Tag: China

Jim Mattis, U.S. secretary of defense, smiles while introducing U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, during an event at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. President Donald Trump's administration will call on Congress to allocate $8 billion over the next five years to establish the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the military, Pence said today.

Beltway Confidential

Space Force has a cool name but more bureaucracy isn’t going to keep America safe

Erin Dunne · August 10, 2018 3:18 pm

Chinaâs government has renewed its threat to scrap deals with Washington aimed at defusing a sprawling trade dispute as the White House prepares to release a list of Chinese goods targeted for tariff hikes.

China: Trade war with US means we’ll shop for groceries elsewhere

Pete Kasperowicz · August 10, 2018 1:29 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during an interview with the Associated Press on April 26, 2018, in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. lawmakers are pushing for tighter regulation or even closure of the more than 100 Chinese Confucius Institutes set up on campuses across America. But for university students, they offer a chance to learn about Chinese language and art.

Marco Rubio: America must confront ‘evil’ religious repression in China

Katelyn Caralle · August 10, 2018 11:41 am

Trump’s flip-flop on tariffs burns company that backed his trade war

Pete Kasperowicz · August 10, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Liz from Leeds and the economic, moral, and historical fallacy of communism

Tom Rogan · August 9, 2018 9:27 pm

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Beltway Confidential

Leading newspapers mum on the Dianne Feinstein China spy ring story

Becket Adams · August 9, 2018 7:30 pm

Beltway Confidential

China is rattled by vaccine scandals; here’s why that could be trouble for Beijing’s projects abroad

Erin Dunne · August 9, 2018 5:25 pm

President Trump displays the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package he had just signed.

Layoffs from Trump’s tariffs may overtake job gains from tax cuts

Joe Williams · August 9, 2018 4:02 pm

Vice President Mike Pence speaks.

National Security

Trump wants Space Force up and running by 2020

Jamie McIntyre · August 9, 2018 3:58 pm

As much applause as Trump may get, outdated ideas about self-sufficiency will never make America great again. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Defiant China draws spotlight away from Trump’s progress in trade talks

Joe Williams · August 9, 2018 2:16 pm

The Chinese state-owned oil giant Sinopec.

China realized oil tariffs would be like holding a gun to its own head

Josh Siegel · August 9, 2018 4:00 am

World Trade Organization chief Roberto Azevedo looks on while speaking at a conference.

WTO director complains to Chinese newspaper about how the US is hurting the global trading system

Pete Kasperowicz · August 8, 2018 5:50 pm