Tag: China

In this Oct. 2, 2014 photo, the statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall faces the facade of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. U.S. stocks opened higher Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, as investors assessed corporate news.

Trade wars and business debt make the list of bank regulator’s top fears

Colin Wilhelm · December 3, 2018 7:14 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, center, gestures while speaking after President Donald Trump, left, announced a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Also on stage is White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right. The new deal, reached just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Donald Trump had called a job-killing disaster.

Trade hardliner Robert Lighthizer to lead next China talks

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2018 4:38 pm

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping

Trump floats meeting with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin to halt ‘uncontrollable arms race’

Katelyn Caralle · December 3, 2018 1:56 pm

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in friendlier times. The two this week stepped up their trade war.

Wall Street surges after Trump’s temporary trade truce with China

Joe Williams · December 3, 2018 12:27 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., reacts while answering a question from the audience at an event.

Elizabeth Warren goes first on foreign policy and serves as a warning to the rest

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2018 5:00 am

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.

Business groups applaud ‘de-escalation’ in US-China trade tensions

Sean Higgins · December 2, 2018 7:10 pm

President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Singapore.

Trump expects next meeting with Kim Jong Un in January or February, has talked about three sites

Daniel Chaitin · December 2, 2018 6:44 am

A Curtiss P-40E Warhawk is pictured at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

Beltway Confidential

Before Pearl Harbor, these secret American heroes were already resisting Japan

Alexandra Hudson · December 2, 2018 5:00 am

China said Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures after the US imposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of its exports, raising the prospect of a full-blown trade war.

Trump and Xi agree to temporary trade war cease-fire at dinner summit

Sean Higgins · December 2, 2018 2:06 am

Former presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush are pictured.

George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama shared realist view of foreign policy

David Mark · December 1, 2018 5:36 pm

President Trump, front center, stands with other world leaders as they pose for a group picture at the start of the G20 Leader's Summit inside the Costa Salguero Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday.

At G-20, possible ‘breakthrough’ seen after all-night talks

Associated Press · December 1, 2018 4:01 pm

In this Oct. 9, 2018 photo, Zhou Xiaoqin, left, loads Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA molecules into a fine glass pipette as Qin Jinzhou watches at a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province.

China’s lax research ethics threaten America’s technological dominance

Greg Jones · December 1, 2018 5:00 am