Tag: China

China's President Xi Jinping has pledged the world's top emitter will reach carbon-neutrality by 2060.

China detains two Voice of America journalists

Joel Gehrke · August 13, 2018 8:56 pm

President Trump listens during a meeting with state leaders about prison reform on Aug. 9, 2018, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.

CBO slightly lowers economic growth projections, sees higher uncertainty from Trump tariffs

Josh Siegel · August 13, 2018 8:31 pm

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis receives military honors before his meeting with Brazil's defense minister, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Mattis has spent six days visiting South American countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia.

Beltway Confidential

As Jim Mattis heads to Latin America, China isn’t waiting for the US to figure out what’s going on

Erin Dunne · August 13, 2018 8:07 pm

White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett gives an economic update.

White House: We may have to kick China out of the WTO

Pete Kasperowicz · August 13, 2018 1:02 pm

Dan Hannnan: Russian aggression keeps happening because it keeps working

Dan Hannan · August 13, 2018 4:01 am

This file photo shows a farmer holding Monsanto's Roundup Ready Soy Bean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo.

US ship carrying soybeans arrives at Chinese port after being stalled amid trade war

Josh Siegel · August 12, 2018 6:23 pm

President Trump speaks as he meets with state leaders about prison reform on Aug. 9, 2018, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.

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North Korea’s new anger is a sign Trump’s strategy working

Tom Rogan · August 10, 2018 3:20 pm

Jim Mattis, U.S. secretary of defense, smiles while introducing U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, during an event at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. President Donald Trump's administration will call on Congress to allocate $8 billion over the next five years to establish the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the military, Pence said today.

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Space Force has a cool name but more bureaucracy isn’t going to keep America safe

Erin Dunne · August 10, 2018 3:18 pm

Chinaâs government has renewed its threat to scrap deals with Washington aimed at defusing a sprawling trade dispute as the White House prepares to release a list of Chinese goods targeted for tariff hikes.

China: Trade war with US means we’ll shop for groceries elsewhere

Pete Kasperowicz · August 10, 2018 1:29 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during an interview with the Associated Press on April 26, 2018, in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. lawmakers are pushing for tighter regulation or even closure of the more than 100 Chinese Confucius Institutes set up on campuses across America. But for university students, they offer a chance to learn about Chinese language and art.

Marco Rubio: America must confront ‘evil’ religious repression in China

Katelyn Caralle · August 10, 2018 11:41 am

Trump’s flip-flop on tariffs burns company that backed his trade war

Pete Kasperowicz · August 10, 2018 4:00 am

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Liz from Leeds and the economic, moral, and historical fallacy of communism

Tom Rogan · August 9, 2018 9:27 pm