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US-China trade dispute

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Trump administration set to impose steep fees on Chinese ships

    Beijing warns planned US port charges will drive up shipping costs and disrupt supply chains

    2 hours ago
    Cranes at the Port of Seattle are seen with the Seattle skyline in the background.
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    China stops buying liquefied gas from US

    Standstill shows how Sino-American trade war has spilled into energy sector

    Large storage tanks with Sinopec branding dominate the view at the Longkou LNG Base in Yantai, Shandong province, China
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Trump’s tariffs unravel US supply chains at China’s export showcase

    Buyers and sellers at Canton trade fair search for ways to evade levies as goods pile up in warehouses

    A customer tests a massage chair at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    IPOs
    Chinese ‘teaspresso’ chain Chagee jumps on Wall Street debut

    Strong performance comes despite worsening ties between Washington and Beijing

    People queue up for tea drinks at a Chagee booth
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    IMF chief cuts growth forecast over ‘off the charts’ trade uncertainty

    Kristalina Georgieva warns that Donald Trump’s tariff ‘reboot’ threatens to raise prices and play havoc with markets

    Kristalina Georgieva speaking
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Energy sector
    Trump’s policies could give China lead in global energy race, say experts

    Trade war and cleantech retreat are threats to US producers and may boost Beijing

    An aerial view shows the headquarters of Chinese EV battery maker CATL
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Nvidia
    Nvidia chief Jensen Huang flies to Beijing for talks

    Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker’s sales to China

    Jensen Huang arrives in Beijing on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    DeepSeek
    US House panel probes whether DeepSeek used restricted Nvidia chips

    Lawmakers say the Chinese AI group is a ‘profound threat’ to national security

    DeepSeek logo on a mobile phone
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US places sanctions on Chinese refinery over Iran oil purchases

    Trump administration accuses Shandong Shengxing Chemical of buying crude as it increases pressure on Beijing and Tehran

    A gas flare on an oil production platform is seen alongside an Iranian flag
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Nvidia
    Nvidia blindsided by Trump’s curbs in multibillion-dollar blow to China sales

    US chipmaker reveals $5.5bn impairment, while full hit to China revenues could surpass $10bn

    Jensen Huang
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Nvidia
    Nvidia to take $5.5bn hit as US clamps down on AI chip sales to China

    Trump administration’s curbs send chipmaker’s shares sliding

    The Nvidia logo
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Trump tariff war to slash North American exports by 13%, warns WTO

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says US-China trade conflict could ‘force countries to choose’ between the two

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Chinese economy
    China defies Trump’s tariffs with strong first-quarter growth

    Exporters frontload shipments to beat levies as US president says ‘ball’ is in Beijing’s court to start talks

    A container ship at the port in Qingdao in China’s eastern Shandong province
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump threatens to hit critical minerals with tariffs

    US president could escalate trade conflict with Beijing by launching probe into supplies

    Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    Will China back down?

    Beijing may have more leverage than President Donald Trump thought

  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    InterviewJamie Dimon
    Trump trade war could challenge US credibility, says Jamie Dimon

    JPMorgan chief tells the FT that Washington and Beijing ‘should engage’ as tariffs escalate

    Jamie Dimon
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Business InsightJune Yoon
    Trump has given BYD the edge over Tesla

    Chinese carmaker’s absence from the US, once seen as a weakness, has turned into an asset

    A BYD car, with its scissor doors open, is on display at a motor show in Germany
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    Xi urges Vietnam to oppose Trump’s tariff ‘bullying’

    US president says countries are trying to ‘screw’ America as China looks to shore up ties with trade partners

    Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Vietnam’s National Assembly chair Tran Thanh Man in Hanoi on Monday
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    News in-depthTrump tariffs
    Trade, tech and Treasuries: China holds cards in US tariff stand-off

    Planning, diversified markets and control of strategic materials potentially give Beijing leverage — if it can bear the pain

    A montage showing Xi Jinping and Donald Trump
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Gideon Rachman
    Why Xi holds a stronger hand than Trump

    The White House has miscalculated the balance of power in its tariff war with China

    James Ferguson illustration of Trump and Xi playing poker. China holds all the best cards on the poker table representing the trade war.
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Chinese trade
    China says ‘sky won’t fall’ as exports surge ahead of Trump’s tariffs

    Rush of shipments preceded escalation of trade war between world’s two biggest economies

    Containers and cranes at the container port in Lianyungang in eastern China’s Jiangsu province
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    Untangling the spaghetti bowl of tariffs

    Public disagreement within the Trump administration has grown over the past two weeks

    US President Donald Trump
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    Xi warns ‘no winners’ from Trump trade war as he heads to Vietnam

    Chinese leader seeks to strengthen ties with export-dependent economies facing high US levies

    Vietnam’s General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam and China’s President Xi Jinping
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump exempts smartphones from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

    Dispensation is first sign of softening of levies against China and provides a big boost for Apple

    iPhones on display at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Arthur Kroeber
    China is well positioned to weather Trump’s trade war

    Five years of export controls have helped it get very good at making things without American technology

    A woman walks past a fashion store in China
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