Tag: China

A beam of sunlight is cast on vehicles on a city ring-road clogged with heavy traffic during the morning rush hour in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

China to temporarily suspend auto tariffs starting next year

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2018 9:54 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters.

Mike Pompeo: China’s ‘unlawful detention of two Canadian citizens is unacceptable’

Joel Gehrke · December 14, 2018 8:10 pm

In this May 8, 2018, file photo, Chinese men pass by a ZTE building in Beijing, China.

Trump claims China looking to make ‘big and very comprehensive deal’ with the US

Diana Stancy Correll · December 14, 2018 5:06 pm

In this May 13, 2018, file photo, provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's aircraft carrier leaves Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province for sea trials.

Beltway Confidential

How to fix America’s broken aircraft carrier strategy

Tom Rogan · December 14, 2018 4:57 pm

President Donald Trump, center, reaches out to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they prepare to sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replacing the NAFTA trade deal, during a ceremony before the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

With threats from China, America’s allies are more important than ever

Erin Dunne · December 13, 2018 10:25 pm

In this image made from video taken on March 2, 2017, Michael Spavor, director of Paektu Cultural Exchange, talks during a Skype interview in Yangi, China. A second Canadian man is feared detained in China in what appears to be retaliation for Canada's arrest of a top executive of telecommunications giant Huawei. The possible arrest raises the stakes in an international dispute that threatens relations. Canada's Global Affairs department on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, said Spavor, an entrepreneur who is one of the only Westerners to have met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, had gone missing in China. Spavor's disappearance follows China's detention of a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing earlier this week.

Beltway Confidential

Increase pressure on China following its detention of two Canadians

Tom Rogan · December 13, 2018 7:36 pm

National security adviser John Bolton speaks during the daily press briefing.

John Bolton: US aid programs will counter China’s ‘imperial’ play in Africa

Joel Gehrke · December 13, 2018 6:44 pm

In this April 26, 2018, photo, a robot entertains visitors at the booth of a Chinese automaker during the China Auto 2018 show in Beijing, China. Under President Xi Jinping, a program known as "Made in China 2025" aims to make China a tech superpower by advancing development of industries that in addition to semiconductors includes artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals and electric vehicles.

China to revamp industrial policy

Sean Higgins · December 13, 2018 2:03 pm

Beltway Confidential

China’s Marriott hack attack exemplifies a subtle new threat

Erin Dunne · December 13, 2018 4:46 am

In this Nov. 7, 2012, file photo, U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during a U.S. presidential election event organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

FBI: China threatens ‘the future of the world’

Joel Gehrke · December 12, 2018 10:55 pm

In this photo taken Nov. 13, 2018, bicycle mechanic Boo Scott, left, explains a bike component to assembler Alan Everitt in the bike repair department in REI Co-op's flagship store in Seattle. For the fourth consecutive year, REI said that on the popular Black Friday shopping day it will close all 153 stores, process no online payments and pay more than 12,000 employees, encouraging them to recreate outdoors with friends and family. The company calls it #OptOutside.

Want to help US businesses suffering from tariffs? Cut the de minimis threshold

Pat Cunnane · December 12, 2018 2:33 pm

A Chinese construction worker stands on the land that was reclaimed from the Indian Ocean for the Colombo Port City project, on the Galle Face sea promenade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. The Port City project was initiated as part of China's ambitious One Belt One Road initiative which envisages linking China's economic centers with energy-rich Persian Gulf along the ancient silk road. China invests US $ 1.4 billion in the project which involves the reclamation of land off the coast of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo for a 269 hectare (664 acre) artificial city that will include an international financial district, living and entertainment areas.

US anti-propaganda team fights China’s predatory lending

Joel Gehrke · December 12, 2018 12:36 pm