Tag: Donald Trump

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Mass shootings: Trump says “hate has no place” but fingers point to his divisive rhetoric

  

  An under-fire President Donald Trump said on Sunday that “hate has no place” in the United States after two mass shootings left 29 dead and sparked accusations that his rhetoric was part of the problem.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Trump warns UK: drop tax proposal on US tech companies or forget a free trade deal

  

  The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has told Britain it will not get a free trade deal unless it drops a new tax proposal for major U.S. tech companies, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Friday.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:31 UTC

  Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller poisoning US/China relations

  

  President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at China for failing to curb the export of illegal fentanyl to the United States. The powerful painkiller is the primary synthetic opioid available in the US, a class of drug that was responsible for almost 32,000 overdose deaths last year.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 11:54 UTC

  Trump calls Hong Kong unrest “riots” and suggests it's an issue between HK and Beijing

  

  President Donald Trump has labelled recent protests in Hong Kong as “riots”, adopting the language used by Chinese authorities and suggesting that the United States would stay out of an issue that was “between Hong Kong and China”.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 07:30 UTC

  China bows to fight back Trump's tariffs: “if they want to fight, then we will fight”

  

  China on Friday vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to slap 10% tariffs on the remaining US$300 billion in Chinese imports, a move that ended a month-long trade truce.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  US business lobbies warn extra tariffs will hurt American consumers

  

  President Donald Trump's threat to impose 10% tariffs on the remaining US$300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 1 will hurt consumer purchases, raise prices further and limit hiring, four large retail trade groups warned on Thursday.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Trump slaps additional 10% punitive tariff on US$ 300 billion of Chinese goods

  

  President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he will hit China with punitive tariffs on another US$300 billion in goods, escalating the trade war after accusing Beijing of reneging on more promises.

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Trump declares Brazil a trusted major non-NATO ally of the US

  

  President Donald Trump on Wednesday boosted Brazil's status as a US military ally, easing the path for the Latin American giant to buy more sophisticated weaponry. In a notice sent to the State Department, Trump said, “I hereby designate the Federative Republic of Brazil as a major Non-NATO Ally of the United States,” referring to the powerful North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Trump after a trade deal with Brazil, but Brasilia says any tariffs agreements must include Mercosur members

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will pursue a U.S. trade agreement with Brazil, suggesting a friendly relationship with President Jair Bolsonaro could help lower trade barriers between the two biggest economies in the Americas.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Maduro and Guaidó desperate: Venezuela on the verge of losing Citgo to an arbitration award

  

  Venezuela could lose its largest U.S. asset after a court allowed a Canadian gold miner to seize shares of Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s parent to satisfy an arbitration award.