Good morning. Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit kicks off today in Washington, D.C. and there are quite a few notable tech folk on the agenda. Among them: Best Buy’s Corie Barry, Palantir’s Shannon Clark, Microsoft’s Amy Coleman, Logitech’s Hanneke Faber, IBM’s Radha Iyengar Plumb, Workday’s Emma Chalwin, ServiceNow’s Gina Mastantuono, Airbnb’s Ellie Mertz, DoorDash’s Tia…
President Donald Trump moved to calm fears of an escalating trade war with Beijing on Sunday after he threatened to impose 100% tariffs on China’s imports in response to the nation’s export curbs on rare earth minerals. Trump’s new tariffs on China would amount to a big increase over the current average 55% levy. In a post…
(AI image generated using ChatGPT) US President Donald Trump struck a markedly softer tone on China on Sunday, referring to President Xi Jinping as “highly respected” and insisting the United States wants to “help” China, not hurt it, despite escalating tensions over rare earths and looming tariffs. “Don’t worry about China, it will all be…
Vice President JD Vance called on Beijing to “choose the path of reason” in the latest spiraling trade fight between the US and China, claiming that President Donald Trump has more leverage. “It’s going to be a delicate dance, and a lot of it is going to depend on how the Chinese respond,” Vance said…
China has said it will pursue closer ties with North Korea, following a reignition of trade tensions with the U.S. On Saturday, the Chinese government announced that it is willing to work with North Korea to “explore the potential for practical cooperation and add more impetus to the development and construction of the two countries,”…
China issued a blunt warning to Washington after President Donald Trump threatened a new round of 100% tariffs, stating that it prefers diplomacy over confrontation but will not hesitate to retaliate if provoked. This back-and-forth tariff warning threatens to derail a possible meeting between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping and end a truce in…
President Donald Trump’s additional 100% tariff on China erased $2 trillion from the stock market on Friday and possibly couldn’t have come at a worse time. A potentially renewed trade war risks a resurgence of uncertainty in the market, Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok said Saturday on Fox Business, all while fears of…
Markets are bracing for more drama when trading resumes Monday, after President Trump slapped 100% tariffs on Chinese imports and called out “sinister and hostile” moves by China to try to corner the market on rare earth minerals. Trump tore into China’s new export controls Friday, announcing new tariffs “over and above” existing U.S. levies…
Beijing’s rare-earth bombshell – On October 9, 2025, China dramatically expanded export controls on critical rare earth metals, adding five more elements (holmium, erbium, thulium, europium, ytterbium) to an export-restricted list that already included seven others [1] [2]. In total, 12 of the 17 rare-earth elements are now under Chinese export curbs [3]. Beijing also imposed new licensing requirements on dozens of…
Residents of China’s capital city, Beijing, on Saturday showed indifference and defiance about United States President Donald Trump’s recent decision to impose harsh new tariffs on the country, AFP reported. On Friday, Trump unexpectedly announced that the United States would impose an extra 100 percent tariff on all imports from China starting from November 1,…