Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. Panama is weighing whether to cancel its contract with the Hong Kong-based company that operates ports near the Panama Canal, according to people with knowledge of the situation, a potential concession to defuse President Donald Trump’s threats about countering China’s influence around…
US President-elect Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by telephone on Friday, China’s official Xinhua reportedBloomberg Terminal, a pre-inauguration conversation that could set the tone for relations between the world’s two largest economies and main geopolitical rivals. The report by the state-run news agency didn’t provide details. Trump’s transition team didn’t immediately respond…
Hi this is Philip Glamann in Beijing, where pessimism about the future of China-US ties is mounting. One big reason for that is President-elect Donald Trump picked Marco Rubio as his secretary of state this week. Rubio has made clear his distaste for the ruling Communist Party, calling for the US to get much tougher…
US-China relations are shaping up to be as adversarial as expected, with President-elect Donald Trump poised to appoint two well-known China hawks for key roles as he starts to form for his “America First” cabinet. Senator Marco Rubio, who has taken a particularly aggressive approach to China’s economic rise and is one of several US…