Rep. Steve King (R-IA) expressed worries of escalating Chinese tariffs on American exports during a Friday interview with host Rebecca Mansour and guest host Frances Martel during SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, talked about China’s long-running trade war against the United States with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Frances Martel on Friday’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Mnuchin described himself as “cautiously optimistic” that a deal to avoid trade barriers could be reached with China, in part because Trump and Chinese President XI Jinping “have a very good relationship.”
Free traders — myself included — will have our turn. But for now, the debate has changed. When in a trade war, we must win.
So what happened to the dreaded trade war? Either trade wars are not as bad for stocks as many of the market pundits believe or perhaps investors are not as worried that tariffs will lead to all-out trade combat.
White House Economic advisor Larry Kudlow reacted to the stock market jitters following China’s decision to levy tariffs on American products in response to President Donald Trump’s tough actions on China.
“We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S.,” President Trump wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
China retaliated Monday against President Donald Trump’s $60 billion of tariffs with just $3 billion of tariffs on mostly fruit, wine, nuts and pork.
China imposed tariffs on U.S. farm goods and other commodities, making good on its promise to retaliate against the Trump administration’s penalties on imports of steel and aluminum.
Economist and Asia Times columnist David P. Goldman joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss President Donald Trump’s trade negotiations with China and other Asian nations.
Trump is starting a trade war, scream the headlines. But a closer look reveals that the President is simply trying to recover some of the losses suffered over the years by American companies at Beijing’s hands.
“If somebody imposes a trade war on China, we’ll fight to the end,” China’s ambassador to the U.S. said on state television.
Trump put the proposed tariffs of ten percent on aluminum and 25 percent on steel in the context of NAFTA, working with Mexico and Canada to renegotiate the free trade deal.
China has signaled significant changes to its top diplomatic lineup due to growing tensions with the Trump administration over trade issues and intellectual property theft. The changes also appear consistent with President Xi Jinping’s effort to consolidate power by installing friends and loyalists in important positions.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defended Donald Trump’s tough stance on trade, warning the world that he was ready to fight.
Following his meeting with President Donald Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he will freeze the assets of 35 North Korean entities in response to the country’s escalating nuclear crisis.
David P. Goldman salutes his friend Steve Bannon – the former White House strategist now returned home to Breitbart News – for his perspective on the threats posed by North Korea and China. Goldman argues the world owes Bannon thanks for heading off a military confrontation with North Korea, but warns a longer, colder struggle against China is the “main event.”
After leaked papers revealed the European Union (EU) is plotting to take the UK to court to extract a £50 million ‘divorce bill’, Whitehall sources have indicated the UK could hit back with trade tariffs.
The European Union (EU) is laying the groundwork for a legal challenge against U.S. plans to impose a border tax, in what could be the biggest case in the World Trade Organization’s history.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he expects President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico will cost between from $12 to $15 billion, according to a report by Stratfor Global Intelligence.
The Chinese state media has invoked former President Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” rhetoric in addressing President-Elect Donald Trump’s discussions of possible tariffs.
Although China, with its huge Treasury bond holdings, was seen during the Obama administration as having a strong hand in trade negotiations, President-elect Trump is aggressively communicating that the need for access to U.S. consumers is China’s weakness.
Although Donald Trump’s election was shocking to the Mexican government, President Enrique Pena Nieto was one of first world leaders to congratulate President-elect Trump and seems ready to negotiate a new economic deal to prevent a trade war.
With a “predatory” currency devaluation following the Brexit, China is now exporting deflation.
In a remarkable Sunday edition of The Boston Globe, the paper’s editors go all in for the fight to block GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from winning the Republican Party’s nomination.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has promised to shred America’s trade deals and impose fines on imports from Mexico and China. He’s gone so far as to swear off Oreos to protest Nabisco’s transfer of cookie production from Chicago to Mexico.
Mitt Romney’s Thursday anti-Trump address seemed to rely heavily on the talking points employed by donor-class favorite Sen. Marco Rubio.
With China devaluing its currency, stocks crashing 3 percent and capital flight accelerating, China has cut bank its bank reserve requirements to free up $100 billion in credit.
At a CNN town hall Thursday, businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump once again put the issue of manufacturing front and center in the 2016 race.
The People’s Bank of China has devalued the yuan 2.9 percent since Monday–the biggest plunge in the currency’s value since the mid-1990s. China’s currency devaluation is a classic predatory trade war action to save up to 60 million Chinese factory jobs at the expense of millions of American and European workers.
