Trade War

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pomp…

The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with new restrictions on doing business with tech giants Huawei and ZTE, with chairman Ajit Pai setting a Nov. 19 date for vote on a proposal to bar U.S. firms that receive federal subsidies from purchas…

For years, Hong Kong has been one of the worlds most profitable banking markets. That status is now under threat.Banks profit per employee last year was higher in Hong Kong than in any other market tracked by Citigroup analystsroughly double the U.S. figure.B…

Navarro called the apparent leak "fake news" in response, but the Post maintained that multiple insiders had seen hard copies of the potential order. If an order like this did go ahead, it would raise numerous concerns about potential abuses of power. It's n…

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Last week Vanity Fair published an article claiming that mysterious traders made roughly $3.5 billion off stock bets timed to Trump's trade war comments. It essentially implied that certain traders were frontrunning…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of curtailing “rights and liberties” in Hong Kong in a wide-ranging critique of Beijing’s behavior but also insisted that the United States does not seek confrontation or to “de-couple…

Is Chinas intellectual property (IP) regime really all that bad? It has become generally accepted that the ongoing U.S.-China trade war is at least partially in response to Communist Chinas practice of forcing technology transfers and its extremely poor prote…

American hog farmers built up their herds this summer in anticipation of an export boom as African swine fever decimated Asian pig herds.However, the US-China trade war has weighed on demand for US exports, resulting in 40 million pounds of p…

Reuters American hog farmers built up their herds this summer in anticipation of an export boom as African swine fever decimated Asian pig herds.However, the US-China trade war has weighed on demand for US exports, resulting in 40 million po…