Rhetoric vs. Reality in Trump’s Stance on China
During the long election campaign, Donald Trump consistently took a hard line on China, blaming...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 10, 2017
During the long election campaign, Donald Trump consistently took a hard line on China, blaming...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 7, 2016
China’s Great Firewall has come under renewed pressure from both ordinary Chinese web users...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 5, 2010
The Chinese government has announced that it will impose anti-dumping duties on chicken parts from the U.S. From Reuters: The Chinese Commerce Ministry’s initial investigation showed that U.S. companies had dumped chicken...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 3, 2010
In a question and answer session with Senate Democrats today, President Obama vowed to take a tougher stance on trade with China but said he opposed becoming protectionist. From BBC: At a meeting with Senate Democrats, Mr Obama...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 4, 2010
While an embargo bans companies who sell arms to Iran from conducting business in the U.S., many Chinese companies are skirting the rules to keep the trade routes open. The Wall Street Journal reports: A unit of state-owned...
by Liu Yong | Dec 22, 2009
From AFP: Copyright piracy in China remains at “unacceptably high levels,” causing “serious harm” to American businesses, the top US trade official said in an annual report to Congress Tuesday. US Trade...
by Liu Yong | Dec 21, 2009
From Bloomberg: World Trade Organization judges rejected a Chinese appeal of a ruling that held its restrictions on the sale of books, films and music from the U.S. illegal. The 183-page decision, issued today by the WTO’s...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 15, 2009
Bloomberg reports on Obama’s reception in Asia so far: Obama is using the trip to redefine the U.S. relationship with Asia from its biggest debtor and largest single buyer of consumer goods to a more balanced partnership...
by Liu Yong | Oct 11, 2009
From Reuters: The United States is going out of its way to build a warmer economic relationship with China and the strategy seems to be paying early dividends. In the past two weeks, China has endorsed a U.S.-backed commitment...
by Liu Yong | Oct 7, 2009
From Reuters: U.S. labor and manufacturing groups urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to live up to his campaign rhetoric and formally label China a currency manipulator in a Treasury Department report due out next week. But...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 17, 2009
Despite the recent imposition of steep tariffs of Chinese tires by the Obama administration, a trade war between the two countries is unlikely, according to Bloomberg: China’s imports, up 68 percent in five years, now amount to...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 13, 2009
China is retaliating against Obama’s announcement that the U.S. would impose hefty duties on tires imported from China. From China Daily: Just two days after the decision by the United States to levy heavy import tariffs...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 12, 2009
The New York Times reports on China’s response to President Obama’s decision to impose steep duties on tires imported from China: “China is firmly opposed to this measure of serious commercial protectionism by the...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 11, 2009
The Obama Administration has imposed steeper duties on imports of tires from China in response to a complaint from labor groups in the U.S., Reuters reports: The United Steelworkers union, which represents workers at many U.S....
by Sophie Beach | Sep 8, 2009
On China Law and Policy, Elizabeth Lynch writes a lengthy post, including a podcast interview with Jake Caldwell, director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade & Energy at the Center for American Progress, to help explain...
by Liu Yong | Aug 1, 2009
From Wall Street Journal: China launched formal complaints at the World Trade Organization in a bid to take down trade barriers set up by the European Union and U.S., a sign Beijing is fighting more aggressively to keep foreign...
by Xiao Qiang | Apr 26, 2009
From Forbes: If the e-mail had come from some other distant country, Wayne England might have dismissed it as a scam. But this one, an inquiry last November about buying his alpacas, was from China, so the 74-year-old Tennessee...
by Paulina Hartono | Mar 13, 2009
All eyes will be on China-U.S. discussions as the G-20 forum approaches. One economist has characterized the powerful relationship as the ‘G-2 group’ that will lead the way to global economic recovery. From NPR: When...