During a solidarity visit to the city of Sderot, touring areas damaged during the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks, the ambassador called for "the immediate and unconditional release of all the abductees, living and fallen, back to their homes."

The suspension comes just days after a tense White House meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy that ended without the expected signing of a minerals rights agreement.

The country's largest retailer has noted a significant increase in sales of Canadian-made products as consumers actively seek alternatives to American brands.

In China, where the state monitors your every move, artificial intelligence has existed for decades, even if no one called it by that name. It had ready-made infrastructure, which helped it catch up to the West easily despite being denied NVIDIA's latest chips.

AIT director noted the historic scale of cross-strait semiconductor investments, pointing out that "the largest investment project in US history is by a Taiwan semiconductor firm, while the largest foreign investor in Taiwan is a leading American semiconductor company."