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04.13.18China’s Trade Surplus with U.S. Soars in First Quarter but March Exports Falter
Reuters
China’s trade surplus with the United States surged nearly 20 percent in the first quarter, with some analysts speculating exporters were rushing out shipments to get ahead of threatened tariffs that are spurring fears of a full-blown trade war.
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06.13.17Trump’s Trade Restrictions Could Miss China And Slam Everybody Else
Chicago Tribune
Any restriction on imports of the key metals would likely fall on friendly U.S. trading partners, rather than on China, the ostensible target of the administration's concern about steel and aluminum imports.
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04.13.17Kim Jong Un’s Rockets Are Getting an Important Boost—from China
Washington Post
Despite China’s public efforts to rein in North Korea’s provocative behavior, Chinese companies continue to act as enablers, supplying the isolated communist regime with technology and hardware that allow its missiles to take flight
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04.05.17Why China’s Got Beef with U.S. Beef
Bloomberg
Beef may be on the table when the U.S. president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discuss trade during this week’s summit at Trump’s Florida resort.
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02.23.17The Biggest Loser If Trump Ignites a Trade War with China
CNBC
There’s at least one big loser if President Donald J. Trump ignites a trade war with China: Taiwan. The island democracy has a heavily export-dependent economy enmeshed in billions of dollars in U.S. and China trade.
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02.14.17U.S. Eyes New Tactic to Press China
Wall Street Journal
Currency strategy would avoid singling out country in bid to avoid break in relations
Features
07.01.16
The Rockets’ Red Glare
from Slate
The vast majority of the world’s fireworks come from China. And sometimes they explode early, with deadly consequences.
Environment
05.13.16
Why China's Nuclear Exports May Struggle to Find a Market
from chinadialogue
China’s nuclear power industry has eyed up a big push to export its technologies as countries around the world consider low-carbon alternatives to coal.But despite an increasingly clearer field for Chinese nuclear exports—mainly because of the woes...
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03.08.16U.S. Curbs China's ZTE Exports Over Iran Business Allegations
Reuters
A new U.S. export restriction against ZTE is likely to disrupt its sprawling global supply chain.