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The U.S. and China have cut the tariffs levied on each other in April, with the U.S. cutting the 145% tax Trump imposed last month to 30%. China agreed to lower its tariff rate on U.S. goods to 10% ...

UK accused of aligning with US in move that could compel firms to exclude Chinese products from supply chains
China has warned the UK over its new trade deal with the US, accusing Britain of aligning with the US in a move that could compel British companies to exclude Chinese products from their supply chains.
The UK-US trade deal, signed last week, offers Britain limited relief from US tariffs on car and steel exports, but only if it complies with strict American security requirements. These conditions include scrutinising supply chains and ownership structures – a move widely interpreted as targeting Chinese involvement.

, saying it is a ‘basic principle’ that bilateral agreements should not target other nations
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A surprise deal in the trade war gives businesses breathing room - but many now want to find new markets.

Yang Hengjun writes he can ‘only use a silent voice to thank you and all the people who care for and love me’
Jailed has written to Anthony Albanese from his prison cell in Beijing, thanking him for repeatedly expressing Australia’s “grave concerns” about his deteriorating health to Chinese officials.
Yang, who was by a Chinese court in February 2024 after already serving five years in detention on espionage charges that he denies, told the prime minister “words are now failing me”.

Beijing is trying to win over other countries with vows of economic cooperation. But it won’t back down from its territorial claims, experts predict.

Shooting down of India’s planes by Beijing’s customer Pakistan would mark the first time the fighters and their PL-15 missiles have been used in combat
As India and Pakistan traded missile strikes over the weekend, and the world watched with horror as the two nuclear-armed neighbours erupted into open conflict, military analysts spotted something curious. Pakistan, it seemed, had used Chinese jets to shoot down India’s planes.
Last week, India launched missiles at , in retaliation for in April that killed 26 people. The conflict escalated with mutual strikes and drone attacks.

Sunrise Drive Elementary School offers a Chinese immersion program. Students are also able to take classes at the middle and high school levels.

Chinese imports to the U.S. dropped to their lowest levels since the pandemic as punishing tariffs began to take hold in March.

The flow of video between China and the United States raises strange possibilities — whether national image-making or hawking consumer goods.

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The White House says it is borrowing from Bernie Sanders and adopts rhetoric once dismissed as dangerous to lift its flagging poll ratings
It’s striking to see Donald Trump, who built his re-election campaign around attacking the “radical left”, now borrowing some of its economic policies. In just months, he has shifted from denouncing “” price controls to saying he would them, and from defending tax breaks for the wealthy to tax increases on those earning more than $2.5m a year if it benefits poorer Americans. These moves echo longstanding proposals from progressives like – despite Mr Trump’s past efforts to portray such ideas as “”. The irony is hard to miss.
Consider recent policy announcements that mirror a liberal-left agenda. Capping credit card interest rates was a Sanders before it was a Trump . And it may happen – courtesy of an unlikely alliance between . Slashing drug prices by executive fiat? Absolutely, says Robert F Kennedy Jr, Mr Trump’s secretary of health, crediting for the idea. The Vermont senator , saying the administration’s plan would be “thrown out” by judges – and that meaningful reform required legislation.
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