Tag: Donald Trump

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 19:22 UTC

  Consensus or Chaos in the G20 Communiqué?

  

  By Scott Squires (*)“This article was originally published on the Argentina newsletter The Essential, by The Bubble News Inc. on November 29, 2018”. Ahead of any diplomatic summit, staffers, organizers and aides put in the countless hours of thankless grunt work necessary to make international diplomacy happen.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 17:53 UTC

  No talks with Putin at G-20 over Crimea tensions, says Trump enroute to Argentina

  

  US President Donald Trump Thursday shocked the world as he announced he would not be meeting one-on-one with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin during the G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires due to the escalating military crisis in Crimea.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

  World leaders fly to Buenos Aires for G20, but little consensus for a final declaration

  

  United States President Donald Trump jets into Argentina on Thursday for a G20 summit, keen to do battle with China on trade and sharpening his rhetoric against Russia over Ukraine. The weekend summit is confronted with increasingly dire warnings, by the International Monetary Fund among others, of the potential harm faced by the world economy from Trump's trade wars.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  Trump favors imposing tariffs to protect US auto industry; EU ready to react with retaliation tariffs

  

  President Donald Trump on Wednesday indicated he favours imposing import tariffs to protect the US auto industry, which was rocked by this week's announcement of job cuts at General Motors. In two tweets, the president said that extending tariffs already in place for foreign-built small trucks to the car sector would help domestic manufacturers.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Trump open to a deal with China on certain conditions, says advisor Kudlow

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump is open to reaching a deal on U.S.-China trade irritants over dinner on Saturday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping but is ready to hike tariffs on Chinese imports if there is no breakthrough, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  Buenos Aires sealed off for G20; anarchists and anti capitalists pledge to stage protests

  

  Argentine authorities say that Buenos Aires will be an armored city when world leaders arrive for this week's G-20 summit. But security failures that marred a football championship and deeper unrest over an economic austerity program are raising concerns about the country's ability to ensure safety.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  Trump downplays a trade deal with China ahead of Saturday's meeting with Xi in Buenos Aires

  

  United States president Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet on Saturday in Argentina on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, a U.S. media outlet reported on Monday. The two leaders will meet a day after the United States, Mexico and Canada sign a new trilateral trade agreement, the online edition of Inside U.S. Trade said.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Trump not happy with GM's decision to cut 14.000 jobs and close several plants

  

  President Donald Trump does not like the news that General Motors would close several plants and cut more some 14,000 jobs. Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn on Monday afternoon, Trump said he spoke with CEO Mary Barra and told her he wasn't happy with the decision. “I told her I'm not happy about it,” Trump told reporters.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 10:39 UTC

  Argentina targets a strong global stability message at the G20 leaders' summit

  

  With international tensions on trade set to come to a head at the Group of 20 Leaders Summit next weekend, Argentina is hoping to find agreement on improving global stability, even if deep disagreements remain. Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie said the November 30-December 1 meeting in Buenos Aires should stress the importance of trade itself, at a time that the former consensus against protectionism breaks down.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:22 UTC

  Central American migrants storm US border; Mexico will deport those violently trying to cross

  

  The U.S.-Mexico border at the San Isidro Port of Entry was closed in both directions for more than five hours on Sunday after hundreds of migrants rushed the area, prompting federal authorities to launch tear gas in an apparent attempt to get the group to disperse.