Tag: China

Beltway Confidential

Trump really needs someone to explain currency exchange rates to him

Tim Worstall · April 17, 2018 11:16 am

"I don't blame China," Trump said. "After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens? I give China great credit."

‘Game of Loans’: How China uses ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ to extend its military reach

Jamie McIntyre · April 17, 2018 4:00 am

Sow tariffs, harvest pain

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2018 4:11 am

Rep. Ron Estes: Why some Democrats are rooting for the Chinese on trade

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2018 4:00 am

Citigroup revenue climbed 3 percent to $18.9 billion in the first three months of 2018.

Citigroup posts 38% stock-trading growth amid global market gyrations

James Langford · April 13, 2018 12:49 pm

JPMorgan rakes in profits from market’s trade-war tantrums

James Langford · April 13, 2018 11:08 am

DAY 4 - In this Jan. 23, 2017, file photo, Vice President Mike Pence, left, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, watch as President Donald Trump shows off an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact agreed to under the Obama administration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

America would win by rejoining the TPP

Tom Rogan · April 13, 2018 9:00 am

Challenging China

Gary Schmitt, Jamie Fly · April 13, 2018 5:10 am

Beltway Confidential

China can’t win a trade war with rare earth metals — they already tried

Tim Worstall · April 12, 2018 7:00 pm

Delta Air Lines says business travel to China is unfazed, so far, by the prospect of a trade war between that country and the U.S.

Worried Delta says China travel surging despite trade war fears

James Langford · April 12, 2018 4:39 pm

Pompeo sought to reassure Democrats that he would be a mainstream CIA director who would act within the law.

National Security

Trump’s pick for State Department: ‘Soft policy’ on Russia is ‘now over’

Diana Stancy Correll · April 12, 2018 3:26 am

"Next year is going to be the year where we work on people," House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters who asked about his welfare reform plan at his weekly news conference. "Next year is the year we work on getting people where they need to get in life, in better jobs, an actual career, closing the skills gap."

Beltway Confidential

Paul Ryan will be remembered for strengthening the US military

Tom Rogan · April 11, 2018 8:36 pm