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Jul 07 2020
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TikTok Safety Concerns
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TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform owned by Beijing startup ByteDance, is under fire for its alleged ties to the Chinese government and weak data privacy standards.Last week, India announced a ban on Abridge NewsMay 14 2019
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U.S. prepares to slap tariffs on remaining Chinese imports, which could add levies on roughly $300 billion in additional goods
The United States and China traded blows on Monday in the latest escalation of their tariff war, unnerving Wall Street and threatening to draw American consumers into the fray for the first time.
Both nations, which just days earlier had anticipated sealing a comprehensive commercial deal, instead took steps to raise new trade barriers. In Beijing, the Chinese government announced plans
Washington PostMay 14 2019
News
Escalating Tariffs Test Investors’ Faith in U.S. Growth
Some are trimming investments in stocks and favoring cash or other assets considered safer
The sharp stock-market selloff of recent days is confronting investors with a quandary long avoided during the 10-year-old bull market: Riskier assets suddenly look very risky.
Gains in U.S. stocks have made them historically expensive relative to global equities. Economic growth remains
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 06 2021
Headline Roundup
Military Tensions Flare Between China and Taiwan
Taiwan's defense minister says that tensions between Taipei and Beijing are at their worst in more than 40 years as China increases military flights within the island’s air defense zone. Taiwanese officials say nearly 150 aircraft belonging to China's air force have entered the zone in the last four days.
The U.S. State Department called China‘s latest actions destabilizing and risky,
Washington Times USA TODAY BBC NewsAug 26 2019
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Trump claims China asked for renewed trade talks
President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that Chinese officials are prepared to return to the negotiating table, signaling there may be a path to a potential détente in his tit-for-tat trade war with Beijing.
“China called last night our top trade people and said ‘let’s get back to the table.’ They have been hurt very badly, but they understand this is the right thing to do and I have
PoliticoAug 23 2019
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As Trump Calls for Cuts, Powell Stresses Limits of Fed Policy
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, kept future interest rate cuts squarely on the table on Friday while stressing that the central bank’s powers to right the economy were limited by President Trump’s trade policies, which continue to pose risks to the economic outlook.
“While monetary policy is a powerful tool that works to support consumer spending, business investment, and
New York Times (News)Aug 15 2019
Opinion
Global turmoil Trump stirred threatens his reelection chances
President Donald Trump is showing what happens when the United States abandons its decades-long role as a guarantor of stability and instead chooses to act as an agent of global disruption.
A series of economic and political shocks are fomenting disorder across the planet and straining an international political system that Trump deliberately set out to undermine.
Stock markets
Guest Writer - LeftAug 12 2019
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Protesters shut down Hong Kong airport as China warns of ‘terrorism,’ raising fears of military crackdown
Thousands of protesters shut down Hong Kong’s international airport Monday, defying an intensifying police crackdown, as China issued ominous warnings that described the protests as “terrorism” and began massing a paramilitary force in a southern border city.
Some of the protesters who had been occupying the airport’s arrivals hall swarmed into the departures area Monday, prompting
Washington PostJul 13 2012
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Team Obama: No, We Won't Apologize for Falsely Suggesting Romney's a Felon
Actually, that's not what the Boston Globe reported, and Romney's long-standing explanation for these events has been confirmed by multiple fact-checkers, as well as contemporaneous reporting -- including stories from the Boston Globe. As we've established, the Obama campaign certainly understands the difference between titular ownership and participation in the managerial process. They
TownhallDec 16 2019
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Trump’s ‘America First’ Trade Vision Comes Into Focus on Three Fronts
President’s tactics break with predecessors’ to extract concessions, but issues with China remain unresolved
President Trump claimed a multi-front victory last week in his bid to reshape U.S. trade policy, extracting fresh commercial concessions from Mexico and China while stripping the World Trade Organization of its powers to restrain the tactics he used to secure them.
Wall Street Journal (News)