Tag: China

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in Washington.

Business warns steel tariffs could hurt USMCA passage

Sean Higgins · November 19, 2018 7:56 pm

China's President Xi Jinping inspects guards at Parliament House in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

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Tempers just flared at a summit between the US and China. Here’s why to expect even more of that

Erin Dunne · November 19, 2018 7:31 pm

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives to speak at the APEC CEO Summit at the Pacific Explorer cruise ship docked in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Saturday.

Pence defends tariffs on billions in Chinese goods

Katelyn Caralle · November 17, 2018 4:18 pm

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the APEC CEO Summit at the Pacific Explorer cruise ship docked in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Saturday.

Pence: US offers better economic partnership than China

Katelyn Caralle · November 17, 2018 3:48 pm

Four possible outcomes of America’s withdrawal from the Universal Postal Union

Nick Zaiac · November 17, 2018 5:00 am

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) arrive at an event in Darwin, Australia, on Friday.

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Australia, Japan, and America’s strengthening alliance against China

Tom Rogan · November 16, 2018 7:18 pm

President Trump speaks during a conference in D.C.

Trump says that China has submitted a list of trade demands, may make a deal

Sean Higgins · November 16, 2018 6:22 pm

Vice President Mike Pence delivers his opening statement at the start of the ASEAN Summit, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 in Singapore.

Pence warns China: No one owns the South China Sea

Katelyn Caralle · November 16, 2018 4:36 pm

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks during the Americas Economic Summit.

Commerce’s Ross says China tariff hike still set for January

Sean Higgins · November 15, 2018 11:15 pm

In this Aug. 31, 2018, photo, shot through a car window, a child and a woman wait outside a school entrance with multiple layers of barbed wire and barricades in Peyzawat, western China's Xinjiang region. Uighurs fear the Chinese government's expansion of compulsory Mandarin-intensive classes and boarding schools away from home will gradually erode their children's Central Asian ethnic identity and Islamic beliefs.

China will ‘firmly reject’ diplomatic request to visit Uighur camps

Joel Gehrke · November 15, 2018 8:39 pm

"I think the president said as he was leaving on this trip to the Asia-Pacific that he just thinks he'd like to see the DOJ just do their job and I believe that the American people understand that and respect that." (Dawn J. Sagert/The York Dispatch via AP)

Mike Pence’s push for Indo-Pacific freedom

Daniel Twining · November 15, 2018 4:19 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

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Credit Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez for challenging China’s Uighur injustice

Tom Rogan · November 14, 2018 9:40 pm