Italy’s Meloni Signs Three-Year ‘Action Plan’ with Communist China to Bolster Business Ties
Italy and China signed a three-year action plan on Sunday to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation.
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Germany’s Scholz Seeks Deeper Ties With Communist China ‘As Equals’ in First Beijing Visit
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the first Western leader to travel to Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping since the Chinese coronavirus crisis on Friday.
‘Kowtowing’ Boris Looks to Restart Trade Talks with Communist China
Boris Johnson will reportedly re-open high-level trade talks with Communist China for the first time since 2018
Angela Merkel Pushes for ‘Win-Win’ EU-China Trade Deal in Call With Xi Jinping
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a renewed push for the massive EU-China trade deal in a phone call with Xi Jinping.
Pete Buttigieg: Trump Should Have Never Started Trade War with China
“We shouldn’t have to pay farmers to take the edge off a trade war that should not have started in the first place,” Pete Buttigieg said.
Larry Kudlow: Trade Talk ‘Mood Music’ with China Has Improved
White House National Economic Council Larry Kudlow said, “The statements coming out of Beijing have been a little more positive, it seems like the mood music has improved.”
Frank Gaffney: Trump Must Declare, ‘I Am a Hong Konger’
President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress should declare, “We are Hong Kongers,” said Frank Gaffney, executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy and host of Secure Freedom Radio, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Report: Hollywood Actors Blacklisted in China as Trade War Continues
The Financial Times reported on Thursday that a growing number of American actors have been effectively blacklisted from the Chinese film and television industries.
Chinese Media: U.S. Human Rights Support ‘Empty Talk from a High-Pitched Speaker’
The Chinese Communist Party and its media organs were unsurprisingly livid at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for mentioning the Tiananmen Square massacre on its 30th anniversary and for criticizing China’s human rights record.
U.S.-China Trade Meetings Resume in Beijing Next Week
U.S. and Chinese trade officials will meet in Beijing next week and the following week in Washington, DC, for another round of pre-tariff increase trade talks.
Feds Arrest California Group for Aiding Chinese Exam and Visa Cheats
Federal investigators arrested five people for helping Chinese nationals cheat their way into U.S. universities — and then perhaps into U.S. jobs and research laboratories.
Xi Jinping: Globalization Will Happen ‘Independent of People’s Will’
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping warned attendees at the nation’s First China International Import Expo on Monday that economic globalization was “an overarching trend, something that is independent of people’s will” and that history would leave behind those sticking to policies benefitting their countries.
Former Canadian PM Stephen Harper: Updated NAFTA Is ‘Pretty Good Deal’ for U.S.
Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper says the freshly negotiated USMCA is a “pretty good deal” for the U.S.
Chinese Media Vow to Fight Against ‘Insult’ from Pence, Threaten ‘Cold War’
China’s state-run Global Times vowed over the weekend to fight back against “insults” from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and promised a “new Cold War” if the Trump administration forces the issue by continuing to produce “hostile reports and speeches.”
Peter Schweizer: China Targeting ‘Districts in the Heart of Trump Country’ to Meddle in 2018 Midterms
Government Accountability President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer warned of the Chinese government’s political influence operations within America during a Monday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
Mosher: Don’t Trust China on Trade Talks, Verify Everything
China’s Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen spent two days in Washington last week, resuming U.S.-China trade talks that broke down three months ago.
