Budget Battles
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Trump Ratchets Up His Tariff Threats
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Trump Picks Project 2025 Architect to Oversee Budget
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Trump Taps Hedge Fund Mogul for Treasury Secretary
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Trump Picks a New Attorney General Nominee After Gaetz Withdraws
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Musk and Ramaswamy Outline Plan to Slash Federal Workforce
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
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Johnson Signals Plan for Looming Shutdown Deadline
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A Trillion Dollar Plan to Rebuild the World Makes China the New Global Leader
While most of the world wonders nervously what’s next from the Trump White House, the confident China President Xi Jinping is shifting his bid for global leadership into a full-court press.
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China Fires Up a Massive Floating Solar Farm
By Irina Slav, Oilprice.comImages of the Beijing smog and millions of people wearing masks to be able to breathe are among the more dramatic depictions of air pollution caused by excessive industrialization. Now that China is...
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Why China, Not OPEC, Will Make or Break the Price of Oil This Year
By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.comThe OPEC deal will lead to an ongoing tightening of the crude oil market, putting a floor beneath crude prices in the $50s per barrel in the second half of 2017, according to Helima Croft of RBC...
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Are China’s Hidden Liabilities Behind Moody’s Ratings Downgrade?
Concerns about China’s “massive debt burden” and slowing economy are causing new concerns after Moody’s Investor Services sounded a full-blown alarm this week downgrading China’s credit rating on...
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Why China May Be Headed for a Massive Bank Bailout
By John Ruwitch and Yawen Chen, ReutersMoody's Investors Service downgraded China's credit ratings on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 30 years, saying it expects the financial strength of the economy will erode in coming years as...
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As the US Pulls Back, China Boosts Global Trade on a New Silk Road
By Ben Blanchard and Sue-Lin Wong, ReutersChinese President Xi Jinping and 29 other heads of state on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to build an open economy and ensure free and inclusive trade, under the ambitious Belt and Road...
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Trump Projects Confidence As China Meeting Looms
By Rob GarverLess than a week before he sits down with the president of China for what will be his most complex and challenging foreign negotiation since taking office, President Trump gave an interview to The...
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Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future
By Evelyn ChengElon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...
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Tillerson’s Asia Trip Could Signal the End US Soft Diplomacy
Tillerson’s tour is an opening round in an extended process. But early signals indicate that Washington risks serious damage to important relationships across the Pacific—notably with China and South...
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Trump to Finally Crack Down on China's Hacks, Theft and Lies at US Expense
By Liz PeekLong coddled by establishment Foggy Bottom types and by U.S. corporations salivating over China’s burgeoning markets, Beijing has met little resistance as it has cyber attacked U.S. corporate and...
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Trump’s Vow to Abandon the TPP Hands China a Huge Victory
By Rob GarverThe move will no doubt please many Americans of both parties, who have come to see free trade deals as job killers because they make it easier for US companies to shift production overseas. Free...
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China Will Own New Year’s Eve in Times Square
By Ciro ScottiChina is about to own New Year’s Eve in New York. A Chinese billionaire is buying Dick Clark Productions , which owns Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve as well as other big-name properties such as...
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Everyone's Ignoring This Huge Threat to the Global Economy
By Desmond LachmanA striking feature of a US election campaign focused on the supposed ills of globalization is how little attention is being drawn to Germany’s extraordinarily large external current account surplus...
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Why Clinton’s China Policy Puts More at Risk than Trump’s
The two confirmed presidential candidates we’ll have by the end of this week have little in common, except they’re both wealthy New Yorkers. Among the many differences between Hillary Clinton and...
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The Foreign Country That Trusts Trump the Most
By Rob Garverit’s more than a little odd that when the Pew Research Center asked people around the world how much confidence they have in Donald Trump “to do the right thing regarding world affairs” if he is...