China’s President Xi Jinping is reported to have been livid at the imposition of US sanctions on China’s Equipment Development Department and its director, Li Shangfu, for purchasing Russian Su-35

US and trade sensitive global markets continued to rally overnight and today on reports that US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has reached out to his negotiating counterpart, Vice Premier Liu

On Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted from aboard Air Force One a threat of further tariffs on another $267 billion of imports from China, behind the $200 billion list that was

With the US Labor Day weekend and summer holidays fading slowly into the rearview mirror, the traditional home stretch in the campaigning for US elections in November has begun in

This weekend’s headlines were dominated by the tough rhetoric and aggressive Chinese official media editorials that included vows to dig in for a protracted trade war with the US, even

From what we understand, China’s Vice Minister Liu He turned down a request a few days ago from the US Ambassador to China, former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, to meet

US President Donald Trump rattled markets with the announcement on Tuesday that he had asked Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to draw up a list of an additional $200 billion of

President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of China’s highest decision-making body, the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Zhongnanhai, Beijing on June 21. It was the

Beijing is preparing a very tough response to the latest threat on the trade front from President Donald Trump yesterday, when he ordered United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to

In an in-depth one-on-one meeting last month with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Liu He, China’s Vice Premier in charge of trade negotiations with the US, laid out a very clear retaliatory path should

The spin game is now well underway to assign responsibility for the surprise announcement today by President Donald Trump to cancel his much-awaited summit meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un that

American and Chinese officials have gone out of their way since the high-profile visit by Vice Premier Liu He to Washington last week to emphasize that “trade wars are over”

US President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the 2015 nuclear accord negotiated by the Obama Administration between the “P5+1” – comprised of the UN Security Council permanent five members, US,

Markets have been cheered by a somewhat more conciliatory tone over the last week or so from China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, reflecting a desire by

The White House has notified the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill that it intends to send a “rescission” proposal their way early next month that would strip a still unspecified

In the wake of a strong, even aggressive, push on trade, the Trump Administration has grasped the proverbial olive branch that was cautiously extended last weekend by China’s President Xi

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