President Donald Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping would visit Washington soon amid brewing trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Xi will be coming in the “not too distant future,” Trump said Monday while attending a board meeting at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Trump has ramped up a…
It doesn’t take an economic genius to pinpoint the allure of Chinese e-commerce giants. The rapid growth of platforms like Shein, PDD Holdings’ Temu and Alibaba Group’s AliExpress was never about the quality of their products, ethical supply chains, customer service, or even US consumerism and excess. It’s always been about their ultra-low prices. As…
But Mr Trump’s most incendiary claims are reserved for China. The Communist Party, he says, “has subsidised and otherwise incentivised” Chinese firms to “export fentanyl and related precursor chemicals that are used to produce synthetic opioids sold illicitly in the United States”. China “provides support to and safe haven for” transnational criminal organisations. As a…
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday (February 1, 2025) signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, fulfilling a campaign promise but…
