Tag: China

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing on the rural economy.

USDA vows to protect agriculture industry from China tariffs

Sean Higgins · April 11, 2018 5:16 pm

Pedestrians, one wearing a mask, walk by a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street in Beijing.

China’s trade war weapon is made in America: $1.2 trillion in federal debt

Joseph Lawler · April 11, 2018 4:01 am

FILE - In this March 23, 2018. file photo, a woman pushes a shopping cart past a display of nuts imported from the United States at a supermarket in Beijing. China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of U.S. pork, fruit and other products Monday, April 2, 2018 in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce.

Strike a deal on NAFTA and save farmers from this trade war

Casey Guernsey · April 11, 2018 4:00 am

In this 2014 file photo, a central Illinois farmer uses a John Deere combine to harvest his soybean field in Loami, Ill.

Agriculture industry terrified at prospect of China tariffs

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2018 10:21 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House.

White House wants ‘more than just words’ from China on trade

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2018 7:54 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.

Trump: Chinese President Xi Jinping showing ‘enlightenment’ on US trade demands

Anna Giaritelli · April 10, 2018 6:10 pm

In this Tuesday, March 20, 2018 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to elected deputies after the closing session of the annual National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party's move to exert direct control over state broadcasters and regulators of everything from movies and TV to books and radio programs shows the party's drive to use the media for ideological efforts at home and to improve its image overseas, analysts say. The move is part of a push by Xi to tighten party supervision over much of Chinese public life as he renews his uncontested rule free of constitutional limits on his terms in office.

Beijing blinks? Xi promises lower auto tariffs, respect for intellectual property rights

Pete Kasperowicz · April 10, 2018 11:55 am

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his opening speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Boao in south China's Hainan province, Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Xi promised to cut auto import taxes, open China's markets further and improve conditions for foreign companies in a speech Tuesday that called for international cooperation against a backdrop of a spiraling dispute with Washington over trade and technology.

China files WTO complaint against Trump’s steel, aluminum tariffs

Katelyn Caralle · April 10, 2018 11:24 am

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Beltway Confidential

How and why Trump and Macron will strike Assad

Tom Rogan · April 9, 2018 8:45 pm

A worker checks on rolls of aluminium at a factory in Zouping county in east China's Shandong province, Saturday, April 7, 2018. Unwilling to yield, U.S. President Donald Trump and China's government escalated their trade clash Friday, with Beijing vowing to "counterattack with great strength" if Trump follows through on threats to impose tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods.

Almost two-thirds of Americans support tariffs on China: Poll

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2018 5:26 pm

Containers are loaded onto a cargo ship in east China's Shandong province. A U.S. trade dispute with China and other protectionist policies risk damaging America's economic growth, the International Monetary Fund warned.

Beltway Confidential

Death by China or life by trade

Bruce Yandle · April 9, 2018 3:21 pm

In this 2017 file photo, an airstrip, structures and buildings on China's man-made Subi Reef in the Spratly chain of islands in the South China Sea are seen from a Philippine Air Force C-130 transport plane of the Philippine Air Force.

China installed communication, radar jamming equipment on man-made islands: Report

Katelyn Caralle · April 9, 2018 2:19 pm