27 h. ago Australia’s Albanese Heads to China as Trump Stresses Alliance

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to travel to China from this weekend, seeking to strengthen ties with his country’s largest trading partner while its top security ally US aims to check Beijing’s presence in Asia.

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27 h. ago Australian Premier Heads to China as Trump Stresses Alliance

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to travel to China for the first time since 2023, seeking to strengthen ties with his country’s largest trading partner while its top security ally US aims to check Beijing’s presence in Asia.

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5 d. ago Trump Aides Envision Presidential Trip to China With CEOs in Tow

President Donald Trump’s administration is reaching out to business executives to weigh interest in accompanying him on a possible trip to China this year, according to people familiar with the matter, highlighting the potential for strengthening ties between the economies even as the US signals its desire to decouple from Beijing.

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9 d. ago China Shows Off Tech Resilience in Face of Trump Export Controls

As Donald Trump brandishes US export controls on technology as a bargaining chip to wrest supplies of rare earth magnets from Beijing, China is showcasing what it can do without the most advanced American semiconductors.

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1 week ago Trump says he’s terminating trade talks with Canada over tax on technology firms

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s immediately suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, which he called “a direct and blatant attack on our country.” Trump, in a post on his social media network on Friday, said that Canada had just informed the U.S. […]

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1 week ago Trump ’terminating’ trade talks with Canada over digital tax

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s immediately suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, which he called “a direct and blatant attack on our country.” Trump, in a post on his social media network on Friday, said that Canada had just informed the U.S. […]

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1 week ago Nike soars on a production shift away from China, but it warns of a $1 billion tariff hit

Nike’s shares jumped at the opening bell Friday after the company said it’s shifting some production away from China. But it also warned that tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will cost it about $1 billion before it makes internal changes, which include “surgical” price increases in the U.S. starting this fall. Nike is not […]

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1 week ago Trump says U.S. has signed China trade deal, with plans for India next

The agreement follows initial talks in Geneva last month that led both sides to postpone massive tariff hikes that were threatening to freeze much trade between the two countries.

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1 week ago Trump says US has signed a deal with China on trade, without giving details

BANGKOK (AP) — The U.S. and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Donald Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg TV that the deal was signed earlier this week. Neither Lutnick nor Trump provided any details about the agreement. “We just signed […]

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1 week ago Reeling from Trump rebukes, Europe weighs deeper ties with China

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Jilted, betrayed, dumped, or defiant. It’s hard to describe the European Union after relentless attacks from its once-dependable ally, the United States. The threat from Donald Trump’s second administration against Greenland, its sweeping tariff plans and courtship of Moscow have firmed up some European leaders’ vows to reduce their reliance on […]

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1 week ago With July 1 looming, talks between Senators and Claude Giroux continue

The talk has yet to turn to action for the Ottawa Senators and Claude Giroux. The good news is that the two sides are continuing to work on trying to keep the 37-year-old winger in the fold, but they still have a gap to bridge to get a contract extension in place. Steve Staios, the […]

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2 w. ago Trump Eases Pressure on Iran by Saying China Can Buy Its Oil

President Donald Trump said China can continue to purchase oil from Iran, abruptly easing the “maximum pressure” the US had been applying to the Middle Eastern country’s economic lifeblood.

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2 w. ago Trump Pledge of Quick China Magnet Flows Has Yet to Materialize

Almost 10 days since President Donald Trump declared a “done” trade deal with Beijing, US companies remain largely in the dark on when they’ll receive crucial magnets from China — and whether Washington, in turn, will allow a host of other exports to resume.

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2 w. ago Talks continue between Senators and Claude Giroux as Ottawa's off

Although there is speculation that the two sides are at a stalemate, they have held discussions every couple of days to see if they can bridge the gap between them.

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3 w. ago Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney knows he has to choose Trump over China

If he wants a trade deal, the prime minister knows what he has to do

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4 w. ago Alberta teachers vote 95% in favour of strike action, talks to continue this month

Nearly 39,000 Alberta teachers voted on the latest deal, and both sides are scheduled to go back to the bargaining table this month.

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4 w. ago U.S., China trade talks ‘going well’ on 2nd day, Lutnick says

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he expects trade talks to continue all day, but added discussions between the U.S. and China were "going well."

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4 w. ago Trump Says China ‘Not Easy’ as Trade Talks to Continue Tuesday

Trade talks between the US and China will continue into a second day, according to a US official, as the two sides look to ease tensions over shipments of technology and rare earth elements.

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4 w. ago U.S. and China are holding trade talks after Trump’s call with Xi

LONDON (AP) — High-level delegations from the United States and China are meeting in London on Monday to try and shore up a fragile truce in a trade dispute that has roiled the global economy, A Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier He Lifeng was due to hold talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, […]

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