WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s government vowed Friday to “counterattack with great strength” if President Donald Trump goes ahead with plans to raise U.S. tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of Chinese goods and said negotiations were impossible under current conditions. Trump’s surprise move Thursday to instruct the U.S. trade representative to consider additional tariffs […]
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Maine escapes first wave of Chinese tariffs
Maine’s biggest exports, including lobster, wood pulp and airplane parts, are not targeted by the first round of Chinese tariffs in the brewing trade war with America. China released its list of 128 U.S. products targeted for tax hikes in retaliation for President Trump’s trade sanctions on Chinese aluminum and steel on Monday, the day […]
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China targets $3 billion of U.S. goods in tariff spat
BEIJING (AP) — China announced a $3 billion list of U.S. goods for possible retaliation in a tariff dispute with President Donald Trump and girded Friday for a bigger battle over technology policy as financial markets sank on fears of global disruption. The Commerce Ministry said higher duties on pork, apples, steel pipe and other […]
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Donald Trump to punish China on trade
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was ready to hit China with billions of dollars in trade sanctions Thursday for stealing American technology and pressuring U.S. companies to hand it over. Farmers, electronics retailers and other U.S. businesses braced for a backlash as the Chinese government vowed to take “all necessary measures” to defend itself […]
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Xi is transforming China. Is Washington taking notice?
NEW YORK — Amid the flurry of news about Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner and the latest Trump reality show on guns, it would be easy to miss what’s happening in China. But it is huge and consequential. China is making the most significant change to its political system in 35 years. What impact will […]
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China turns away from genuine democracy
For the last five years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has methodically acquired additional positions of authority within China’s government. Xi is this century’s most powerful Chinese leader. His power matches that of modernizer Deng Xiaoping and approaches that possessed by Chairman Mao Zedong. So prepare for Emperor Xi, a high-tech 21st century monarch clothed in […]
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China sends ominous signal about territorial claims
On January 22, Chinese government media angrily accused the U.S. of “wantonly provoking trouble” in the South China Sea. The alleged American provocation? On January 17, the U.S. Navy’s USS Hopper, a guided missile destroyer, passed within 12 miles of Scarborough Shoal — a sea feature within Filipino territory that China now calls Huangyan Island. […]
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China and the global race for knowledge
WASHINGTON — The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial “Science & Engineering Indicators,” a voluminous document describing the state of American technology. There are facts and figures on research and development, innovation and engineers. But the report’s main conclusion lies elsewhere: China has become — or is on […]
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China disrupts ecomaine and other recyclers with ‘foreign garbage’ ban
China has prompted “a crisis in the recycling world” with its decision to no longer accept what its regulators call “foreign garbage” such as paper contaminated with pizza grease. The action by China, long known for its willingness to import and repurpose recyclables from the United States and elsewhere, is being felt in Maine and […]
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U.S., China hold low-key military talks amid North Korea tensions
This image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea’s KRT on Nov. 29, 2017, shows an image of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un signing what is said to be a document on Nov. 28, 2017, authorizing a missile test. After two and a half months of relative peace, North Korea […]