When not alienating America’s closest trading partners, threatening to take over Greenland, Gaza and the Panama Canal, slapping China with tariffs and decimating the US$40 billion foreign aid programme, US President Donald Trump has targeted the United Nations – handing […]
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US President Joe Biden has signed key legislation into law that extends for another five years the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, including its sanctions on key Chinese officials. On Monday, Biden signed the massive US$895
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The White House announced a trade investigation into “legacy” semiconductors made by China on Monday, less than a month before the new administration of president-elect Donald Trump takes power, that could impose additional tariffs on Chinese-made everyday US consumer goods
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US president-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he will impose new tariffs on goods from China using an executive order on the first day of his administration, which starts on January 20. In a series of posts on his
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Brazil wrapped up the annual G20 summit of major industrialised and developing economies in Brazil on Tuesday with a focus on sustainable development and the transition to renewable energy. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told the assembled delegates
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China’s President Xi Jinping told US President Joe Biden that he is “ready to work” with president-elect Donald Trump to improve the relationship and warned against attempts to decouple the world’s two largest economies. In what was likely their final
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Leaders from 21 Pacific economies gathering this week in Lima for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference arrive with questions on the future of multilateralism and the spectre of US president-elect Donald Trump looming over the event. This year’s meeting,
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America is heading into a general election that has been unprecedented in terms of rhetoric, surprises and the potential to alter the founding principles of US democracy. In this three-part series, the Post looks at the legacy of the departing
Trump 2.0: older, more aggressive and potentially a bigger China hawk Read More »
Both major US presidential candidates fundamentally agree on international trade objectives, former American trade officials said on Thursday, but look for more threats, posturing and volatile tariff barriers under a Donald Trump 2.0 administration, particularly against China. Since then, campaigning
The US State Department approved a US$228 million “return, repair and reshipment” package of spare parts and related equipment with Taiwan for F-16V fighter aircraft. The transaction was approved on Monday by the department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and notification
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