Beijing entered the trade war convinced that its manufacturing dominance and control over critical minerals would force Washington to blink first. Instead, the confrontation exposed structural weaknesses at home,

Businesses and officials faced a year of disruption – and in some cases, resilience – as tariffs and export controls roiled global markets.

As the trade dispute showed, China remains a formidable rival—and is determined to expand its already substantial advantages.

The administration should hasten this realignment by doing more diplomatically to create a united anti-China trade bloc, conditioning preferential tariffs on blocking Chinese exports and levying

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in South Korea yesterday to strike a deal to end the trade war between their two nations. Instead, China showed that it had learned from its rival how to use its economic heft as a weapon. The two most powerful men in the ...

American farmers may never regain the market share lost to rivals in Brazil and elsewhere Instead of buying soybeans from the U.S., China has turned to other sources such as Brazil to meet its needs. China has made a pledge to buy U.S. soybeans over the ...

US$11 billion will go to row crop farmers, whilst the remaining US$1 billion will be held back for fruits, vegetables and other crops.

Delayed trade data has started to flow out from the US Census Bureau. More than a month behind schedule, the latest data on trade between the US and China is for September 2025.

BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has targeted top economic rival China with a cascade of tariffs on imports worth billions of dollars as he tries to narrow a trade deficit, bring home lost manufacturing and cripple the fentanyl trade.

Instead of buying soybeans from the U.S., China has turned to other sources such as Brazil to meet its needs. China has made a pledge to buy U.S. soybeans over the next few years, fueling hope for farmers who have been caught in the middle of a trade war ...