8 h. ago US treasury secretary and Chinese vice premier plan another meet over ‘unsustainable’ tariff hike

Scott Bessent says he expects to meet with He Lifeng in Malaysia next week

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55 h. ago Scott Bessent says Chinese top trade envoy came to Washington uninvited

US treasury secretary says Li Chenggang was ‘unhinged’ and ‘disrespectful’ during visit to DC in August

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4 d. ago Slowdown in US hiring suggests economy still needs rate cuts, Fed's Powell says

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says that a sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy

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4 d. ago Scott Bessent accuses China of trying to damage global economy

US Treasury secretary tells FT Beijing’s restrictions on critical mineral exports will hurt its own international standing

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7 d. ago Trump threatens 100% China tariffs as Beijing restricts rare

President accuses China of ‘very hostile’ moves and says additional tariffs could come on 1 November ‘or sooner’Donald Trump has threatened to impose additional US tariffs of 100% on China from next month, accusing Beijing of “very hostile” moves to restrict exports of rare earths needed for American industry.Wall Street fell sharply after the US president reignited public tensions with the Chinese government, and raised the prospect of another acrimonious trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump plans aid package for US soybean farmers while seeking trade deal with China

President Donald Trump is making plans for a significant aid package for U.S. soybean farmers

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2 w. ago Trump administration imposes sanctions on some Iranian people and firms after UN decision

The U.S. imposes new sanctions on firms and individuals linked to Iran's missile and military aircraft production

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3 w. ago Argentina’s Milei to meet Trump for talks on US financial lifeline

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that ‘all options’ were on the table

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3 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy heads to the UN as US envoy vows to defend Nato territory

Ukrainian president is expected to meet Trump on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York; Washington’s new UN envoy convenes emergency meeting. What we know on day 1,308See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has landed in New York where he will attend the United Nations general assembly and try to drum up support for a US-led peace effort to end the war in Ukraine. “We are doing everything to stop the war,” he wrote on X on Tuesday, adding that he had two dozen meetings scheduled. The Ukrainian leader is expected to meet US president Donald Trump and other world leaders on the sidelines of the UN meeting, and deliver an address on Wednesday.Zelenskyy said he would also attend the first leaders’ summit of the Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, which would for the first time be held on a global stage. The meeting, he said, underlined “the global nature of the changes brought about by this war, the war that Russia began ...

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4 w. ago Deal to transfer TikTok to US control unresolved despite Trump

Trump has said deal is agreed but details remain unclear, while both sides say leaders’ call was positiveDonald Trump’s attempts to broker a deal that would transfer TikTok from Chinese to US control remained unresolved on Friday despite a call between the US president and Xi Jinping.China and the US have been at loggerheads over trade negotiations and the future of TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform that faces a ban in the US. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump touts ‘productive’ call with Xi and says he plans to go to China next year – live

Trump says he and the Chinese president made progress on TikTok and trade; the two leaders will meet in South Korea at summit next monthToday, lawmakers in the House will vote on legislation, known as a “continuing resolution” (CR), to prevent a looming government shutdown at the end of September.The bill, introduced by Republicans, would fund the government until 21 November. According to Politico, House GOP whip Tom Emmer was confident, as of Thursday, that his party had enough votes. “We’re going to pass this,” he said in an interview. Continue reading...

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