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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will head to Malaysia on Wednesday to meet with Chinese officials about what he called "incredibly aggressive" and "disproportionate" measures by Beijing to curb exports of rare earth minerals.
Earlier this month, President Trump threatened to impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China starting next month.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday about tariffs imposed on China, Trump noted that Beijing was paying a ‘tremendous’ amount of money in tariffs, and ‘they [would] probably like to have it be less’.
Inside the U.S. administration, opinions are divided. Some officials support a more measured approach, while others push for aggressive action in response to China’s expanded rare earth export restrictions.
China’s economy expanded at 4.8 percent in the third quarter—the slowest rate in a year—according to data released on Monday by its National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), as ongoing trade tensions with the United States continue to weigh on growth.
Xi Jinping seems to believe that only his continued rule can secure China’s rise. But as he ages, choosing a successor will become riskier and more difficult.
There are 300 children in China waiting to come home and Trump is "the only one that can make this happen at this point."
China unseated the U.S. as Germany’s top trading partner, according to data from the first eight months of the year. ”There is no question that U.S. tariff and trade policy is an important reason for the decline in sales,
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te has pledged to accelerate the building of a “T-Dome” air defense system in the face of the threat from China.
On the 12th of February 1912 Puyi, China’s Last Emperor, abdicated. China now commenced into uncharted political territory: it became a republic. One day after Puyi’s abdication, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, provisional president of the Chinese republic,
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Jamieson Greer Reportedly Calls China's Rare Earth Controls ‘Incredibly Aggressive’
During an interview with CNBC, Greer remained non-committal about the meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping. ・Greer criticized China’s rare earth export controls,