Updated May 14, 2026, 11:51 a.m. ET President Donald Trump is in China for a packed two-day trip, including one-on-ones with President Xi Jinping, in the first U.S. state visit to China in nearly a decade. In November, Trump announced he had accepted an invitation to visit China in April, but that was delayed as…
Updated May 14, 2026, 11:58 a.m. ET WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump got a grand welcome in Tiananmen Square from Chinese President Xi Jinping that included a red carpet arrival, boisterous flower-and-flag-waving schoolchildren and a 21-gun salute, as he officially began a two-day visit to Beijing. “That was an honor like few I’ve ever seen…
Updated May 13, 2026, 11:55 a.m. ET President Donald Trump has landed in China for a discussion with the country’s president, bringing with him over 10 U.S. business leaders and plans to discuss China-U.S. relations, world peace, and development. According to Trump, he is in China for an “incredible gathering of the world’s greatest businessmen/women”…
May 5, 2026, 5:08 a.m. ET WASHINGTON – U.S. flagmakers say that half the star-spangled banners sold in this country are made in China, so the manufacturers are urging the Trump administration to impose huge new tariffs on imports rather than wave a white flag after the Supreme Courtoverturned his emergency tariffs. “The American flag,…
Updated April 29, 2026, 7:06 p.m. ET Washington — Two emerging leaders on Capitol Hill are teaming up for a bipartisan push to keep Chinese cars and trucks out of the United States. Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio introduced a bill Wednesday to solidify barriers…
Updated April 8, 2026, 8:32 a.m. ET China and Russia on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the measure biased against Iran, while Washington’s ambassador to the world body called on “responsible nations” to join the U.S. in securing the waterway….
Updated April 8, 2026, 12:44 p.m. ET A knot of defiant nations − three of them talked off a geopolitical cliff’s edge at the eleventh hour. As Israel, Iran and the United States stood on the precipice of escalating a volatile war, China and Pakistan − with sharply different motives − emerged from the…
March 19, 2026, 8:53 a.m. ET Beijing — China has arrested seven people and subjected 12 more to “criminal compulsory measures” in a campaign targeting traffickers in fentanyl precursor chemicals, state media said on Thursday, following pressure from the United States. China’s first wide-publication in years of legal action that has led to the arrests…
March 3, 2026, 10:56 a.m. ET Recently, the head of antitrust for the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, Gail Slater, resigned from her post. Per reports, this stemmed in large part from tension with Attorney General Pam Bondi, who grew frustrated with Slater’s insistence on blocking a merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprises, or HPE, and…
March 2, 2026, 1:07 p.m. ET China’s foreign ministry said it was not alerted ahead of time of Israel and United States’ plan to strike parts of Iran over the weekend. The attack has killed over 500 people in Iran, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dozens of top officials and a Chinese citizen as tensions…