Trade War

Someone is going to get a bollocking at the U.S. State Department, because they added Wakanda—the fictional high-tech African kingdom from the marvel Black Panther movie—to an official list of trade partners. The fictional country was removed soon from the l…

Image copyrightMarvel/DisneyImage caption Wakanda is a fictional East African country from Black Panther, which was adapted into a film last year The US Department of Agriculture listed Wakanda as a free trade partner - despite it being a fictional country…

AMERICAN TRADE deals typically stretch to thousands of pages. The new phase one trade deal between America and China takes up only 86. Wang Shouwen, the Chinese deputy representative of international trade negotiations, described a text with nine chapters, in…

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Trumps team also wanted to put the brakes on Chinas drive to establish itself as the worlds economic superpower. China is basically trying to steal the future, declared Peter Navarro, a top trade adviser, a year ago. But the new deal, while it includes some p…

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunchs China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at how WeWork’s largest rival in China — UCommune — is pulling a…

(BEIJING) — China expressed cautious optimism Saturday about a first-step trade agreement that dials down a trade war it blames the U.S. for starting. Chinese experts and news media joined government officials in saying the deal would reduce uncertainty for …

President Trump promised yesterday that peace is at hand in his trade war upon China. “We have agreed to a very large Phase One Deal with China,” he tweeted at 10:25 a.m. “They have agreed to many structural changes and massive purchases of Agricultural Produ…

China put a positive face Saturday on a first-step trade agreement that dials down a trade war it blames the US for starting. Chinese experts and news media joined government officials in saying the deal would reduce uncertainty for companies, at least in th…

Mary E. Lovely is a professor of economics at Syracuse University and non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. The US Trade Representative's announcement of a "Ph…