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05.31.19
What Exactly Is the Story with China’s Rare Earths?
from ChinaFile
Deng Xiaoping reportedly said that while the Middle East has oil, China has rare earths. On May 29, Communist Party newspaper the People’s Daily warned of the United States’ “uncomfortable” dependence on Chinese rare earths: “Will rare earths become...
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10.09.18
The U.S. and China as Peer Competitors in the Indo-Pacific
from Carnegie China
The Trump administration has taken a more confrontational approach to bilateral relations with China, implementing tariffs on nearly half of all Chinese exports to the U.S. and treating Beijing as a strategic competitor across many aspects of the...
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08.07.18China’s Gas Tariffs Are a Permian-Size Problem for Oil
Bloomberg
The latest bit of America’s energy sector to feel the over-the-shoulder lash is the liquefied natural gas-export business. On Friday, LNG joined the list of goods that China will hit with tariffs in retaliation for U.S. ones. This...
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08.02.18China’s Currency Slide Risks a Horrible Misunderstanding with Trump
Telegraph
China’s currency slide is graduating from benign neglect to something more deliberate. Whether or not you deem it currency warfare, it is playing with political and financial fire.
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08.02.18China Says U.S. Trade Pressure Won’t Work
Wall Street Journal
China fired back after the Trump administration threatened to double proposed tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, saying it won’t yield to White House pressure.
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08.01.18As Trump’s Tariffs Start to Bite, China Pledges It’ll Keep Its Economy Stable
CNBC
In a statement carried by China’s state media after a meeting of the Politburo, a top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party, Beijing said it will take targeted measures to solve issues in the economy. The Chinese economy is facing “some...
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08.01.18Trump’s Tariffs Push Electronics From China to Southeast Asia
Bloomberg
A number of Taiwanese firms that form a crucial plank of the global supply chain have in recent days signaled their intention to diversify away from the world’s No. 2 economy. Delta Electronics Inc., which supplies power components to Apple Inc.,...
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07.12.18US-China Trade Brawl Threatens America’s Booming Oil Exports
CNN
China is America’s second-biggest crude oil customer, and Beijing has threatened to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s trade crackdown by imposing tariffs on US crude oil.
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07.12.18China Is Better Able To Withstand A Trade War Than In The Past
NPR
As President Trump threatens to heap more tariffs on Chinese imports, he’s got one important fact on his side: The United States remains China’s biggest single export market, buying some $500 billion in goods last year alone.
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06.19.18Trump Threatens Tariffs On $200 Billion Of Chinese Goods
NPR
In the latest move in an escalating trade dispute, President Trump announced Monday evening that he was asking U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to suggest $200 billion worth of Chinese goods on which the U.S. could impose a 10 percent...
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06.13.18Trump Could Slap China with Tariffs as Soon as Friday
Politico
President Donald Trump is expected to impose tariffs on Chinese goods as soon as Friday or next week, according to two sources briefed on internal deliberations, a move that is sure to further inflame tensions and spark almost immediate retaliation...
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05.29.18Trump Announces Tariffs on China, Tech Crackdown Ahead of Key Trade Meeting
Washington Post
Trump slaps $50B tariffs as Commerce Secretary is due to arrive in Beijing on Saturday for talks.
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05.22.18China Cuts Car Tariffs, in a Small Offering to U.S. on Trade
New York Times
The small change is unlikely to motivate automakers to shift production.
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04.10.18U.S. Stocks Surge after China’s Xi Eases Trade Fears
Wall Street Journal
U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday, with the Dow gaining more than 400 points, as remarks from Chinese President Xi Jinping soothed concerns about a trade war that have roiled markets in recent weeks.
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04.10.18Xi Says China to Lower Trade Barriers as Beijing Files Wto Complaint against U.S.
NPR
China’s President Xi Jinping says his country will “significantly lower” import tariffs on automobiles as part of a broader move to open up its economy amid a major trade dispute with the U.S.
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04.04.18China Strikes Back at the U.S. With Plans for Its Own Tariffs
New York Times
China hit back at the United States on Wednesday with proposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of American soybeans, cars, chemicals and other goods, in a move likely to stoke fears that the countries’ escalating confrontation could become an all-out...
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04.04.18China Strikes Back at the U.S. With Plans for Its Own Tariffs
New York Times
China hit back at the United States on Wednesday with proposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of American soybeans, cars, chemicals and other goods, in a move likely to stoke fears that the countries’ escalating confrontation could become an all-out...
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04.02.18China Announces It’s Imposing New Tariffs on 128 Us Products
CNBC
China implements additional tariffs as retaliation against increased U.S. import taxes.
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03.26.18The US and China Are in Talks to Try to Avoid a Trade War
CNN
The United States and China are acting tough over trade, but they’re also busy talking to try to stop the situation spiraling out of control.
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03.20.18China Vows to Open Its Markets Further in Response to Trump’s Tariff Threats
Washington Post
China responded to the threat of a massive package of tariffs from the United States by vowing Tuesday to further open its own markets to foreign trade and investment, while warning that a trade war between the two nations would hurt both sides.
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03.14.18Trump Demands Aides Pump up Anti-China Tariffs
Politico
President Donald Trump is getting ready to crack down on China. Trump told Cabinet secretaries and top advisers during a meeting at the White House last week that he wanted to soon hit China with steep tariffs and investment restrictions in response...
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03.12.18Trump’s China Whisperer: How Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman Has Sought to Keep the President Close to Beijing
Washington Post
This American investor has one of the closest relationships to Beijing.
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03.12.18China Says Trade War with U.S. Will Only Bring Disaster to Global Economy
Reuters
Beijing criticizes proposed tariffs by Washington amid fears it could shatter global growth.
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03.09.18China, Europe Slam Trump’s Tariffs as U.S. Metalworkers Cheer
Wall Street Journal
China and Europe lashed out against new U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, while officials and executives from several American allies caught in the crossfire reacted more cautiously, embracing what the White House promised would be some flexibility...
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03.07.18The West Is Doing Its Best to Help China
Financial Times
Most of it is unintentional. Yet the west could not be helping China more if it tried.
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03.02.18
How Will Trump’s Tariffs Affect U.S.-China Relations?
Arguing that America is harmed by other countries’ trade practices, President Donald Trump said on March 1 that the U.S. will impose a new 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum. “People have no idea how badly...
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02.27.18China’s New Economic Guru Is Trying to Stop a Trade War
CNN
As trade tensions escalate between the US and China, one of President Xi Jinping’s most trusted advisers is paying a visit to Washington.
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02.05.18China Opens Inquiry into U.S. Sorghum as Trade Tensions Worsen
New York Times
China has opened an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into U.S. sorghum imports, the latest salvo in an escalating trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.
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01.30.18U.S. Firms in China Fear Fallout from Tit-For-Tat Trade War
South China Morning Post
American business group says Beijing could target sectors to send a political message across the Pacific.
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01.23.18China Has Plenty of Options to Retaliate against U.S. Tariffs
Bloomberg
U.S. President Donald Trump may soon get a lesson about tangling with China on trade: Beijing can punch back.
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01.23.18Did Trump Just Start a Trade War with China?
CNN
President Trump's decision Monday to slap tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines risks inflaming tensions with China and other big U.S. trade partners.
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12.27.17Trump Readies Tougher ‘America First’ Line for China Trade in 2018
Washington Post
The Trump administration is setting the stage to unveil tough new trade penalties against China early next year, moving closer to an oft-promised crackdown that some U.S. business executives fear will ignite a costly battle.
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11.08.17Shaky U.S.-China Trade Relationship Will Top Trump's Agenda in Beijing
NPR
Soft lounge music pipes through the speakers as elegantly dressed shoppers peruse organic produce and meats at City'super, one of Shanghai's most upscale markets, a cross between Whole Foods and Louis Vuitton. But one look at the price of...
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08.28.17Trump on China: ‘I Want Tariffs. And I Want Someone to Bring Me Some Tariffs’
MarketWatch
President Donald Trump demanded tariffs against China at a recent White House meeting, according to a new report, dismissing concerns from his “globalist” advisers.
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07.20.17
Should the U.S. Play Hardball with China on Trade?
Last week, United States President Donald Trump suggested that he is considering leveraging tariffs on Chinese steel imports. Trump’s aggressive posture has left diplomatic experts uneasy amid an already divided U.S. diplomatic house in Beijing, and...
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07.19.17China and the U.S. Are Both Going for Trade’s Nuclear Option
Washington Post
As the Trump administration and their Chinese counterparts meet this week to hammer out agreements on trade, they are likely to use the same rationale—national security—to argue for very different goals.
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04.03.17If U.S. Trade with China Is So Unfair, Why Is GM the Best-Selling Car There?
Quartz
Ahead of a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Donald Trump’s White House has made clear that it isn’t happy with China’s high tariffs on imported American automobiles.
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02.04.17Mexico Blowback Should Dissuade Trump from Taking on China
Bloomberg
Even though Trump chose the U.S.’s southern neighbor as his first target in the tariff war, China casts a much longer shadow over the U.S. economy.
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01.19.17China Is America’s “Vendor,” and Needs to Treat Its Biggest Customer Better, Trump’s Commerce Pick Says
Quartz
China loomed large in the US senate’s confirmation hearing today of Wilbur Ross for commerce secretary.
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01.04.17Obama Got Tough on China. It Cost U.S. Jobs and Raised Prices
CNN
Protect American jobs by getting tough on China. That's the underlying idea behind President-elect Donald Trump's threat of a 45% tariff against China as a ploy to bring jobs back to America. Before pursuing that strategy, however, Trump...
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03.25.16How Trump’s Hard Line on Trade Could Backfire
Wall Street Journal
“If they don’t behave,” the Republican businessman warned at a debate, Chinese companies under a Trump presidency could face tariffs of 45%.
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07.05.12U.S. Files Trade Complaint Against China on Cars
New York Times
The United States filed a trade complaint against China on Thursday for new duties it imposed on American-made cars and trucks. The move came as President Obama kicked off a campaign bus tour through the manufacturing heartland of Pennsylvania and...