China Flexed. Trump Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw.
Beijing’s trade curbs and President Trump’s tariff threats show how quickly calm can give way to confrontation between the two largest economies.
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Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on Chinese Goods
The president made the threat after Beijing imposed new global restrictions on the use of rare earth minerals, which are vital supplies for U.S. makers of chips and batteries.
A Tech Expo Shows What China Can Make, but Not Who’ll Buy It All
The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find.
The Missiles Threatening Taiwan
China’s rapidly growing missile force threatens Taiwan and the U.S. forces that protect the island.
China’s Small Steps Look Bigger Next to Trump’s Retreat
Beijing’s climate and trade pledges at the U.N. highlighted how modest moves can stand out when the United States is pulling back from global leadership.
Trump signs executive order to transfer TikTok to US owners
Agreement separates app from Chinese owner ByteDance and allows US investors to take 80% stakeDonald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday outlining the terms of a deal to transfer TikTok to a US owner.Trump said he and China’s president Xi Jinpi…
Unite to end wars and tackle climate crisis, Australian PM tells UN in veiled swipe at US isolationism
Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese also resurrects bid for temporary seat on UN security councilAnthony Albanese has pushed back on isolationism and issued a veiled criticism of Donald Trump’s rejection of climate science, warning the United N…
A Curator Flees Bangkok After China Deems His Art Show Too Provocative
A museum’s directors said Chinese and Thai officials pressured them to remove the names of artists whose works criticized China. The curator flew to London, fearing arrest.
Trump’s UN speech makes it clear: the world can no longer look to the US for strong leadership
US president’s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliancesSuch is the gravitational pull cast by Donald Trump and the US economy that the politics of the other 192 countries that make up the United Nati…
Riding the Tiger: Why Xi and Putin’s ‘Axis of Autocracies’ Could End the Way Churchill Predicted
“Dictators,” Churchill observed, “ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount.” “And,” he added, “the tigers are getting hungry.”EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION — Churchill penned those words when mankind was on the precipice of what wou…