Tag: China trade

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Trump escalates the trade war with China imposing 10% tariffs on US$ 200bn imports

  

  United States president Donald Trump escalated his trade war with Beijing, imposing 10% tariffs on about US$ 200 billion worth of imports in a move one senior Chinese regulator said “poisoned” the atmosphere for negotiations.

• Thursday, February 8th 2018 - 09:26 UTC

  China confirms support for Venezuela and lashes out at “irresponsible” US

  

  China’s support for Venezuela has benefited ordinary people and been broadly welcomed, the foreign ministry said after the U.S. Treasury accused China of aiding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government with murky oil-for-loan investments.