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US President Donald Trump.

Trump changes course again, delays tariffs on some Mexican, Canadian imports

The taxes proposed by the US president have caused a gaping wound in the decades-old North American trade partnership.

  • Christopher Rugaber

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Drill, baby, drill: US President Donald Trump’s policies are weighing on the oil price.

More than ‘a little disturbance’: Trump and OPEC are sinking the oil price

This week, OPEC+ did what Donald Trump has demanded and announced it would start increasing production, pushing oil prices down to three-year lows. Trump may get more than he bargained for.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Military delegates march ahead of the opening session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘Changes unseen in a century’: China braces for shifting global order

As a trade war with the United States begins, China wants to fire up its economy and plans to increase defence spending.

  • Lisa Visentin
Donald Trump’s escalating trade war has set off a market sell-down on Wall Street and on stock exchanges around the world.

Has the market’s Trump bet been wiped out? Maybe – or maybe not

Investors are confused whether the market sell-down in response to Donald Trump’s punitive trade policies will prompt him to limit them after all, after his Commerce secretary flagged a potential tariff compromise.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Justin Trudeau calling Donald Trump’s tariff’s a “very dumb thing”.

Trade war kicks off as Canada retaliates against Trump’s ‘very dumb’ tariffs

In a pointed barb, Trudeau said the US was starting a trade war with its closest allies at the same time as it was “appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator”.

  • Michael Koziol
Donald Trump is imposing tariffs on Chinese goods as of midnight Washington time.

China says it ‘will not flinch’ as it meets Trump’s new tariffs with its own

It took only minutes for Beijing to respond to the latest salvo in the US president’s global trade war.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, greets Melania Trump as she arrives for a family photo with US President Donald Trump, during the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France in 2019.

What’s behind Trump’s love-hate relationship with Canada

Theories include the president’s failed hotel ventures, his transactional view of the world – and a 2019 photograph that seemingly showed a dashing Justin Trudeau poised to kiss the first lady.

  • Alan Rappeport and Ian Austen
President Donald Trump

Trump pauses Ukraine military aid days after Zelensky meeting

A senior Ukrainian lawmaker said the US president’s aid freeze looked like he was trying to push Kyiv towards capitulation on Russia’s terms.

  • Michael Koziol
China and the US have been locked in an ongoing trade spat.

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
Sam Delich and Kylah Day in Territory. Netflix declined to commission a second series, despite its global success.

Could Trump’s tariffs spell disaster for Australia’s screen industry?

High-profile shows cancelled, no sign of streaming quotas and the spectre of Donald Trump have sent a chill through Australia’s film and television industry.

  • Karl Quinn

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