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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China fires back at Trump with 34 per cent tariffs on American goods

Beijing’s response, its most comprehensive to date in the ratcheting tariff exchange, signals it has no intention of surrendering to the US president’s punitive trade measures.

  • Lisa Visentin

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French President Emmanuel Macron holds a meeting in Paris on Thursday with representatives of industries affected by the US tariffs.

‘Brutal’: Macron vows to protect Europe after US lands shock trade blow

The French president has called on EU nations to stop all investment in the United States after Donald Trump announced a 20 per cent tariff on European imports.

  • James Crisp, Nick Squires, James Rothwell and Sarah Newey
The US embassy in Beijing, where Claiborne was posted twice during her State Department career, along with a third posting in Shanghai.

US bans government staff in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

Though some US agencies already had strict rules on such relationships, a blanket “non-fraternisation” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War.

  • Dake Kang, Matthew Lee and Didi Tang
Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” are calculated by dividing the US’s trade imbalance by its imports from that country.

Trump’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ look to be a hoax. Here’s how you can tell

For weeks, the US president has insisted it would be a matter of “whatever they charge us, we charge them”. But it has become clear that isn’t what’s going on.

  • Michael Koziol
President Donald Trump unveils the reciprocal tariffs.

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much, much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump displays the signed executive order after his tariff announcement.

Five countries worst hit by Trump’s tariffs

Trump’s tariffs mean Australian exports to the US will attract a 10 per cent charge. Goods from these countries won’t get off so lightly.

  • Millie Muroi
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Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

‘No trace’: Dissident artist told his work has been removed from Hong Kong billboard

Australia-based artist Badiucao said his four-second video work was designed to test “the freedom-of-speech situation in Hong Kong”.

  • Elizabeth Flux
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This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years

A photo taken on the weekend shows just how much the world is uniting to fight back against Donald Trump’s damaging trade war.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Family trapped in rubble

Footage shows family stuck under rubble, waiting for rescue

Some survivors filmed their ordeal as they waited to be rescued, trapped in tiny pockets of air between slabs of broken concrete.

Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

Artist tests freedom of speech in Hong Kong with daring billboard work

A video of the Australia-based Chinese dissident Badiucao silently saying “you must take part in revolution” has been playing since March 28.

  • Elizabeth Flux

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/china-89a