Tag: China

JPMorgan rakes in profits from market’s trade-war tantrums

James Langford · April 13, 2018 11:08 am

DAY 4 - In this Jan. 23, 2017, file photo, Vice President Mike Pence, left, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, watch as President Donald Trump shows off an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact agreed to under the Obama administration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

America would win by rejoining the TPP

Tom Rogan · April 13, 2018 9:00 am

Challenging China

Gary Schmitt, Jamie Fly · April 13, 2018 5:10 am

Beltway Confidential

China can’t win a trade war with rare earth metals — they already tried

Tim Worstall · April 12, 2018 7:00 pm

Delta Air Lines says business travel to China is unfazed, so far, by the prospect of a trade war between that country and the U.S.

Worried Delta says China travel surging despite trade war fears

James Langford · April 12, 2018 4:39 pm

Pompeo sought to reassure Democrats that he would be a mainstream CIA director who would act within the law.

National Security

Trump’s pick for State Department: ‘Soft policy’ on Russia is ‘now over’

Diana Stancy Correll · April 12, 2018 3:26 am

"Next year is going to be the year where we work on people," House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters who asked about his welfare reform plan at his weekly news conference. "Next year is the year we work on getting people where they need to get in life, in better jobs, an actual career, closing the skills gap."

Beltway Confidential

Paul Ryan will be remembered for strengthening the US military

Tom Rogan · April 11, 2018 8:36 pm

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing on the rural economy.

USDA vows to protect agriculture industry from China tariffs

Sean Higgins · April 11, 2018 5:16 pm

Pedestrians, one wearing a mask, walk by a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street in Beijing.

China’s trade war weapon is made in America: $1.2 trillion in federal debt

Joseph Lawler · April 11, 2018 4:01 am

FILE - In this March 23, 2018. file photo, a woman pushes a shopping cart past a display of nuts imported from the United States at a supermarket in Beijing. China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of U.S. pork, fruit and other products Monday, April 2, 2018 in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce.

Strike a deal on NAFTA and save farmers from this trade war

Casey Guernsey · April 11, 2018 4:00 am

In this 2014 file photo, a central Illinois farmer uses a John Deere combine to harvest his soybean field in Loami, Ill.

Agriculture industry terrified at prospect of China tariffs

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2018 10:21 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House.

White House wants ‘more than just words’ from China on trade

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2018 7:54 pm