China’s President Xi Jinping is set to announce a series of measures at the opening of the Boao Forum for Asia scheduled for tonight (tomorrow morning, local time). These measures,

To date, Beijing has twice threatened deliberately targeted tit-for-tat punitive measures against the US – first, in response to the Trump Administration’s threat of steel and aluminum tariffs, and second, in response to broader measures aimed

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, known for his particularly harsh views on China, announced that President Trump will “over the next few weeks” consider the recommendations presented by US

The White House announced President Trump intends to move forward with an announcement on proposed steel and aluminum tariffs, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has confirmed the Administration is scrambling to get the finishing documents

Sources close to China’s powerful incoming Vice-Premier, Liu He, report that his just concluded trip to Washington DC was successful in achieving the goals Beijing originally set out for the

If there is a silver lining in the 1,200-point drop and ongoing volatility in the Dow these last few days, it is its marked impact on sentiment across Capitol Hill today, namely an

Barring last minute disruptive tweets or inchoate demands from the fringes of both parties, we are fairly confident H.J.Res.125 will pass, if not by its Friday midnight deadline, then over the weekend before Monday morning.  But

As of mid-afternoon today: The Republican leadership is expected to release the details of the latest and perhaps final version of the “Tax Cut and Jobs Act” tomorrow at 9

In the wake of last night’s upset win by the Democrat Doug Jones for the Alabama Senate seat, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved quickly this morning to confirm that Jones will not be seated until

Events are moving very quickly in the Senate in the last few hours that are pointing to likely passage of the Senate tax cut bill late tonight. *** A crucial concession won by Maine

President Trump’s “huge” tax plan promised to cheering truck drivers in Pennsylvania yesterday will go the way of replacing Obamacare unless the Senate can soon pass a budget resolution. *** As of

The single most important takeaway in the unveiling of the “Big Six” tax blueprint earlier this week is not its much criticized lack of detail — there aren’t any, frankly — but rather what is

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s devastation to large swathes of Houston and eastern Texas, political developments are moving quickly in Washington even before Congress returns on Tuesday.   ***

There is perhaps no one more happy to see the Fourth of July break than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after the most recent stinging setback among Republicans on Capitol

We had previously tended to take the chatter of President Trump’s possible impeachment with a huge grain of salt. But after yesterday’s latest political bombshell, a tail risk of impeachment,

Among all the likely aftershocks in the wake of President Trump’s stunning sacking of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, the most certain will be a pre-occupied White House

The House Republican success in passing the amended American Health Care Act yesterday should give a nod of encouragement to the still badly divided GOP to move on to the

For all the sudden swirl of headlines of a new Treasury tax reform proposal coming “very soon” with “massive” tax cuts for everyone and a “breakthrough” among House Republicans for

On the heels of Donald Trump’s presidential victory, China’s Central Government ordered five departments led by the Ministry of Commerce to conduct an in-depth study of Sino-US trade relations, risk

In the wake of Friday’s disastrous collapse of the American Health Care Act, the White House and the badly bruised House Republican leadership did their best to quickly switch the