Trade War

A senior Chinese official on Thursday accused the United States of engaging in "naked economic terrorism" and said China is "not afraid" of a trade war as tensions with the Trump administration continue to escalate. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Hanh…

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese state TV anchor and a host from Fox Business, whose sparring over the U.S.-China trade war has been avidly followed on Chinese social media, brought their duel to the American cable network for what turned out to be a respectful …

LONDON (Reuters) - Global stocks will continue their march to higher ground but an escalation of the U.S.-China trade war poses the biggest risk, Reuters polls of over 200 equity strategists, analysts and fund managers from around the world found. Last year…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s Communist Party newspaper warned the United States on Wednesday that the country was ready to use rare earths to strike back in their bitter trade war, saying in an extremely strongly worded commentary “don’t say we didn’t warn you…

The US trade war on China will provoke Chinese citizens into turning away from Apple and buying domestic mobile brands instead, according to an analyst note from Citi on Monday. The analysts predicted that Apple's brand is already being damaged in China, a…

Massive news just dropped for Hong Kong’s capital markets. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest tech companies, is considering raising $20 billion through a second listing in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing sources. Unnamed people told Bloomber…

Trump pledges $16B to farmers hurt by trade war

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s $16 billion aid program will help boost American farmers hit by the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, including market access programs, the U.S. agriculture secretary said in a television interview on Thursday.…

China has already run a small-scale test of the "nuclear option" in its trade war with the US. The Asian nation sold $20 billion worth of US Treasurys in March, possibly foreshadowing a total offloading of American government bonds that would plunge global ma…