President Trump ordered top administration officials Thursday to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major shift on the sprawling multination #trade pact he rejected just days after taking office. Rejoining the pact would come… Read More
WASHINGTON — As President Trump moves to fulfill one of the central promises of his campaign — to get tough on an ascendant #China — he faces a potential rebellion from a core constituency: farmers… Read More
The prime minister’s remarks set her on course for a major skirmish with officials in Brussels, who have offered a “status quo” transition period until December 2020, including free movement and citizens’ rights for those… Read More
#China is to pump even more credit into its economy in a bid to boost growth despite fears of a massive build-up of debt. Over the weekend, the country’s central bank moved to lower the… Read More
“I am not ruling anything out,” Branstad said on Nov. 19 at an annual fundraiser, the Des Moines Register reported. “But you know my focus has always been here on #Iowa and I want to… Read More
At least four radical young activists who support greater political autonomy or outright independence from #China claimed seats in #Hong Kong’s 70-member Legislative Council, or Legco, after a record 2.2 million people went to the… Read More
One day after a UN tribunal ruled overwhelmingly against Chinese claims to huge swaths of the strategically important waterway, Beijing rebuffed the verdict, calling it “a piece of paper that is destined to come to… Read More
It began, as stories often do, with a message from #The Economist’s foreign editor in London. He had spotted a new book which argued that many high profile Chinese investments in Africa were phantoms –… Read More