s communications office released a statement on Thursday saying that under the agreement, Gulf Air will acquire 18 new B787 aircraft from Boeing. It said a memorandum of understanding was established to supply Gulf Air with 36 GE engines. "We’re very happy to be announcing $17 billion worth of deals that are coming to the United States," said Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. "And this is real. These aren’t fake deals." The announcement from Prince Salman came during an Oval Office visit on the heels of foreign investment deals Trump made during a trip to the Middle East in May. During a visit to Riyadh, Trump secured a $600-billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to invest in the United States and agreed to sell the Saudis an arms package worth nearly $142 billion. Sunni-ruled Bahrain is an important security partner of the United States, hosting the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. It established ties with Israel in 2020 under the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, driven in part by shared concerns over Shiite-majority Iran. Bahrain’s exports face a 10% baseline tariff under Trump’s trade policies but have been spared larger levies imposed on other countries’ exports. Trump said the two men would privately discuss Iran, which is under pressure to resume nuclear talks with the U.S. as Washington and three major European countries have agreed to set the end of August as the deadline for a deal. Israel and the U.S. launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities last month, saying that they were part of a program geared towards developing nuclear weapons. Tehran maintains that its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes. The U.S. official said the new Bahrain deal will support 30,000 American jobs and was secured with help from Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Bahrain is expected to sign deals with Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), with plans to replace Chinese servers with Cisco products, the official said. Bahrain also seeks to increase its investments in U.S. energy, tech, and manufacturing sectors. The official said the crown prince intends to deploy capital to increase U.S. domestic aluminum production, invest in U.S. LNG production to secure energy supplies and purchase cutting-edge AI chips, partnering with U.S. hyperscalers. During the visit, the crown prince signed various deals and memoranda of understanding confirming those arrangements. Later this year, the king of Bahrain will visit Washington to finalize these agreements and solidify the progress made in building the two nations’ economic prosperity, the U.S. official said.

#Satire #UkraineCrisis #TariffTantrum #TrumpTalks #DiplomacyDrama By: TheJestPress.com In a bold display of both foreign policy and time management skills, former President Donald Trump announced that the United States would slap tariffs on Russia if a Ukraine peace deal isn’t reached within precisely 50 days. “We calculated 50 using the best, bigly numerology,” Trump explained, standing next to a large, mysterious hourglass and what commentators are calling “a deeply confused bald eagle.”

Speaking in Qatar, the US President said that Iran has "sort of" agreed to the terms of a deal.

Speaking in Qatar, the US President said that Iran has "sort of" agreed to the terms of a deal.

If there's one thing that we've learnt from Trump over the years, it is that he loves to talk up a big game no matter the situation. Facts or not, that is a separate discussion. And when it comes to boasting about something or anything, it's the same as well. As the US and Japan conclude the first round of trade negotiations, Trump said that they made "big progress" in the talks this week. For what it's worth, he also said that he is "very confident" about a deal with the EU and also that they would "make a very good deal" with China. Call me a skeptic but yeah, it's not the first time we see Trump talk up something when the reality begs to differ. In the case of the tariff talks with Japan, Akazawa was less upbeat about the situation as seen here. There were no major details revealed but the only thing that seems to be agreed upon was that they are going to schedule more discussions in the weeks ahead. Is that really "big progress"? We've seen this sort of episode before. If you recall back to 2019 when the US and China were discussing the Phase One trade deal, we basically got this wild contrast in communication between Trump and China: Seems familiar? Back then, Trump said that they struck "a very large deal" and that "Phase Two will begin immediately". Meanwhile, China said that they only "agreed on the text of the deal, which is still subject to legal review" and that "Phase Two will depend on the implementation on Phase One". Of course, we all know how that neither side stuck to the deal whatsoever in the end. But putting that aside, there is a precedent for Trump to make a play on words to give out an entirely different meaning to the actual situation. As such, keep that in mind when reading into the remarks - not just for Japan, but the entire tariffs saga this time around. Now, I don't doubt that there will be a trade deal between the US and Japan. Again, this is supposed to be one of the easiest battles for Trump to claim victory in this tariffs war. However, the details are going to be the key thing. Japan was slapped with 24% reciprocal tariffs initially before the pause. Now, they're facing the 10% blanket tariffs alongside the 25% auto tariffs separately. The question then becomes which tariffs will go away after both sides strike an accord? If there is a compromise on other things instead and the 10% tariffs stay the course, that is going to be a tough example for everyone else. While it might seem good that they didn't get hit with tariffs of 24% and "only" got 10%, it's a case of Trump basically hoodwinking the world into believing that is a good thing. This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.

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