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The US in brief: America’s agrees to a trade truce with China

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US and China have reached a framework agreement on trade ahead of Trump-Xi meeting. Here’s what we know

US and Chinese officials have reached a framework agreement, averting a potentially ruinous 157% tariff on Chinese goods while paving the way for a potential trade deal to be discussed between ... Read More

Will Trump’s Tariff Deal Tilt the Playing Field Back Toward China?

The president’s trade truce with China has lowered U.S. tariffs to a level that could pause a longer-term effort to reduce America’s dependence on Beijing. Read More

US and China say a trade deal is drawing closer as Trump and Xi ready for a high-stakes meeting

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- A trade deal between the United States and China is drawing closer, officials from the world’s two largest economies said Sunday as they reached an initial consensus for ... Read More

China's economic growth slows as trade tensions with US flare up

China's economic growth slowed in the three months to the end of September as trade tensions with the US flared up. The world's second-largest economy grew by 4.8% compared to the same period in 2024, ... Read More

Roiled by purges and buffeted by US frictions, China’s leadership meets to chart country’s rise

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is convening a key political meeting this week where he will push forward his next five-year strategy to strengthen the world’s second-largest economy in the face of mounting ... Read More

US, China seek to avoid trade war escalation, salvage Trump-Xi meeting in Malaysia talks

Economic officials from both countries are working to ensure a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping after the U.S. threatened new tariffs on Chinese goods in retaliation for China's expanded ... Read More

Trump’s Trade War With China Catches the World in Its Crossfire

Tariffs and other restrictions between the United States and China are reverberating in unpredictable ways. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen writes about the global economy from London. One of the ... Read More

China’s Economy Expands at Slowest Pace in a Year

SINGAPORE—China said economic momentum decelerated to its slowest pace in a year, putting Beijing on alert in the midst of hardball trade negotiations with the U.S. China said its gross domestic ... Read More

China’s rare-earths power move jolted Trump but was years in the making

China is wielding its most potent tool of economic coercion — its overwhelming dominance of the rare earths needed to make everything from laptops to jet engines — in an attempt to extract trade ... Read More