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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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A Trillion Dollar Plan to Rebuild the World Makes China the New Global Leader
While most of the world wonders nervously what’s next from the Trump White House, the confident China President Xi Jinping is shifting his bid for global leadership into a full-court press.
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China Fires Up a Massive Floating Solar Farm
By Irina Slav, Oilprice.comImages of the Beijing smog and millions of people wearing masks to be able to breathe are among the more dramatic depictions of air pollution caused by excessive industrialization. Now that China is...
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Why China, Not OPEC, Will Make or Break the Price of Oil This Year
By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.comThe OPEC deal will lead to an ongoing tightening of the crude oil market, putting a floor beneath crude prices in the $50s per barrel in the second half of 2017, according to Helima Croft of RBC...
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Are China’s Hidden Liabilities Behind Moody’s Ratings Downgrade?
Concerns about China’s “massive debt burden” and slowing economy are causing new concerns after Moody’s Investor Services sounded a full-blown alarm this week downgrading China’s credit rating on...
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Why China May Be Headed for a Massive Bank Bailout
By John Ruwitch and Yawen Chen, ReutersMoody's Investors Service downgraded China's credit ratings on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 30 years, saying it expects the financial strength of the economy will erode in coming years as...
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As the US Pulls Back, China Boosts Global Trade on a New Silk Road
By Ben Blanchard and Sue-Lin Wong, ReutersChinese President Xi Jinping and 29 other heads of state on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to build an open economy and ensure free and inclusive trade, under the ambitious Belt and Road...
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Trump Projects Confidence As China Meeting Looms
By Rob GarverLess than a week before he sits down with the president of China for what will be his most complex and challenging foreign negotiation since taking office, President Trump gave an interview to The...
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Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future
By Evelyn ChengElon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...
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Tillerson’s Asia Trip Could Signal the End US Soft Diplomacy
Tillerson’s tour is an opening round in an extended process. But early signals indicate that Washington risks serious damage to important relationships across the Pacific—notably with China and South...
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Trump to Finally Crack Down on China's Hacks, Theft and Lies at US Expense
By Liz PeekLong coddled by establishment Foggy Bottom types and by U.S. corporations salivating over China’s burgeoning markets, Beijing has met little resistance as it has cyber attacked U.S. corporate and...
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Merkel Softens...Cameron Hardens...Spain Punts
By CARLOS RUANO and ANDREAS RINKE, ReutersChancellor Angela Merkel underlined Germany's readiness to use all instruments to maintain stability in the eurozone on Thursday, fueling expectations that Spain may soon decide to seek help for its...
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China Cuts Interest Rate on Growth Worries
By KEVIN YAO and NICK EDWARDS, ReutersChina delivered a surprise interest rate cut on Thursday to combat faltering growth, underlining concern among policymakers worldwide that the euro area’s deepening crisis is threatening the health...
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US Military Equipment Built with Counterfeit Parts
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesThe U.S. Defense Department has purchased more than a million Chinese-made counterfeit parts that find their way into the goods supplied by leading defense contractors, a new study from the Senate...
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Eurozone Crisis Has Investors Heading for the Grexit
If you were writing the story about the financial crisis and the euro crisis as a work of fiction, your editor would say you've jumped the shark. Who would believe that after signing a $43 billion...
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Young Workers in China: 'We're Human, Not Machines'
By SUI-LEE WEE, ReutersThe shifting expectations and opportunities of tens of millions of young Chinese workers from the countryside who have turned their country into a workshop of the world are worth noting: Their...