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04/24/25 China has left President Trump twisting in the wind on tariffs, declaring it is not engaged in any negotiation with the U.S. as the tariffs take a political and economic toll on Washington. Trump and the White House insist the U.S. and China are making progress toward a deal, but...

April 23, 2025 US President Donald Trump has signaled a potential U-turn on his trade war with China amid continued market volatility, saying the high tariffs on Chinese goods will “come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.” Trump’s remarks, made at a White House news event Tuesday...

President Trump should tell Neocons to go jump in a lake. John Leake APR 18, 2025 For decades, U.S. foreign policy wonks such as Paul Wolfowitz, Raymond Tanter, Douglas Feith, and Richard Perle, argued that U.S. military power could reshape the Middle East, somehow transforming it from the...

Apr 21, 2025 The U.S.-China trade war took another turn toward escalation on Monday as China threatened to retaliate against countries which make trade deals with the United States that would hurt Beijing’s interests. “Appeasement cannot bring peace, and compromise cannot earn one respect,” a...

Gilbert Doctorow April 19, 2025 The past couple of days have brought wildly contradictory reports from the Trump administration on progress in its initiative to achieve a peace accord ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Either they are progressing well and close to success, as Vice President J.D...

Franco Terrazzano 2025/04/19 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is criticizing Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney’s budget plan for adding another $225 billion to the debt. “Carney plans to borrow even more money than the Trudeau government planned to borrow,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal...

18 April 2025 Larry C. Johnson Marco Rubio announced: if there are no signs of peace in the coming days, the United States will stop playing mediator between Russia and Ukraine. Marco was not offering his personal opinion… he was delivering a message approved by Donald Trump. The United States...

Comments signal frustration over lack of progress in settling geopolitical challenges Apr 18, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday "we will take a pass" on trying to resolve the war in Ukraine if either Russia or Ukraine makes it too difficult to end the conflict. Trump told...

The administration’s theory of the case is that tariff deals with other countries will isolate China — and urge them to come to the table. 04/16/2025 President Donald Trump wants Chinese leader Xi Jinping to call. Making trade deals with China’s neighbors is part of a broader White House...

15 April, 2025 Synopsis Tensions escalate between the US and China over trade. A potential 245% tariff looms. China's Foreign Ministry responds with a call for collaboration. They emphasize removing barriers, not erecting walls. The US insists China must negotiate. Discussions are underway with...

APR 12, 2025 Top money-and-politics expert Thomas Ferguson breaks down the real drivers of Trump’s aggressive tariff agenda, from big crypto plans to a new world order emerging. In a series of high-level discussions in Rome and Berlin, Thomas Ferguson—a leading authority on money and...

DAVID HAGGITH APR 12, 2025 This Deeper Dive will lay out the fault lines that have appeared throughout the US economy. They reveal major tectonic plates that are shifting global economics, which I’ll present with hard facts, not just conjecture to show what is erupting beneath the surface and...

Ted Galen Carpenter April 11, 2025 President Trump should avoid a snare of his own making and extricate the United States from the war between Russia and Ukraine. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly indicated that he expected the war between Ukraine and Russia to end...

Germany is contemplating repatriating its 1,200 metric tons of gold stored at the New York Federal Reserve, valued at $96 billion, amid heightened trade tensions sparked by US tariffs. The decision follows US President Trump's recent imposition of tariffs on European goods. Apr 10, 2025 Amid...

NG HAN GUAN April 11, 2025 YIWU, China (AP) — The trade war between the world’s two largest economies is escalating as China on Friday slapped a 125% tariff on U.S. goods in response to President Donald Trump’s 145% tariff on Chinese products. Caught in the crosshairs are businesses that are...

April 09, 2025 In a move that stunned traders, analysts and policymakers alike, China has just announced a complete halt on all liquefied natural gas imports from the United States. A decision made abruptly with no prior indication, no phased reduction and no explanation beyond a terse...

Ukrainian authorities are interrogating 2 Chinese soldiers taken prisoner in the Donetsk region earlier this week. APRIL 10, 2025 As Ukraine continues to interrogate two Chinese citizens that its forces captured in the Donetsk region earlier this week, Kyiv said it has identified even more...

Apr 7th, 2025 Bypassing the US-dominated infrastructure for global trade, the People’s Bank of China reportedly announced connecting 10 ASEAN and Middle Eastern nations, mitigating the need for the US-based SWIFT system for international trade in these regions. The Digital Yuan, called Digital...

SIMPLICIUS APR 03, 2025 The grand new American reawakening has come, Trump announced with his inaugural ‘Day of Liberation’—a Declaration of Economic Independence: Experts the world over are now butting heads over what this epochal ‘reciprocal tariffs’ package will mean for the world...

April 7, 2025 President Trump threatened additional tariffs on China and markets bounced around amid the new US tariff policy that is set to fully roll out on Wednesday. Trump posted that "if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow...