Xi Jinping
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- Trade wars
Why Typhoid Trump and COVID are so similar
Given the moveable feast that is Donald Trump’s trade policy, it is impossible to determine if the world is in for a short-lived shock or a case of long COVID.
- Elizabeth Knight
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- Opinion
- Aviation
China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes
China has told its domestic airlines not to order Boeing planes or US parts. That will hurt America’s biggest exporter of manufactured goods and could damage China’s own aviation ambitions.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Analysis
- China relations
Xi’s neighbourly charm offensive touches a raw nerve for Trump
Donald Trump has already hit out at Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam, accusing the two sides of “trying to figure out, ‘How do we screw the United States of America?’ ”
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump’s gut tells him he’s got China on the ropes. He couldn’t be more wrong
Donald Trump believes his tariff folly will isolate its superpower adversary. But it will be the US, not China, that could find itself outside the tent.
- Peter Hartcher
- Opinion
- Global economy
GFC or UFC? This economic prize-fight has us all on the edge of our seats
Economics is no longer boring. Trump’s decision to pick a fight with China is a heavyweight bout for the ages.
- Parnell Palme McGuinness
- Updated
- Trade wars
China says US stands to become ‘a joke in the history of the world economy’
After lifting tariffs on US goods again, to 125 per cent, China’s Finance Ministry signalled Beijing would no longer go tit-for-tat with the Trump administration.
- Lisa Visentin and Michael Koziol
- Analysis
- Trade wars
Xi holds more cards than Trump in trade showdown
With the two leaders standing eyeball to eyeball as global markets whipsaw around them, who will blink?
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Trade wars
‘Mad king’ Trump was facing a financial crisis, so he capitulated
There were desperate efforts from White House staff to spin Trump’s backdown as the latest example of his deal-making genius. But surprisingly, the man himself told the truth.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
China whacks US with extra 50 per cent tariff as trade war escalates
Analysts believe a deal between the world’s two biggest economies is now unlikely in the short term because it would require major concessions.
- Lisa Visentin
- Analysis
- China relations
In this game of tariff chicken, China has little to lose
Long gone are the heady days of January, when Donald Trump and Xi Jinping spoke of solving the world’s problems together.
- Lisa Visentin
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