Tag: China

Beltway Confidential

The European Union’s absurd Peace Day arrogance

Tom Rogan · September 21, 2018 3:04 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, May 1, 2014, cranes unload imported iron ore from a ship at a port in Rizhao in east China's Shandong province. China's trade rebounded in April from the previous month's surprise contraction but imports were subdued in another sign of the country's economic slowdown. Customs data Thursday, May 8, 2014 showed exports rose 0.9 percent, recovering from March's 6.6 percent decline. Imports rose 0.8 percent, up from the previous month's 11.3 percent decline. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Trump’s tariffs will cut off some China trade, but businesses don’t know how much

Sean Higgins · September 21, 2018 5:00 am

Christening and Commissioning ceremony of the country's newly-acquired Hamilton class warship BRP Gregorio Del Pilar (PF15).

China warns the West: Ships near South China Sea islands ‘must be stopped’

Joel Gehrke · September 20, 2018 11:03 pm

A motorist fills up with gasoline containing ethanol in Des Moines on July 26, 2013.

Energy and Environment

EPA moves to heal rift with ethanol industry over waivers for the oil industry

John Siciliano · September 20, 2018 8:33 pm

In this May 21, 2014, photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, smile during signing ceremony in Shanghai, China. China signed a long-awaited, 30-year deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural gas worth some $400 billion in a financial and diplomatic boost to diplomatically isolated President Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration is playing down an increasingly warm relationship between its main global rivals, China and Russia, that it may have inadvertently encouraged.

US sanctions China over arms deals with Russia

Joel Gehrke · September 20, 2018 5:52 pm

China has accused the United States of using pressure tactics and blackmail in threatening to impose tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports.

Beltway Confidential

Not just tariffs: The US needs a stable China relationship long-term

Erin Dunne · September 20, 2018 3:56 pm

"It is time to go from dead last to pretty much the front of the pack. We won't have the lowest rate, but we'll be pretty close," the president said. (AP)

Corporate America gets caught between vibrant economy and Trump’s trade war

Joe Williams · September 20, 2018 3:46 pm

As technologies improve, the reserves can increase, although it may not be profitable for companies to drill everywhere that it is possible to do so. (Alan Warren/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP)

China tariffs will wound US natural gas industry, but not mortally

Josh Siegel · September 20, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Trump nominates California lawmaker to lead the US Trade and Development Agency

Diana Stancy Correll · September 19, 2018 11:05 pm

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with staff members at the control room of China Central Television in Beijing. A November report by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission found that Xinhua "serves some functions of an intelligence agency by gathering information and producing classified reports for the Chinese leadership."

China scolds US over spotlight on government-backed media

Joel Gehrke · September 19, 2018 10:14 pm

"I would say that we shouldn't take too much comfort, because even in failure, this program continues to advance," Royce said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Ed Royce: Keep sanctions and maximum pressure on North Korea

Joel Gehrke · September 19, 2018 6:19 pm

President Trump speaks during meeting in the Oval Office of the White House.

Beltway Confidential

Trump is blaming China for the trade war’s consequences, but he must fix the problem he created

Erin Dunne · September 18, 2018 6:12 pm