By Jenny Leonard, Saleha Mohsin and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) — Some U.S. negotiators are concerned that China is pushing back against American demands in trade talks as progress slows toward a deal that could give President Donald Trump a boost for his 2020 reelection bid, according to people...
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Trump Administration’s Five-Year Offshore Drilling Plan Expected ‘In Coming Weeks’
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s revised five-year program to expand offshore drilling in most federal waters will be released “in the coming weeks,” an Interior Department official said on Wednesday, after months of opposition from coastal state...
President Trump Signs Order to Help Veterans Transition Into U.S. Merchant Marine
U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Monday supporting transition of active duty service members and veterans into the United States Merchant Marine. Under the order, it will be the policy of the United States to support practices and programs ensuring that members of the...
U.S., China Said Near Deal That Could End Most U.S. Tariffs
By Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China are close to a trade deal that could lift most or all U.S. tariffs as long as Beijing follows through on pledges ranging from better protecting intellectual-property rights to buying a significant amount of American products, two people familiar...
Panel: Trade Tensions May Complicate Delicate Security Environment in Indo-Pacific
Washington’s simmering trade war with and tariffs against China are creating some unintended consequences for the U.S. military and its relationships with partners in the Pacific, a panel said today.
Speaking Thursday at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., Yuki Tatsumi, co-director of the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, said President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum and threats to impose them on automobiles have made Japan and China “kind of strange...