Tag: America First

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Xi promises a far more open China to the world, despite the trade dispute with US

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged that his country will be even more open to the world and debunked the notion of a “clash of civilization ”, even as his country remains mired in a trade war with the United States.

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• Thursday, April 26th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Macron enchants US Congress while questioning some of Trump's policies

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron has used his speech to the joint houses of the US Congress to denounce nationalism and isolationism as threats to global prosperity. The speech was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled attack on President Donald Trump's America First agenda.

• Saturday, January 27th 2018 - 09:39 UTC

  Trump tells Davos forum “America First”, but it does not mean America alone

  

  President Trump declared America “open for business” in a speech on Friday to global to political and business elites in Davos, Switzerland, while taking a hard line on trade and vowing to make commerce with other countries “fair and reciprocal.”

• Thursday, January 25th 2018 - 09:16 UTC

  The US tourism industry is suffering from the “Trump slump”

  

  Travel to the US is falling, a decline some in the tourism industry blame on US President Donald Trump. The number of international visitors fell by 4% in the first seven months of 2017, according to the US National Travel & Tourism Office and the trend occurred across all regions, with Africa and the Middle East reporting some of the most dramatic declines.