The United States and China have agreed on a framework for a new trade deal as President Donald Trump continues his Asia trip.

This gives only a subset of oil traders—for example, those in India and China—a little time to complete their trades using alternative currencies like the yuan, and then offload the oil from the aging tankers by the time limit.

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However, those of us who listened to VOA knew that the reality was completely different.

To encourage domestic development, Beijing has forbidden the use of existing Nvidia chips in China.

of China's formal name, the People's Republic of China.

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Feb. 25 that the United States has been in touch with China regarding tariffs in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of tariffs under emergency powers, and the plan is to keep

Steve Daines (R-Mont.) called on Beijing to address China’s manufacturing of precursor chemicals used in fentanyl production, an issue that President Donald Trump has cited as a reason for his recent tariff hikes against the country.

Western businesses profit from all this trade and use their political influence to try and keep that gravy train going by attempting to stabilize U.S.-China relations. That would be fine if China were also a status quo power. But the CCP is not.

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For years, Chinese tech companies have used variable interest entities (VIEs) off-shore shell-companies to skirt Beijing's regulations, prohibiting foreigners from owning shares of Chinese tech companies.

Tai even threatened another “Section 301 investigation” of the sort Trump used to initiate the tariffs back in 2019.

He said that Washington cannot allow its northern border to be used as a way for Chinese electric vehicles (EV) to come into the United States—a sign that the Canada–China deal has become a fresh point of contention.

Typical is the judgment of Jeremy Daum, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. He declared that Beijing’s “legislative changes don’t increase the risk to foreign businesses in China.”

Bloomberg reported that the tariffs could focus on cars and auto parts coming out of China.

A report published in February by Freedom House's China Dissent Monitor tallied 5,343 protest events across China in 2025, marking a 44 percent increase from the 3,704 incidents tracked in 2024.

According to officials, the United States is dropping the extra tariffs it imposed on China this year to 30 percent from 145 percent, while China is slashing its levies to 10 percent from 125 percent.

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Bowen also applauded the Biden administration for managing to pass the Inflation Reduction Act that will see the U.S. federal government pump US$369 billion into climate change initiatives.

Pro-CCP influencers frequently use reaction-style videos and humor to mock U.S. claims that China poses a threat in the Arctic, dismissing American security concerns as exaggerated or paranoid.

“China has surpassed, or ‘out-sticked,’ us in some missile capabilities as well,” Perdue wrote. China has the world’s largest navy with more than 370 ships, according to a report published by the Pentagon last year.

Additionally, all U.S. submarines, regardless of weaponry, use nuclear propulsion. France and the UK each have four. China has between four and six nuclear ballistic-missile submarines.

Rare-earths are used in magnets for wind turbines and EVs. Graphite is used in EV batteries, and 90 percent of graphite refining is done in China. 

to shift sourcing out of China in the near future.

In March, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China issued a report stating that Beijing had used several tactics, including intimidation and visa curbs, to restrict foreign reporting in 2020.

About one-fifth of the posts will need to focus on “cooperation and any good things in China-US relations.”

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A large ship-to-shore crane is used to load cargo containers off a ship at the international cargo terminal in the Port of Tokyo, on Nov. 16, 2023.