Minutes before US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would double his tariffs on steel imported from Canada, the senior Democrat on a Congressional subcommittee blasted punitive duties that were already set to take effect as a threat […]
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The US State Department’s top official on the Indo-Pacific said Thursday that technology trade restrictions and military deterrence aimed at China should be the most likely area of policy continuity with the incoming administration of president-elect Donald Trump. Briefing reporters
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US Representative John Moolenaar on Thursday introduced a bill that would revoke the normal trade relations Washington has had with Beijing for more than two decades, joining China hawks in the Senate in a bid to decouple the countries’ economies.
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Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, one of the US president-elect’s closest campaign advisers, as his White House chief of staff. She is the first woman to hold the influential role. Since the 1970s, Wiles, 67, has worked on the
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has met with China’s deputy central bank governor Xuan Chengneng in Washington this week to discuss coordination on financial market monitoring and money laundering. The talks this week marked a continuation of the sixth meeting
Just a week before Election Day in the United States, the candidate wishing for the kind of generals Hitler had has, according to some polls, at least a 50 per cent chance of retaking the White House. If it wasn’t
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US President Joe Biden’s restrictions on hi-tech trade with China came to a head in meetings between the countries’ top commerce officials. In a call with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Wentao, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo defended these rules
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America’s 2024 general election has many quirks like divergent voting processes, the outsize influence of “swing states” and uncertainties about how congressional results will affect the next president’s ability to govern. In the first of a three-part series, the South
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The US Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut of half a percentage point on Wednesday, the first downward adjustment in four years and a move that follows a slow but steady decline in America’s inflation rate. The Federal Open
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Ever since the immediate aftermath of the January 6 insurrection in 2021, we’ve seen flashes of the US Republican Party’s traditional ideological moorings, only to be left wondering if they were just eye floaters. It started with expressions of outrage
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