Tag: China

China's President Xi Jinping, center, meets German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

A real Borg collective, Xi Jinping’s China is America’s defining challenge in 2019

Tom Rogan · December 31, 2018 8:00 pm

Specialist Matthew Greiner works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. U.S. stocks wavered between small gains and losses Friday, struggling to maintain the momentum from a two-day winning streak following a week of volatile trading.

Wall Street ends worst year since 2008 financial crisis

James Langford · December 31, 2018 5:17 pm

This Aug. 29, 2017, file photo by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Beltway Confidential

The 5 greatest threats to national security in 2019

Tom Rogan · December 31, 2018 4:33 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.

Trump says US nearing ‘comprehensive’ China deal after phone call with Xi

Daniel Chaitin · December 29, 2018 6:01 pm

A worker walks past paper rolls at a newsprint plant.

Paper manufacturers win by snagging exclusions to China tariffs

Sean Higgins · December 28, 2018 10:21 pm

Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Brazil could help US stem the Chinese tide in South America

Joel Gehrke · December 28, 2018 8:13 pm

In this Aug. 7, 2013, file photo, farmer Ben Burgess carries a type of low-yield rice from a rice field near Coy, Ark. The Food and Drug Administration says consumers shouldn't worry too much about levels of arsenic in rice â but should vary their diets just in case. The agency released a study Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, of arsenic in 1,300 samples of rice and rice products, the largest study to date looking at the carcinogen's presence in that grain. Consumer groups have pressured the FDA to set a standard for the amount of arsenic that can be present in rice products.

China allows first-ever US rice imports

Sean Higgins · December 28, 2018 2:07 pm

Mikhail Gorbachev flashes the decree relinquishing control of nuclear weapons to Russian President Boris Yeltsin after its signature at the Kremlin in Moscow on Wednesday, December 25, 1991. Gorbachev whose reforms gave Soviet citizens freedom but ultimately led to the destruction of his nation, resigned Wednesday as president of the defunct Soviet Union. Yeltsin now controls the arsenal of some 27,000 nuclear weapons.

Beltway Confidential

On the anniversary of its collapse, lessons from the USSR for the US on China

Erin Dunne · December 27, 2018 3:56 pm

A woman arranges a box of frozen fish for sale at a fresh food market in China.

Beltway Confidential

Why China’s fishing habits are a much bigger problem than Japan’s

Tom Rogan · December 27, 2018 2:44 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during a conference to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's Reform and Opening Up policy at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

What Beijing’s latest move on trade law means for a deal with Trump

Erin Dunne · December 27, 2018 1:18 pm

Children wave U.S. and Chinese flags as President Trump arrives at Beijing Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, in Beijing, China. Trump is on a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s trade war comes at the expense of real sanctions on China

Erin Dunne · December 24, 2018 3:07 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018.

In Africa, the US needs to counteract China and Russia — without becoming them

Washington Examiner · December 24, 2018 5:00 am