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While Tony Blair’s former advisor may have garnered support from EU member states, Britain’s Conservative government will reportedly block Peter Mandelson’s bid to become the next leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO) over his anti-Brexit views.

The government has reiterated that it will not extend the transition period after London and Brussels failed to make progress on an EU trade deal last week.

On May 20, speaking from the Senate floor, Josh Hawley, the youngest member of the chamber, laid out his plan for fixing international trade, taking on the People’s Republic of China—and thereby, too, perhaps saving America. 

Weihua Chen seems happy to advertise his journalistic credentials without worrying about the credentialing outfits asking him to return his honorific certificates. And if that silence continues to be the case, well, that says something about Knight, WPI, and Freedom Forum. Moreover, there’s nothing stopping any journalist from criticizing Chen, an obvious propagandist in their midst. But will they do so?

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) says the World Trade Organization (WTO) should be abolished in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus.

More than 9-in-10 Americans now call China’s power and influence in the world a “threat” to the United States, a new survey reveals. 

President Trump said he hopes Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) supporters back him in the 2020 presidential election against presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden because the two agree that the United States’ trade policy must put American workers before corporate interests. 

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro says the Chinese coronavirus crisis is vindicating President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda, underscoring how “dangerously over-dependent” the nation is on global supply chains overseas. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that if the UK wants a trade deal with access to the Single Market, Brexit Britain must stay constrained by EU rules.

International trade secretary Liz Truss has declared at the World Trade Organization that “Britain is back”, vowing to help reform the body.

The United Kingdom has retaken her independent seat at the World Trade Organization after formerly being represented by the European Union.

Cabinet minister Michael Gove has backed comments by Boris Johnson’s Treasury secretary that the UK does not need a deal with the EU to trade with it.

American farmers are backing President Trump in the United States’ trade war with China, calling the president’s billions in federal aid to farmers “a godsend.”

The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), mocked President Donald Trump’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday as “low-energy” and generally accused him of lying.

President Trump said globalist politicians “ignored” for years the “abuses” of China’s trade actions that helped gut American manufacturing and have been “proven completely wrong” in regards to free trade between the United States and China.

Rubio warned Americans in a Monday evening Senate floor speech that the threat from China to the United States can no longer be ignored.

A nasty diplomatic dispute between South Korea and Japan grew even more intense on Thursday as a South Korean lawmaker accused the Japanese of shipping banned materials to North Korea on 30 different occasions over the past 20 years, in some cases shipping items that were useful in the production of nuclear weapons.

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden promises his election will cure China’s unfair trade practices by means of his optimism.

Former Vice President and 2020 Democrat candidate for president Joe Biden still does not recognize the “huge mistake” and “disaster” of bringing China into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Curtis Ellis of America First Policies says.

An Ohio steel mill, forced into closure by free trade and imports, is reopening this year thanks to President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff on foreign steel imports.

José Ángel Gurría Treviño, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has said the world’s advanced economies are “absolutely” ready for a No Deal Brexit, and that they would help the United Kingdom to make it happen in “the most seamless possible way”.

The Chairman of JCB, one of Britain’s biggest manufacturers and exporters, has said there is “nothing to fear” from making a clean break with the EU in a so-called “No Deal” Brexit.

Chairman of Leave Means Leave John Longworth has said Britain will “prosper” if it makes a clean break from EU on World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has shot down a key Brexit scare story, confirming there is “nothing” in their rules which would require a so-called “hard” border between EU Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland following a “No Deal” Brexit.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denied reports of China’s diplomats barging into the office of Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit last weekend.

Walking away from the European Union (EU) with a clean, ‘no deal’ Brexit will boost the UK economy by £1.1 trillion over 15 years, an influential group of MPs led by Jacob Rees-Mogg will argue.

The foreign secretary today told the European Union (EU) leaders they would be making “a very, very big mistake” allowing Britain to leave the bloc without a trade deal, but said the UK could “thrive” with such an outcome. Jeremy

Pro-Brexit Tories are plotting to challenge the Prime Minister directly by drawing up their own “positive” plan for a clean Brexit, including a “no deal” exit from the European Union (EU).

Kevin Hassett raises the idea of throwing China out of the World Trade Organization.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the government will “appear fretful, weak, and incompetent” if it fails to prepare for a “no deal” clean Brexit, as they are accused of pushing “project fear” so the public will back a softer Brexit.

“America is fighting back and we’re winning again!” Trump said during remarks at the event.

The story of Danville is one echoed in countless communities across the country, a gutted middle class left for dead in the wake of sweeping international trade deals in Washington, applauded by liberal economists and a lockstep media portraying such policies as inevitable, ultimately good, and a win for the American consumer–a narrative usually coupled with condescending and disdainful attitudes toward displaced workers for a perceived inability to sprint ahead with the times.

President Donald Trump issued words of warning for the World Trade Organization on Monday, calling on it to start treating the United States “properly” or the U.S. will take action.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer laid out a reasoned rebuke this week of countries claiming a World Trade Organization (WTO) basis for retaliating against the United States’ new national security-based tariffs.

“He’s [threatened to withdraw] 100 times. It would totally [screw] us as a country,” a source told Axios.

Brexit secretary David Davis has thrown the Prime Minister’s favoured ‘customs partnership’ into doubt, claiming it could, in fact, be illegal according to international law, as he backs a clean Brexit instead.