Trade deals
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- Inside China
Red alert: Xi’s plan to protect China from the worst of Trump
China’s leaders meet this week in Beijing. Top of mind will be the threat posed by the US president.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
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- Trade
‘We will respond strongly’: Allies workshop how to talk back to Trump on tariffs
Canada’s visiting trade minister said Australia and Canada should forcefully argue the case for free trade as Donald Trump upends the global trading system.
- Matthew Knott
- Exclusive
- Trade wars
‘Mayhem’: Trump tariff threat forces Australia to pause big tech levy
The Albanese government has decided to go slow on a scheme to hit digital platforms if they refuse to pay local media outlets for news articles.
- Paul Sakkal and David Crowe
- Analysis
- Trade wars
We’ll know Trump’s tariff war is serious when he hits Big Macs
Despite the worries about Trump’s tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium, the real concern is if he widens his trade war to burgers.
- Shane Wright
Trump tariff warrior says Australian ‘China-owned’ companies are flooding US market. It’s not true
A top adviser to the US president has launched an extraordinary attack on Australian aluminium exporters, making a claim rejected by independent economists – and US trade data.
- David Crowe and Michael Koziol
- Exclusive
- Trade
What did Australia promise? Inside the room where Trump and Morrison talked tariffs
Australian officials scrambled when they heard Trump was bringing some of his top trade advisers to dinner with Morrison. They knew the trade warriors had an axe to grind.
- David Crowe and Michael Koziol
- Updated
- US politics
Rupert Murdoch in Oval Office as Trump shakes up trade ties with Mexico, Canada
The US president paused tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports and praised the “legendary” media mogul even as he lashed Murdoch’s newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
- Michael Koziol
Have sanctions hurt Putin’s war machine? It’s not that simple
As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, questions about the effectiveness of sanctions on Russia and their future will come under renewed scrutiny.
- Patricia Cohen
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump is about to shoot himself in the foot with his favourite weapon
If the president-elect proceeds with tariffs on the United States’ three biggest trade partners, it would damage the US economy.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
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