Donald Trump defended the agreement reached by US and Mexican negotiators to head off the 5% tax on all Mexican goods that Trump had threatened to impose. read more

Trump made the announcement by tweet after telling reporters earlier Thursday that he was planning “a major statement” that would be his “biggest” so far on the border. read more

Luo is on his way back after a nearly three-year stint as the Chinese envoy to India and is expected to be promoted as a vice foreign minister. His lengthy article in Chinese for The Paper possibly indicates Sino-India bilateral ties are likely to remain... read more

The world’s two largest economies are locked in a trade war since Trump imposed heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminium items from China in March last year. In response, China imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on billions of dollars worth of American... read more

then cranked up the heat further, ordering a tariff hike on almost all remaining imports -- $300 billion worth, according to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer -- from the world’s second-biggest economy. read more

Chinese officials made clear in a series of negotiations with the US in recent weeks that removing levies on $200 billion of Chinese goods quickly was necessary to finalize any deal, said the people, who weren’t authorized to talk publicly about the... read more

Xi will meet on Friday with officials including US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who are in the capital for crunch talks towards a trade deal, the South China Morning Post reported, as the world’s two biggest... read more

The world’s two largest economies are trying to strike a deal on trade by early March to avoid a planned increase in the tariff rate being imposed on Chinese imports by the United States. read more

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Awkward laughter rose through the crowd before Trudeau rebuffed the man’s question, saying people in politics have a wide range of opinions of leaders. read more

As a partial shutdown of the US government entered its eighth day, with no quick end in sight, the Republican president was in Washington, sending out tweets attacking Democrats and talking up possibly improved relations with China. read more

China and the US are currently locked in an ongoing trade war as each country has introduced tariffs on goods traded between each other. Trump has promised to fix China’s “long time abuse of the broken international system and unfair practices”. read more

US president Donald Trump has referred to India as “tariff king” and raised a low-volume export– Harley-Davidson motorbikes – to call attention to India’s import duties. read more

World leaders, including China, Japan, India and other Asia-Pacific countries, will push for the rapid completion of a massive, China-backed trade deal that excludes the US at a summit this week, in a rebuke to rising protectionism and Donald Trump’s... read more

Hong Kong jumped more than four percent, while Shanghai and the yuan soared as dealers seized on the news, hoping for a breakthrough in a standoff that has rocked global equities and fuelled warnings about global growth. read more