Tag: China

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.

National Security

US planning ‘administration-wide’ measures against China

Naomi Lim · September 23, 2018 11:57 pm

Mike Kiernan takes photos of the damage to his home in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday.

Trump tariffs could drive up costs to rebuild after Florence

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · September 22, 2018 2:30 pm

Shoppers check out the iPhone X at an Apple store in Beijing, China.

Beltway Confidential

Keep iPhone production in China

Colin Grabow · September 22, 2018 4:00 am

Sen. Gary Peters will serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 115th Congress.

Michigan lawmaker blasts delays on self-driving car bill: US losing ground ‘every day’

Joe Williams · September 21, 2018 5:08 pm

President Trump gives a thumbs-up as he arrives to a campaign rally, Sept. 20, 2018, in Las Vegas.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s double whammy blow against Russia and China

Tom Rogan · September 21, 2018 4:29 pm

Beltway Confidential

The European Union’s absurd Peace Day arrogance

Tom Rogan · September 21, 2018 3:04 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, May 1, 2014, cranes unload imported iron ore from a ship at a port in Rizhao in east China's Shandong province. China's trade rebounded in April from the previous month's surprise contraction but imports were subdued in another sign of the country's economic slowdown. Customs data Thursday, May 8, 2014 showed exports rose 0.9 percent, recovering from March's 6.6 percent decline. Imports rose 0.8 percent, up from the previous month's 11.3 percent decline. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Trump’s tariffs will cut off some China trade, but businesses don’t know how much

Sean Higgins · September 21, 2018 5:00 am

Christening and Commissioning ceremony of the country's newly-acquired Hamilton class warship BRP Gregorio Del Pilar (PF15).

China warns the West: Ships near South China Sea islands ‘must be stopped’

Joel Gehrke · September 20, 2018 11:03 pm

A motorist fills up with gasoline containing ethanol in Des Moines on July 26, 2013.

Energy and Environment

EPA moves to heal rift with ethanol industry over waivers for the oil industry

John Siciliano · September 20, 2018 8:33 pm

In this May 21, 2014, photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, smile during signing ceremony in Shanghai, China. China signed a long-awaited, 30-year deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural gas worth some $400 billion in a financial and diplomatic boost to diplomatically isolated President Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration is playing down an increasingly warm relationship between its main global rivals, China and Russia, that it may have inadvertently encouraged.

US sanctions China over arms deals with Russia

Joel Gehrke · September 20, 2018 5:52 pm

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.

Beltway Confidential

Not just tariffs: The US needs a stable China relationship long-term

Erin Dunne · September 20, 2018 3:56 pm

"It is time to go from dead last to pretty much the front of the pack. We won't have the lowest rate, but we'll be pretty close," the president said. (AP)

Corporate America gets caught between vibrant economy and Trump’s trade war

Joe Williams · September 20, 2018 3:46 pm